Teletype · SAC Seattle to Director reporting hijacking of Northwest Flight 305 · 24 November 1971 · page 2 of 7AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 24 November 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
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SUBJECT'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR HANDLING THE MONEY
AND THE PARACHUTES TO THE PLANE WERE THAT NO ONE WAS TO
APPROACH THE PLANE EXCEPT ONE REFUELING TRUCK; A BUS TO TAKE
OFF THE PASSENGERS AND THE MESSENGER WITH THE MONEY AND
THE PARACHUTES. THE SUBJECT STATED THAT HE WOULD ALLOW
ONE OF THE STEWARDESSES TO LEAVE THE PLANE; GET THE PARACHUTES
AND THE MONEY AND DELIVER THEM TO HIM. HE STATED HE WOULD
RELEASE THE REST OF THE PASSENGERS AND THE OTHER TWO
STEWARDESSES AFTER THE PARACHUTES AND MONEY WERE ON BOARD.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE PLANE CARRIED THIRTY[strikethrough: SIX] [handwritten: SEVEN] PASSENGERS;
THREE MALE CREW MEMBERS AND THREE STEWARDESSES.
PILOT AND NORTHWEST AIRLINES OFFICIALS WERE
POSITIVE IN THEIR STATEMENT THAT THEY WANTED NO ONE ELSE TO
GO NEAR THE PLANE WHICH WAS PARKED ON A FAR CORNER OF THE
FIELD AND WANTED NO INTERFERENCE IN THE REFUELING.OPERATION
AND DELIVERY OF THE MONEY AND PARACHUTES.
THE MONEY AND PARACHUTES WERE DELIVERED BY [REDACTED]
NORTHWEST AIRLINES AT SEATTLE. THIRTY[strikethrough: FIVE] [handwritten: SIX]
OF THE PASSENGERS AND TWO STEWARDESSES LEFT THE PLANE AND
CAME INTO THE TERMINAL. THE PLANE WAS REFUELED TO FULL
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