Seattle to Director, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Portland re parachute expert Cossey's assessment
Document date 26 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:093-094 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Portland re parachute expert Cossey's assessment Id: Cooper-Part-90:093-094 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A093-094 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. 93–94 (DB Cooper-40084–40085), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A093-094
NR009 SE PLAIN 5:08 PM URGENT 11/26/71 JJT TO, DIRECTOR LAS VEGAS MINNEAPOLIS PORTLAND FROM SEATTLE (164-81)
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PARACHUTES No PD LEADS
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO:SEATTLE.
EARL J. COSSEY, MASTER PARACHUTE RIGGER, AND JUMP INSTRUCTOR, INTERVIEWED THIS DATE. STATES HE PACKED THREE PARACHUTES GIVEN TO SUBJECT, AND FROM AVAILABLE INFORMATION, HAS DETERMINED MISSING BACK PACK IS A MODEL N B SIX (NAVY BACK PACK SIX). CONTAINER IS SAGE-GREEN, NYLON, AND PARACHUTE IS TWENTYEIGHT FT. NYLON WHITE FLIGHT CIRCULAR (NON STEERABLE). BACK PACK EQUIPPED WITH SPECIAL FOAM CUSHION AND HAS SAGE-GREEN NYLON HARNESS WITH NO. "D" RINGS TO MOUNT CHEST PACK.
COSSEY STATES CHEST PACK USED BY SUBJECT IS DUMMY TRAINING RIG, WHICH IS INOPERABLE. COSSEY SPECULATES SUBJECT USED CHEST PACK FOR MONEY.
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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED NOV 26 1971 FBI — PORTLAND
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Kc1- c1-20
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DB Cooper-40084
PAGE TWO
SE 164-81
COSSEY STATES NIGHT JUMPING VERY DANGEROUS, WHEN TERRAIN UNKNOWN AND DISTINCT POSSIBILITY SUBJECT SUFFERED ANKLE AND/OR LEG INJURIES ON LANDING AS SUBJECT UNABLE TO CONTROL RATE OF DESCENT OR JUDGE SHOCK IMPACT, ALSO, IF WEARING STREET SHOES, POSSIBILITY OF INJURY GREATER.
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FBI PORTLAND HOLD
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DB Cooper-40085
Serials: SE 164-81
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