D B Cooper's Parachute?

[Pete]

D B Cooper's parachute?

http://www.columbian.com/news/localN...DB-Coopers.cfm

Hmmmm.

[Stras]

That could be... Some kids playing on a river bank found some of the $$$ back in the 80's. The area was near where they were dredging the river. within the last 10 yrs, a parachute was found wrapped around a bridge support near the jump zone..

Having grown up in WA. The local legend is that D B Cooper shows up at the annual DB Cooper Day festivities in disguise..

D B Cooper was a misnomer.... I can't remember who, but someone added the middle initial. It was D Cooper who made the jump.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

[Ambush Master]

I was questioned about this, a long ..........time ..........ago.......!

[Sdiver]

I think it's time to set the record straight........











I'm D.B Cooper














No wait......I'm Spartacus



Nevermind....carry on.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Ambush Master

I was questioned about this, a long ..........time ..........ago.......!

Never fear the FBI is on the case..... even if they catch Cooper it will take another 25 years to bring the case to trial.....

[tst43]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Never fear the FBI is on the case..... even if they catch Cooper it will take another 25 years to bring the case to trial.....

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

[Pete]

So it looks like they only have a canopy.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/orego...100.xml&coll=7

Have not gone to the site to dig up the harness yet.

25 Years may be a little quick.

From the story an agent did go up there and poke around.

Nylon is pretty durable and parachutes make a mess if they are rolled and stuffed. Would be pretty hard to just get the canopy and nothing else even after all these years.

Tons of reserves and T-10 canopys in the surplus market, most with the lines cut off. I got one in the garage.

[kgoerz]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Never fear the FBI is on the case..... even if they catch Cooper it will take another 25 years to bring the case to trial.....

But they caught the Unabomber.....thats right his brother turned him in, my bad

Wait they caught Eric Rudolph, thats right a small town Cop caught him Dumpster Diving, Double my Bad

They assaulted the Branch Dividian Compound and captured all the Suspects, thats right they burnt it down and killed everyone, Triple my bad

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by kgoerz

But they caught the Unabomber.....thats right his brother turned him in, my bad

Wait they caught Eric Rudolph, thats right a small town Cop caught him Dumpster Diving, Double my Bad

They assaulted the Branch Dividian Compound and captured all the Suspects, thats right they burnt it down and killed everyone, Triple my bad

Come on be nice, look at this case, the FBI are "HOT" on the trail.......(after 6 1/2 years!) I'm betting any decade now they will catch the perp!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342852,00.html

[Oldrotorhead]

Originally Posted by kgoerz

But they caught the Unabomber.....thats right his brother turned him in, my bad

Wait they caught Eric Rudolph, thats right a small town Cop caught him Dumpster Diving, Double my Bad

They assaulted the Branch Dividian Compound and captured all the Suspects, thats right they burnt it down and killed everyone, Triple my bad

You are much to critical of the FBI. They caught Whitey Bolger right away! OH wait, is wasn't right away and it wasn't the FBI that found him.

[kgoerz]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Never fear the FBI is on the case..... even if they catch Cooper it will take another 25 years to bring the case to trial.....

Or his brother hands him over

[kgoerz]

Why are they even spending Money, Time and Man power on this. Aren't there more important things to be addressed.

[JoeEOD]

Parachutist magazine did a great multipart series on the D. B. Cooper story last year. Check it out on the USPA web site and hit the Parachutist button. You'll find it in the most commonly viewed list.

This news story should have never risen to the level of news. I got my Rigger's license in the early 70's and at that time the FAA regs required a silk parachute to have the lines cut off -even if never used- seven years (as I recall) after the date of manufacture. So there should have been no silk parachutes in service when Cooper jumped. The fact that it was a silk parachute automaticaly excluded it from being Cooper's.

The area safety officer (ASO) for the USPA in Hawaii was a guy named Dave Thompson who the the FBI seemed to think was a good fit for Cooper. He did the stunt jumps for the movie The Gypsy Moths. (They shot the low pull several times until he finally said no more). Fortunately for Dave he had a great alibi for the date of the hijacking!

[Surf n Turf]

Originally Posted by Ambush Master

I was questioned about this, a long ..........time ..........ago.......!

Ambush Master,
Well, it appears that it was a well planned and superbly executed mission –
Who else would Fuller Brush Inc. immediately question

SnT

[Ret10Echo]

Guess we wait some more....D.B., hope you are sitting on a beach in Mexico reading this and chuckling....



FBI: Parachute Isn't Hijacker Cooper's
April 2, 2008 - 5:18am

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.

At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped out the back of the plane somewhere near the Oregon line.

Some of the cash has been found, but his fate is unknown, and investigators doubt he survived.

Children playing near a recently graded road found the parachute, and they urged their father to call the FBI because they had seen recent news stories about Cooper's case. The parachute was the right color, and the location was in the middle of what could have been Cooper's landing zone.

That got the attention of FBI agent Larry Carr, who drove to the site to see the find for himself.

But Cossey told Carr that Cooper's parachute was made of nylon. The one the children found was made of silk and did not feature a harness container. Cossey sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaquah in the 1970s.

Cossey has been through the drill before; this is the third time the FBI has asked him to examine parachutes to see whether they might have been Cooper's.

One chute found long ago _ he couldn't remember when _ was just a "pilot chute," used to pull the main chute out of the pack. The other time, in 1988, it was a parachute found by a Columbia River diver seeking clues to Cooper's fate.

"They keep bringing me garbage," Cossey said. "Every time they find squat, they bring it out and open their trunk and say, 'Is that it?' and I say, 'Nope, go away.' Then a few years later they come back."

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."