TeletypeLas Vegas to Seattle re search along hijacked aircraft flight route over Nevada7 December 1971page 1 of 2
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Part 54, page 331

DB Cooper-22798Serials 164-492, LA 164-497, LV 164-60

Document date 7 December 1971

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NT 253 LV CODE 1145 AM URGENT 12-7-71 EB TO SEATTLE 164-S1 PHOENIX WASHINGTON FIELD LOS ANGELES 164-497 FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, SEVENTY-ONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

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RE SEATTLE NITEL DECEMBER SIX LAST CONCERNING INFORMATION FROM [REDACTED] IT IS NOT FELT THAT INFORMATION FROM SOURCE THAT UNSUB [REDACTED] AS STATED IN LAS VEGAS TEL NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX LAST, FAA, RENO, MADE INITIAL CONTACT WITH INSTANT FLIGHT AT FRENCHMAN'S RESERVIOR, CALIFORNIA, TEN THIRTY- TWO PM. AT THIS POINT FLIGHT TURNED DUE EAST TO THE NEVADA BORDER AND PROCEEDED DUE EAST TO A POINT TWELVE MILES INSIDE BOUNDARY OF NEVADA. IT THEN PROCEEDED DIRECTLY SOUTH TO RENO, A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FIVE MILES. FLIGHT CIRCLED BRIEFLY IN THE RENO - SPARKS, NEVADA, AREA BEFORE LANDING. END PAGE ONE

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SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED......FILED DEC 7 1971 ELES [illegible]

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164-492 - 27 DB Cooper-22798

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