Part 27, page 314
DB Cooper-9393Serials SU 164-24
Document date 24 August 1972
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 27 p. 314 (DB Cooper-9393), Report, dated 24 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-27/pages/314
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SU 164-24
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On April 11, 1972, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Hughes Air West, 2nd and Ellsworth, San Mateo, California, made available Hughes Air West tickets during the pertinent period of NORJAK, and a review failed to reflect any individual by the name R. MC COY, D. B. COOPER or any similar name flying from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Seattle, Washington, or Portland, Oregon, or from Portland or Seattle to Salt Lake City. During this review, reviewing personnel were instructed to pull any tickets with the names COOPER or MC COY and none were located, the review being conducted by Bureau Agents.
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On April 11, 1972, Bureau Agents from the Minneapolis Office contacted [REDACTED] Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and [REDACTED] provided the lift tickets for all flights from Portland to Seattle and vice versa for the period of November 10-24, 1971, and a review of these tickets for the names RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, R. MC COY, D. COOPER, DAN COOPER and T. JOHNSON were negative. [REDACTED] stated that the lift tickets that were reviewed were tickets of on-line passengers, who are those individuals making reservations through North- west on Northwest flights, and tickets were not available for review of those off-line passengers, which would entail approx- imately 25 percent of Northwest passenger service.
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The Las Vegas Division on April 18, 1972, advised that all airline manifest that have flights to Portland from Las Vegas are destroyed after 90 days and that Hughes Air West, United Air Lines and Northwest Airlines provide service between Las Vegas and Portland; however, there are no direct flights and all are via Los Angeles, California, or San Francisco, California.
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On April 19, 1972, the Las Vegas Division advised the only Air Force base where military planes could land in the Las Vegas area is Nellis Air Force Base northeast of Las Vegas. Nellis Air Force Base operations advised that individuals who come in on military planes are not logged, therefore, there is no way of knowing whether a particular individual arrived in Las Vegas. Operations personnel stated that individual names would be available at the point of origin of the flight and would be contained on a passenger manifest.
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