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SEATTLE (AP) - A tangled, torn parachute found buried last month last month is not the one used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest, the FBI said Tuesday. Investigators reached that conclusion after speaking with parachute experts, including Earl Cossey, who packed the chutes provided to Cooper that rainy November night in 1971.
...Cossey, though sounding cantakerous, appeared to relish the spotlight Tuesday. He answered his cell phone with "D.B. Cooper" and said he got a kick out of telling some reporters that the parachute was, in fact, the hijacker's.
One reporter called him back angrily, saying he could be fired for writing a false story, but another said the newsroom enjoyed the April Fool's joke.
"I'm getting mixed reviews," Cossey said. "But I'm having fun with it; what the heck."
I don't think that there will be much accurate information coming from Mr. Cossey. Unless there's $$$ in it.
Interesting... the location of the parachute, in southwest Washington, is approximately where DB Cooper jumped out of the Boeing 727 back in November of 1971. What are the chances of the parachute belonging to somebody else? I can't remember if the military uses that area for training, which might be an explanation for that parachute, but if that's not the case, then who else does it belong to? I also know that the region is heavily forested, which is not an ideal area for staged parachute jumps, and I'm sure nobody in his right mind would jump in that area, except maybe somebody who's desperate and trying to get away.
I remember not too long ago, when an old guy passed away, and they made a brief mention of this on the news, they said he made a confession to a couple of people who were around him, that he was DB Cooper.
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I think there was a poster on the AZ forum that was doing research on Cooper and might have been related. I can't seem to find it.
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