Interview report (FD-302)Interview of FAA official re Northwest Airlines Flight 305 air-ground communicationsInterviewed 30 December 19711 page
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Part 110, page 195

DB Cooper-487Serials SE 164-81

Interviewed 30 December 1971Dictated 30 December 1971Transcribed 5 January 1972

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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 1/5/72

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b6 per FAA b7C per FA[redacted] Auburn, Washington, provided a transcription prepared by his office of tape recordings of transmissions between the Auburn center and Northwest Airlines Flight #305, which was under hijack on November 24, 1971.

[REDACTED] advised that the original tapes are maintained in his custody.

[REDACTED] advised that the Seattle Center worked Flight #305 on the way in to Seattle from Portland, but had no indication that a hijack had occurred and the aircraft did not squawk any signal as to a hijack situation. They were not aware of the hijack until they handed off the plane to the Seattle-Tacoma Tower.

[REDACTED] advised that after the plane took off fr b6 per FAA Sea-Tac on its way south toward Sacramento, California, b7C per FAA the Auburn Center worked the flight from shortly after take- off until they handed the flight off to the Oakland Center, which occurred at the Oregon-California border.

In view of the fact that the times listed in the log provided by [REDACTED] are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), an insertion has been made at least once in each page to convert the GMT to Pacific Standard Time.

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Interviewed on 12/30/71 at Seattle, Washington File # SE 164-81

by SA CHARLES E. FARRELL/klb Date dictated 12/30/71

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