Teletype · Portland to Seattle re emergency locator beacon radio signal (file copy) · 26 November 1971 · page 1 of 2AIType, 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 26 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.
NR 006 PD PLAIN
7:25 PM URGENT 11/26/71 TLA
TO: SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)
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UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE
ZERO FIVE, ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
OO: SEATTLE.
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[REDACTED], OREGON AIR NATIONAL GUARD,
ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY THREE THIRTY P.M. TODAY AS HE WAS
MAKING APPROACH TO PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN F-ONE ZERO
ONE FIGHTER, HE HEARD A FAINT RADIO TONE SIGNAL BEING BROADCAST
ON TWO FOUR THREE POINT ZERO MC, A FREQUENCY RESERVED FOR EMERGENCY
AIRCRAFT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS. SIGNAL FIRST HEARD NEAR EVERGREEN
AIRPORT, JUST EAST OF VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, THEN HEARD SECOND
TIME NEAR REYNOLDS ALUMINUM PLANT WEST OF VANCOUVER. SIGNAL
HEARD FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUTES, DURING WHICH TIME [REDACTED]
ATTEMPTED TO OBTAIN RADIO FIX ON AUTOMATIC DIRECTION FINDER
EQUIPMENT WITHOUT SUCCESS AS SIGNAL FADED OUT. SIGNAL WAS OF
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