Interview of NWA employee re Boeing aft airstair decal
This copy: Part 72 p. 353Also filed at Part 71 p. 324 (primary) · Part 42 p. 180 · Part 42 p. 181
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Interview of Northwest Orient employee re Boeing emergency exit handle decal
Interviewed 1 December 1978Dictated 4 December 1978Transcribed 6 December 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-72:353-353 Document: FD-302 interview of Northwest Orient employee re Boeing emergency exit handle decal Id: Cooper-Part-72:353-353 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A353-353 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 72 p. 353 (DB Cooper-31263), FD-302 interview, interviewed 1 Dec 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A353-353
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 12/6/78
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[REDACTED], Northwest Orient Airlines, Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport, advised as follows:
After having been displayed the decal of Boeing Aircraft Company noting the emergency exit handle on the aft airstair, [REDACTED] advised that the decal probably came off when the stairs were lowered due to the change in air pressure. He recalled that about two days after the hijacking by D. B. COOPER, he and [REDACTED] took the same aircraft used by COOPER in order to determine whether or not there was a change in pressure at the time he parachuted from the aircraft. [REDACTED] recalls that he and [REDACTED] flew out over the ocean and ran their theory and returned to Seattle, Washington. He noted after returning to Seattle, that decals had come off the aircraft and surmised that the decal located near Castle Rock, Washington, would have come off in a similar fashion. After viewing the maps plotting the path taken by COOPER which were located in the office of [REDACTED], the [REDACTED] stated that Castle Rock, Washington, is rather close to the path taken by COOPER. He added that if indeed the decal came from the same aircraft used by COOPER, it would have floated about in the air currents much like a leaf and could have found its way near Castle Rock.
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Interviewed on 12/1/78 at Minneapolis, Minnesota File # MP-164-73
by [REDACTED] Date dictated 12/4/78
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DB Cooper-31263
Serials: MP-164-73