Teletype · Nitel teletype SAC Seattle to Acting Director re NORJAK weekly summary · 3 August 1972 · page 2 of 3AIType, 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 3 August 1972AIDates: 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 27 p. 112 (DB Cooper-9088), Teletype, dated 3 Aug 1972, serial SE 164-81-3738 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-27/pages/112
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
SE 164-81
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GEAR DOWN
FLAPS - FIFTEEN DEGREES DOWN
ALTITUDE - TEN THOUSAND FEET,
AFT DOOR OPEN AND THE AIR STAIRS DOWN.
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WHEN IT WAS EXPLAINED TO THE HIJACKER THAT THE
PLANE COULD NOT TAKE OFF WITH THE AIR STAIRS DOWN, HE
REPORTEDLY SAID IN A LOW VOICE, QUOTE YES THEY CAN, BUT
THE COCKPIT CAN PUT IT DOWN AFTER THEY GET AIRBORNE. ENQUOTE.
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ON JULY TWENTYSIX, SEVENTYTWO, [REDACTED] ADVISED
THAT IF THE HIJACKER WAS A MEMBER OF, OR HAD CONSULTED WITH
A MEMBER OF THE BOEING TEST TEAM, HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT
THE SEVEN TWO SEVEN COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN OFF WITH THE AIR
STAIRS DOWN, NOR WOULD IT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY SINCE THE
AIR STAIRS CAN EASILY BE LOWERED IN FLIGHT.
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STEWARDESS [REDACTED] REMARKED UPON BEING
INTERVIEWED SHORTLY AFTER THE HIJACKING, THAT THE AIR
STAIRS AND THE CONTROLS FOR THE AIR STAIRS WERE THE ONLY
FUNCTION OF THE AIR CRAFT THAT THE HIJACKER DID NOT SEEM
TO BE FULLY AWARE OF.
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AS WAS STATED IN THE LAST WEEKLY SUMMARY,
LEADS HAVE BEEN SET OUT TO OBTAIN APPROPRIATE DESCRIPTIVE