ReportFBI report by SA Charles E. Farrell (Seattle) re NWA Flight 305 hijacking by 'D.B. Cooper' - synopsis, table of contents and 'The Hijack' section16 February 1972page 6 of 16
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Part 110, page 10

DB Cooper-300Serials SE 164-81

Document date 16 February 1972

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SE 164-81

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At approximately 3:22 PM, 11/24/71, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Northwest Airlines (NWA), Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac), tele- phonically advised the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Division, FBI, that a man on board NWA Flight #305, at that time airborne and inbound from Portland, Oregon, had passed word to the pilot that the passenger had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded $200,000 and para- chutes. He instructed that the money and parachutes be ready at Sea-Tac by 5:00 PM that date; that no one was to meet or approach the aircraft and that he would advise later what his flight plans were.

NWA Flight #305, a Boeing 727 Tri-Jet, plane designation N467US, originated at Washington, D.C., leaving there at 8:30 AM, 11/24/71. The plane made stops at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Great Falls, Montana; Missoula, Montana; Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The schedule for the flight called for a departure from Portland, at 2:45 PM, with the plane arriving in Seattle, the termina- tion of the flight at 3:21 PM, PST.

The plane did make the scheduled stops at the above cities and departed from Portland at 2:53 PM, with 36 passengers, including, according to the manifest, "DAN COOPER." There was a crew of six:

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WILLIAM A. SCOTT, Pilot; [REDACTED] Second Officer; [REDACTED] Third Officer; [REDACTED] Stewardess; [REDACTED] Stewardess; [REDACTED] Stewardess.

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Due to construction at the Portland International Airport, the plane was loaded by way of the air stairs at the rear of the plane, instead of the front door. The second to last person to board, according to Stewardess [REDACTED] was a man who occupied seat 18-E and who later hijacked the airplane.

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