Teletype · Nitel Chicago to Seattle and Portland re suspect Gary E. I. Sandal · 27 November 1971 · page 2 of 3AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 27 November 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 90 p. 124 (DB Cooper-40120), Teletype, dated 27 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-37 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-90/pages/124
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D-26 (Rev. 3-22-44)
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FAMILIARIZATION FLIGHT FOR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, SANDAL
WOULD HAVE LEGITIMATE REASON FOR ASKING PILOT ABOUT CONTROL
PROBLEMS, BUT NOT ABOUT PARACHUTES IN FLIGHT AND LOWERING
RAMPS. SANDAL IS A SKY DIVER AND BRAGS ABOUT OVER
ONE HUNDRED JUMPS, HOWEVER NONE IN LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
SANDAL APPARENTLY TOOK [REDACTED] VIOLATION
OF REGULATIONS. SANDAL DESCRIBED BORN SIX TWENTYSIX THIRTY-
NINE, JAMESTOWN, N.D. FIVE NINE TO FIVE TEN, ONE SEVENTY-
FIVE TO ONE EIGHTY POUNDS, BLUE EYES, HAIR DARK BROWN TO BLACK,
CUT SHORT, STRAIGHT, PARTED AND COMBED BACK RECEDING SLIGHTLY
AT SIDES, NORMAL SIDEBURNS, SOMETIMES WEARS GLASSES, MEDIUM
TO MUSCULAR BUILD, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, NOSE CROOKED APPARENTLY
FROM OLD BREAK, QUICK TO SMILE OR LAUGH, RELAXED AND GLIB,
NEAT DRESSER NORMALLY WEARS SHIRT AND TIE AND WING TIP
SHOES, [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] ROCKFORD. SANDAL NOT KNOWN TO HAVE
FINANCIAL TROUBLES OR TO BE A BIG SPENDER OR TO HAVE TALKED
OF HIJACKINGS.
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DB Cooper-40120
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