Citizen's account of monitoring Northwest Flight 305 radio transmissions from Wilsonville, Oregon
Document date 24 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-88:239-240
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-88:239-240 Document: Citizen's account of monitoring Northwest Flight 305 radio transmissions from Wilsonville, Oregon Id: Cooper-Part-88:239-240 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-88%3A239-240 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 88 pp. 239–240 (DB Cooper-39166–39167), Report, dated 24 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-88%3A239-240
MESSAGES FROM FLIGHT 305 RECIEVED ON A 9 TRANSISTER PORTABLE RADIO RECIEVER [REDACTED] EXCEPT FOR MESSAGE RECIEVED AT 9:45 P.M. WHICH WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE.
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FREQUENCY MESSAGES RECIEVED WAS BETWEEN 130 AND 135 MHZ(A-M) I HEARD WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE LOCAL PORTLAND AIRPORT INSTRUCTING FLIGHT 305 THAT HE COULD USE RADIO FREQUENCY AND FOR OTHER AIR CRAFT TO STAND BY. IT MIGHT BE THAT THAT MESSAGES MIGHT BE TAPED AT LOCAL PORTLAND AIRPORT. LATER FLIGHT 305 RELINQISHED RADIO FREQENCY AND OTHER AIR CRAFT WERE HEARD
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COPIED MESSAGES [STRIKETHROUGH CHARACTERS] BY WRITER ARE PARTIAL AND IN NO WAY SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO BE 100 PER-CENT ACCURATE.
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[REDACTED] WILSONVILLE, OREGON PHONE: [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-39166
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b6 b7C
WEDNESDAY, 11/24/71 [handwritten: 305]
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SUBJECT: CONVERSATIONS FROM NORTHWEST FLIGHT [strikethrough: 503] [handwritten: 305] AND ------ FREQUENCY REC[E]IVED ON: 130 TO 135 MHZ RANGE LOCATION OF RECIEVED RADIO MESSAGES; b6 b7C [redacted/struck text]XX WILSONVILLE, OREGON.
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TIME: ABOUT 8:00 P.M. PILOT/FLIGHT NORTHWEST [strikethrough: 503] [handwritten: 305], AND UNKNOWN 2ND PARTY. PILOT: "VICTOR 23, DME 1,000, FUEL ABOARD 4,000,- -PLANE OFF 0336"
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TIME: 8:28 P.M. PILOT TALKING TO UNKNOWN 2ND PARTY. "STEWARDESS TALKING TO----?-------" PILOT FURTHER SAID, " RENO LOOKS GOOD"
------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECOND TIME: PILOT TALKING TO UNKNOWN [redacted] PARTY. " AT EUGENE FORTEX---FREQENCY 134.4---MEDFORD GATE 50, MEDFORD, REDBLUFF AND RENO.
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TIME: ABOUT 9:45 A.M. [handwritten: ?] [handwritten: 305] UNKNOWN AIRCRAFTS PILOT ( NOT FLIGHT [strikethrough: 503] )"THAT HE WOULD RELAY [handwritten: *] MESSAGE TO FLIGHT [strikethrough: 503]." 2ND PARTY COULDN'T BE HEARD WELL ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND. [handwritten: 305]
[handwritten: 305] [handwritten: 503] UNKNOWN PILOT GIVING INSTRUCTIONS ( VIA RELAY ) TO FLIGHT [strikethrough: 503] SAID, "YOUR OFFICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS INSTRUCTED YOU TO CLIMB TO 11,000 FEET.
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10:10 P.M. UNKNOWN AIRCRAFTS PILOT (NOT [strikethrough: 505] [handwritten: 305]) TALKING TO UNKNOWN SECOND PARTY STATED, " FLIGHT [strikethrough: 50]5 ORDERED TO 11,000 FEET, NOT SURE IF MAN IS ABOARD, (STOPPING AT RENO THAN TO MEXICO. [handwritten: 305]
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DB Cooper-39167