Interview report (FD-302)Interview of FAA official re Northwest Airlines Flight 305 air-ground communicationsInterviewed 30 December 19711 page
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Part 65, page 371

DB Cooper-27674Serials SE 164-81

Interviewed 30 December 1971Dictated 30 December 1971Transcribed 5 January 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 65 p. 371 (DB Cooper-27674), FD-302 interview, interviewed 30 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-65/pages/371

People

Charles E. FarrellFBI agent

Places

Auburn, WashingtonOregon-California borderPortlandSacramento, CaliforniaSeattle, WashingtonSeattle-Tacoma Tower

Dates mentioned

1/5/7212/30/71November 24, 1971

Transcript

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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 1/5/72

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[REDACTED], Area Officer B, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center, Auburn, Washington, provided a transcription prepared by his office of tape recordings of transmissions between the Auburn center and Northwest Airlines Flight #305, which was under hijack on November 24, 1971.

[REDACTED] advised that the original tapes are maintained in his custody.

[REDACTED] advised that the Seattle Center worked Flight #305 on the way in to Seattle from Portland, but had no indication that a hijack had occurred and the aircraft did not squawk any signal as to a hijack situation. They were not aware of the hijack until they handed off the plane to the Seattle-Tacoma Tower.

[REDACTED] advised that after the plane took off from Sea-Tac on its way south toward Sacramento, California, the Auburn Center worked the flight from shortly after take- off until they handed the flight off to the Oakland Center, which occurred at the Oregon-California border.

In view of the fact that the times listed in the log provided by [REDACTED] are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), an insertion has been made at least once in each page to convert the GMT to Pacific Standard Time.

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Interviewed on 12/30/71 at Seattle, Washington File # SE 164-81-[illegible]

by SA CHARLES E. FARRELL/klb Date dictated 12/30/71

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

DB Cooper-27674