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April 2, 2008 at 7:20am
by thecodepounder As we discussed last week, the FBI announced it was investigating a parachute found buried in southwest Washington state in connection with the infamous “D.B. Cooper” incident from 1971. However, the FBI confirmed late Tuesday that there was no connection:
Cossey, who sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaquah in the 1970s, had provided the chutes Cooper used. He told The Columbian of Vancouver that the newly found chute “absolutely, for sure” could not have been one of the four that he provided.
“The D.B. Cooper parachute was made of nylon,” he said. “This 1945 parachute was made of silk.”
And so the legend of D.B. Cooper continues…
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