It ain’t D.B Cooper’s chute after all

A week ago, I blogged on the possibility that the parachute used by famed hijacker Dan aka D.B. Cooper more than 30 years ago had finally been found. Alas and alack, it ain’t so.

FBI 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.

This is the third time a parachute has been brought to Cossey’s attention as possibly being Cooper’s. I guess skydivers or whatever occasionally have untraced death sites or something.

That said, in the spirit of the day, April 1, Cossey answered his phone today, when fielding reporters’ calls, as “D.B. Cooper.”

On the plus side, the geographical mysteries that would have been caused by this being Cooper’s parachute have now …

Vanished into thin air again.