Part 94, page 132
DB Cooper-42191Serials SU 164-24
Document date 12 April 1972
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SU 164-24 PAGE FOUR
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FEET FOR PERIOD OF ONE AND ONE-HALF HOURS PRIOR TO HIJACKER JUMPING DUE TO OPEN REAR STAIRS.
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NORJAK CASE, BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN FLYING AT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY KNOTS. UAL CASE, BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN FLYING AT ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY KNOTS, WHICH APPROXIMATES TWO HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR OR THREE MILES PER MINUTE, AT INSTRUCTION OF HIJACKER.
NORJAK CASE, TWO PARACHUTES REMAINED ON AIRCRAFT WHEN IT ARRIVED RENO, NEVADA, ONE OF WHICH WAS OPEN AND THREE SHROUD LINES HAD BEEN CUT AND REMOVED FROM PARACHUTE, PRESUMABLY TO TIE RANSOM MONEY PACKAGE TO HIJACKER. UAL CASE, HIJACKER JETTISONED ONE, TWO OR THREE PARACHUTES IN NEVADA, AT LEASE ONE CONTAINING HOMING DEVICE AND HAD ROPE OR HARNESS IN HIS POSSESSION TO FASTEN MONEY AND EQUIPMENT TO HIM. IN UAL CASE ROPE WAS NINETEEN FEET LONG, WITH EYE GROMMETS. IN INTERVIEW OF LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD PARACHUTE JUMPER, HE INDICATED IT IS STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE IN NATIONAL GUARD UNITS TO HAVE "H" HARNESS WITH WHICH EQUIPMENT PACKAGE IS STRAPPED TO BODY. APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FOOT ROPE IS FASTENED TO HARNESS AND EQUIPMENT PACKAGE, AND AFTER PARACHUTE IS OPENED, JUMPER
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DB Cooper-42191