Part 110, page 231
DB Cooper-523Serials SE 164-81
Interviewed 26 November 1971Dictated 29 November 1971Transcribed 29 November 1971
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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1 Date of transcription 11/29/71
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EARL J. COSSEY, 349 North 101st, Seattle, telephone SU3-0475, appeared at the Seattle Office at which time he furnished the following information:
He is a master parachute rigger and jump instructor at Seattle Sky Sports, Issaquah, Washington, telephone EX2-3050.
In May, 1971, [REDACTED] Washington, [REDACTED] needed two parachutes. COSSEY packed two parachutes which were furnished to [REDACTED] on or about May [REDACTED] 1971. He described these parachutes as back packs, commonly referred to as "emergency" parachutes. He also packed the two chest pack parachutes which were furnished to Northwest Airlines on November 24, 1971.
The two parachutes recovered from the Northwest Airlines flight 305 at Reno, Nevada, on November 24, 1971, were described in detail to Mr. COSSEY at which time he described the missing back pack parachute as having a sage green nylon container, model NB6 (Navy Back pack 6) with sage green nylon harness, which harness has no "D" rings to mount a chest pack. The parachute is a 28 foot nylon white flat circular with a specially fitted foam padded cushion. The pilot chute is also white.
Mr. COSSEY said that the missing chest pack para- chute is a ground training pack dummied up to look like a good one. He said that by "dummied up" he means that tie downs were attached to the container. This chest pack was devised by COSSEY to teach trainees while hung in a harness how to open the chest pack in the event of an emergency. The folds of the parachute are sewen together to preclude the parachute opening in the training room. Mr. COSSEY said that the back packs furnished the hijacker did not have the necessary hooks on the harness to attach a chest pack.
Mr. COSSEY said that if the hijacker opened one of the chest packs on the airplane he probably would remove the parachute and put the money in the chest pack
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Interviewed on 11/26/71 at Seattle, Washington File # SE 164-81
by SA [REDACTED] & SA CHARLES J. HENRY/CJH:set Date dictated 11/29/71
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