Minneapolis to Director, Portland and Seattle re flight path and chase planes

Document date 26 November 1971

Part 90pages 65–662 pagesDB Cooper-40053, DB Cooper-40055

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Document: Teletype Minneapolis to Director, Portland and Seattle re flight path and chase planes
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 90 pp. 65–66 (DB Cooper-40053, DB Cooper-40055), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A065-066

NR002 MP PLAIN 1205 AM URGENT 11-26-71 JMJ TO DIRECTOR PORTIOO PORTLAND SE ATTLE FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-NEW) 3P

UNSUB; NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, NINETEEN SEVEN ONE, CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

RE MINNEAPOLIS TELETYPES TO DIRECTOR AND SACS NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, LAST, AND MINNEAPOLIS TELEPHONE CALLS TO SEATTLE AND PORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, LAST.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, BASED ON REVIEW OF NOTES MAINTAINED WHILE IN COMMUNICATION WITH HIJACKED AIRCRAFT FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PLUS MATHEMATICAL COMPUTATION, ADVISES POSSIBLE AREA OF LANDING OF HIJACKER COULD BE EITHER SIDE OF A LINE BETWEEN TWO POINTS: THE FIRST POINT BEING APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF THE FACE OF THE DAM ON LAKE MERWIN, WASHINGTON; WITH THE SECOND POINT BEING A POINT ONE MILE END PAGE ONE

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[illegible] INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED NOV 8 6 1971 FBI - PORTLAND

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DB Cooper-40053

MP164-NEW PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] WAS INFORMED BY [REDACTED], PORTLAND AIRPORT, THAT TWO CHASE PLANES WHICH WERE FOLLOWING FIVE MILES BEHIND HIJACKED AIRCRAFT SUDDENLY VEERED TO THE EAST AND THEREAFTER MADE A RIGHT TURN. THE POINT OF THEIR CHANGE OF COURSE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY IN TIME AND LOCATION TO THAT BELIEVED WHERE UNSUB DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT.

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[REDACTED] ALSO POINTED OUT THERE IS A SMALL AIR FIELD SUITABLE FOR PARACHUTE JUMPING AND SO MARKED ON A SECTIONAL MAP IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AREA WHERE UNSUB IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT.

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PENDING END.

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VSORRY DID I INTERRUP YOU GA

LJQ

REC OK FBI PORTLAND CLR

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DB Cooper-40055

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Serials: 164-NEW, MP164-NEW

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