Arnie Madsen
03-26-2008, 04:56 AM
For anyone who follows the DB Cooper story here is an update
Mar 26, 2008 04:30 AM
SEATTLE–The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwestern Washington state to determine whether it might have been used by notorious hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Children playing outside their home near Amboy, Wash., found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground, agent Larry Carr said yesterday. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the chute's ropes with scissors.
The children had seen recent coverage of the case – the FBI launched a publicity campaign last fall, seeking tips to solve the 36-year-old mystery – and urged their dad to call the agency.
A man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly but enduringly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in November 1971, saying he had a bomb. When the plane landed in Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 (U.S.) and asked to be flown to Mexico. He apparently jumped from the plane's back stairs near the Oregon border.
Agents doubt he survived, but few signs of his fate have been found.
Carr spoke with the children's father this month and learned the chute was white, like Cooper's.
And when Carr overlaid the family's address onto a map investigators made in the early days of the case, he learned they lived right in Cooper's most likely landing zone.
It's not clear yet if the chute is the type Cooper used.
Mar 26, 2008 04:30 AM
SEATTLE–The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwestern Washington state to determine whether it might have been used by notorious hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Children playing outside their home near Amboy, Wash., found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground, agent Larry Carr said yesterday. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the chute's ropes with scissors.
The children had seen recent coverage of the case – the FBI launched a publicity campaign last fall, seeking tips to solve the 36-year-old mystery – and urged their dad to call the agency.
A man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly but enduringly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in November 1971, saying he had a bomb. When the plane landed in Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 (U.S.) and asked to be flown to Mexico. He apparently jumped from the plane's back stairs near the Oregon border.
Agents doubt he survived, but few signs of his fate have been found.
Carr spoke with the children's father this month and learned the chute was white, like Cooper's.
And when Carr overlaid the family's address onto a map investigators made in the early days of the case, he learned they lived right in Cooper's most likely landing zone.
It's not clear yet if the chute is the type Cooper used.