Teletype · Las Vegas to Director, Portland and Seattle re Flight 305 landing at Reno · 25 November 1971 · page 1 of 2AIType, 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 25 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. 57 (DB Cooper-40040), Teletype, dated 25 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-2 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-90/pages/57
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
NR 025 LV PLAIN
7:45 AM URGENT 11/25/71 MJH
TO DIRECTOR
PORTLAND
SEATTLE
FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60)
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UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWESTERN AIRLINES SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN,
FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE,
PORTLAND, OREGON. CAA - HIJACKING.
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CAPTIONED FLIGHT ARRIVED RENO, NEVADA, ELEVEN ZERO ONE
PM PST, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE. NORTHWESTERN AIRLINE
OFFICIALS FROM MINNEAPOLIS HAD PREVIOUSLY REQUESTED THAT PLANE
BE ALLOWED TO LAND WITH NO POLICE OFFICIALS OR POLICE TYPE
VEHICLES IN VICINITY. NORTHWESTERN ALSO REQUESTED UNITED AIRLINES,
RENO, NEVADA, HANDLE ALL REFUELING AND STATION FUNCTIONS. CAPT.
OF FLIGHT RADIOED REQUEST PRIOR TO LANDING THAT PLANE BE APPROACHED
ONLY WHEN REQUESTED BY UNMARKED CAR OCCUPIED BY UNITED AIRLINE
OFFICAL AND ONE OTHER INDIVIDUAL. SAC LAS VEGAS WITH UNITED AIRLINE
OFFICAL. FUEL TRUCKS ON STANDBY TO LOAD APPROX. FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND
LBS. FUEL. PILOT FURTHER INDICATED WOULD LAND WITH REAR DOOR
OPEN AND STAIRS DOWN SINCE HIJACKER INSISTED FROM TIME OF TAKE
OFF IN SEATTLE THAT PLANE FLY IN THIS MANNER. PILOT ADVISED
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____
SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____
NOV 25 1971
FBI — PORTLAND
[signature: M. [guess: Thacke]]