FBI: Parachute found in SW Wash. was not D.B. Cooper's
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The FBI said Tuesday that a weathered parachute found in Washington state last month by children is not the one used by infamous plane hijacker D.B. Cooper. (article 2)
FBI investigators spoke with parachute experts, including Earl Cossey who packed the parachutes provided to Cooper on the day in 1971 when he jumped out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest. (article 2)
Cossey said one of the differences was that Cooper's parachute was made of nylon, not silk like the one found. (article 2)
The hijacker who identified himself as Dan Cooper, but was later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient passenger jet from Portland, Ore., to Seattle, Wash., on Nov. 24, 1971. (article 2)
DALLAS - A boy who found the lone piece of evidence linked to the world's only unsolved skyjacking is now a 30-something father of five who has decided to start selling his treasure. (article 5)
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A recently discovered parachute could not have been used by D.B. Cooper in 1971, says the man who packed the four chutes that were given to the mysterious skyjacker. (article 4)
Cossey, who sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaquah in the 1970s, had provided the chutes that the FBI gave Cooper. (article 4)
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Source articles
- FBI: Parachute found in SW Wash. was not D.B. Cooper's (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 04/01/2008, 572 words)
- FBI bursts bubble on D.B. Cooper parachute claim (cbc.ca, 04/01/2008, 335 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. (FOX News, 04/02/2008, 512 words)
- Parachute isn't D.B.'s: chute salesman :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation (suntimes.com, 03/31/2008, 323 words)
- D.B. Cooper bills up for sale (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 04/01/2008, 449 words)
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