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Published: April 2, 2008
FBI: Parachute Isn't Hijacker Cooper's
Associated Press

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.

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