News clipping'Hijacker was relaxed, say passengers' with passenger accounts (Seattle Times)25 November 1971page 3 of 3
newspaper_clippingLegibility: medium

Part 53, page 162

DB Cooper-22500

Document date 25 November 1971

Open in FBI Vault (Part 53, page 162 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 162 (DB Cooper-22500), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-53/pages/162

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

say, "pull the curtain aside so he can see everything." [guess: The] The open curtain allowed the man to see to the front cabin door from his rearmost seat.

Passengers praised the stewardesses for their calm- ness and the flight crew for their relaxed voices during announcements.

"We didn't realize what it was until we got out and found ourselves on a dark, cold and wet runway and they told us to get away from the plane," said one passenger.

As the passengers hurried across a runway to a waiting bus for the ride to the air- port terminal they left only their luggage aboard the plane.

THE PASSENGERS were smiling as they reached the airport terminal, a bit em- barrassed at the attention fo- cused on them.

A Northwest spokesman said that as F. B. I. agents organized the questioning, hostesses offered the passen- gers sandwiches and over- night toothbrush-shaving kits.

"Only four wanted san- wiches and nobody wanted a kit," the spokesman said. "We'll get their luggage to them as soon as we can."

---

DB Cooper-22500

---

[guess: CC/P] [illegible]