Cripes. Here comes D.B.Cooper, again!
Rock on!
A tattered, half-buried parachute unearthed by
kids had D.B. Cooper country chattering, again, over the fate of the skyjacker,
who leaped from a plane 36 years ago and into the lore of the Pacific
Northwest.
The parachute is about all most people in this neck of the southwestern Washington woods ever expected would be found as evidence of Cooper’s daredevil escape attempt…
In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight, claiming he had a bomb. He demanded and got $200,000, then jumped out the back of the plane somewhere near the Oregon line.
He might have landed in the area where children playing outside their home near Amboy found fabric sticking up from the ground where their father had been grading a road.
And it’s a parachute…
The parachute is about all most people in this neck of the southwestern Washington woods ever expected would be found as evidence of Cooper’s daredevil escape attempt…
In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight, claiming he had a bomb. He demanded and got $200,000, then jumped out the back of the plane somewhere near the Oregon line.
He might have landed in the area where children playing outside their home near Amboy found fabric sticking up from the ground where their father had been grading a road.
And it’s a parachute…
Posted: Thu - March 27, 2008 at 06:50 AM