Las Vegas to Director, Portland and Seattle re Flight 305 landing at Reno
Document date 25 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:057-058 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Director, Portland and Seattle re Flight 305 landing at Reno Id: Cooper-Part-90:057-058 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A057-058 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 90 pp. 57–58 (DB Cooper-40040–40041), Teletype, dated 25 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-2 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A057-058
NR 025 LV PLAIN 7:45 AM URGENT 11/25/71 MJH TO DIRECTOR PORTLAND SEATTLE FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60)
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UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWESTERN AIRLINES SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE, PORTLAND, OREGON. CAA - HIJACKING.
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CAPTIONED FLIGHT ARRIVED RENO, NEVADA, ELEVEN ZERO ONE PM PST, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE. NORTHWESTERN AIRLINE OFFICIALS FROM MINNEAPOLIS HAD PREVIOUSLY REQUESTED THAT PLANE BE ALLOWED TO LAND WITH NO POLICE OFFICIALS OR POLICE TYPE VEHICLES IN VICINITY. NORTHWESTERN ALSO REQUESTED UNITED AIRLINES, RENO, NEVADA, HANDLE ALL REFUELING AND STATION FUNCTIONS. CAPT. OF FLIGHT RADIOED REQUEST PRIOR TO LANDING THAT PLANE BE APPROACHED ONLY WHEN REQUESTED BY UNMARKED CAR OCCUPIED BY UNITED AIRLINE OFFICAL AND ONE OTHER INDIVIDUAL. SAC LAS VEGAS WITH UNITED AIRLINE OFFICAL. FUEL TRUCKS ON STANDBY TO LOAD APPROX. FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND LBS. FUEL. PILOT FURTHER INDICATED WOULD LAND WITH REAR DOOR OPEN AND STAIRS DOWN SINCE HIJACKER INSISTED FROM TIME OF TAKE OFF IN SEATTLE THAT PLANE FLY IN THIS MANNER. PILOT ADVISED END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ NOV 25 1971 FBI — PORTLAND [signature: M. [guess: Thacke]]
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164-41-2 DB Cooper-40040
LV 164-6☆ PAGE TWO
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IMMEDIATELY BEFORE LANDING THAT NO OBSERVATION OR CONTACT HAD IN SOME TIME AND HIJACKER WAS ALONE IN BACK OF PASSENGER SECTION WHEN LAST OBSERVED AT APPROX. EIGHT ZERO FIVE PM. CREW CONSISTED OF THREE MALES AND ONE HOSTESS.
PLANE LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT AND TAXIED TO APPROX. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YARDS FROM TERMINAL. ENTIRE PERIMETER OF AIR STRIP PREVIOUSLY SURROUNDED BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, (INCLUDING DOG TEAMS) AND FBI AND PLANE UNDER OBSERVATION FROM TOWER WITH BINOCULARS TO INSURE HIJACKER DID NOT DEPART PLANE DURING LANDING OR TAXIING PHASE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH REQUEST OF CAPT. NO ENTRY WAS MADE TO AIRCRAFT UNTIL CREW DETERMINED WHETHER HIJACKER WAS STILL ABOARD. WHEN CAPT. ADVISED HIJACKER NOT ABOARD, FBI AGENTS BOARDED AIRCRAFT. CREW INDICATED THEY HAD MADE CURSORY SEARCH AND HAD FOUND NO EXPLOSIVES, HOWEVER AN IMMEDIATE SEARCH OF THE PLANE WAS MADE BY BUREAU AGENTS FOR EXPLOSIVES AND ANY POTENTIAL EVIDENCE. NO EXPLOSIVES WERE FOUND AND ALL AREAS OCCUPIED BY THE HIJACKER WERE PROCESSED FOR FINGERPRINTS. END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-40041
Serials: LV 164-60, PD 164-41-2