TeletypeSeattle to Cincinnati re parachute rigging details in NORJAK hijacking30 November 1971page 2 of 2
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Part 64, page 192

DB Cooper-27031Serials SE 164-81

Document date 30 November 1971

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MATERIAL DESCRIBED AS ONE POINT ONE OUNCES. PARACHUTE RIGGER WHO PACKED CHUTE STATES CONTAINER NORMALLY HAS TWENTYSIX FOOT CHUTE, HOWEVER, HE PACKED TWENTYEIGHT FOOT CHUTE IN CONTAINER BACK PACK, DID NOT HAVE TYPE HARNESS AND NECESSARY GEAR TO ATTACH CHEST PACK. CHEST PACK TAKEN BY UNSUB WAS INOPERABLE DUMMY TRAINING PARACHUTE. 4. UNSUB ESTIMATED TO BE IN MID FORTY'S, FIVE FEET TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY POUNDS. 5. UNSUB BELIEVED TO HAVE CARRIED A SMALL ATTACHE CASE. WEIGHT OF MONEY GIVEN TO HIM AND BAG WAS NINETEEN POUNDS. 6. GROUND WINDS WERE IN VICINITY OF THIRTY MILES SOUTHWEST. 7. UNSUB IS BELIEVED TO HAVE JUMPED AROUND EIGHT TEN P.M. 8. ESTIMATE GROUND WIN TEN TO FIFTEEN KNOTS FROM THE WEST.

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DB Cooper-27031