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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 p. 309 (DB Cooper-7709), Teletype, dated 12 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2667 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-24/pages/309
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SU 164-24
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FEET FOR PERIOD OF ONE AND ONE-HALF HOURS PRIOR TO HIJACKER JUMPING
DUE TO OPEN REAR STAIRS.
NORJAK CASE, BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN FLYING AT ONE HUNDRED
SEVENTY KNOTS. UAL CASE, BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN FLYING AT ONE
HUNDRED EIGHTY KNOTS, WHICH APPROXIMATES TWO HUNDRED MILES PER
HOUR OR THREE MILES PER MINUTE, AT INSTRUCTION OF HIJACKER.
NORJAK CASE, TWO PARACHUTES REMAINED ON AIRCRAFT WHEN IT
ARRIVED RENO, NEVADA, ONE OF WHICH WAS OPEN AND THREE SHROUD LINES
HAD BEEN CUT AND REMOVED FROM PARACHUTE, PRESUMABLY TO TIE RANSOM
MONEY PACKAGE TO HIJACKER. UAL CASE, HIJACKER JETTISONED ONE, TWO
OR THREE PARACHUTES IN NEVADA, AT LEASE ONE CONTAINING HOMING DEVICE
AND HAD ROPE OR HARNESS IN HIS POSSESSION TO FASTEN MONEY
AND EQUIPMENT TO HIM. IN UAL CASE ROPE WAS NINETEEN FEET LONG, WITH
EYE GROMMETS. IN INTERVIEW OF LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD PARACHUTE JUMPER,
HE INDICATED IT IS STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE IN NATIONAL GUARD
UNITS TO HAVE "H" HARNESS WITH WHICH EQUIPMENT PACKAGE IS STRAPPED
TO BODY. APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FOOT ROPE IS FASTENED TO HARNESS
AND EQUIPMENT PACKAGE, AND AFTER PARACHUTE IS OPENED, JUMPER