FBI: Parachute Isn't Hijacker Cooper's

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

FBI: Parachute Isn't Hijacker Cooper's
2008-04-01 21:51:07
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press Writer

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.

"From the best we could learn from the people we spoke to, it just didn't look like it was the right kind of parachute in any way," said FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs.

Further digging at the site in southwestern Washington turned up no indication that it could have been Cooper's, she added.

A man calling himself Dan Cooper — later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper — hijacked a Northwest Orient passenger jet from Portland, Ore., to Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971.

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1. How's the investigation into the murder of William Desmond Taylor going?

Geez.

[murielm99]

2. I have never understood why the FBI continues

to regard this as an open case. It passed into legend long ago, and should stay that way.

Everyone loses a few, and they should have better things to do.

Okay, Agent Mike? :hi:

[whistler162]

3. For awhile a certain paper in Pittsburgh....

thought a certain female candidate for President had something to do with it!;)

Now they seem to think a tall thin mixed race man born somewhere in the Pacific was involved! :}





































Yes I know who William Desmond Taylor was.