Part 39, page 227

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FD-36 (Rev. 2-14-74)

FBI

Date: 3/1/77

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Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL - (Precedence)

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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO: Seattle)

Re information from [REDACTED] Continental Airlines

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On 2/22/77, [REDACTED] Continental Airlines, [illegible symbol] Seattle, Washington, was interviewed at Portland International Airport by SA [REDACTED] furnished the following information:

On the night of 11/24/71, during the hijacking in this matter, he, [REDACTED] a Continental Air- lines flight between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He became aware of the hijacking by radio and followed the progress of the hijacking by monitoring the discrete radio frequencies in his own aircraft.

[REDACTED] advised that he departed Seattle- Tacoma Airport enroute for Portland shortly after Northwest Flight 305, which was being hijacked, and that he followed the same course flown by Northwest Flight 305 but was approximately four minutes behind the Northwest flight when it arrived at Portland.

[REDACTED] advised that in his twenty-four years flying airliners, he recalls that night of 11/24/71, as being the most rapid and severe weather change in his experience. He said that when he was approaching Portland, along Victor 23 airways flying a course of approximately 166 degrees, he was experiencing a wind directly from 166 degrees at 80 knots of speed at his altitude which was 14,000 feet. He said that the wind

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(2) - Seattle 2 - Portland

RPH:kd (4) Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge SA [initials] Sent _____ M Per _____

GPO: 1975 O - 590-992 DB Cooper-15412