The Sun: 'Parachute not that of missing skyjacker'
Document date 25 November 1979
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 pp. 327–328 (DB Cooper-43262–43263), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1979 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A327-328
NOV 25 1979
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THE SUN ■ D7
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Parachute not that of missing skyjacker
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KELSO, Wash. — The FBI says it has ruled out any connection between a partly buried parachute found in a wooded area of southwest Washington and the 8-year-old disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
The parachute was found by logger Darrell G. Ray and turned over to Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies Monday, after a friend told Ray the discovery might be a clue to the nation's only unsolved skyjacking.
But Bill Williams, an FBI spokesman in Portland, Ore., said Tuesday, "We have determined after examining the chute that it is not related to the case at all, even though it was found in the general area where Cooper left the plane."
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DB Cooper-43262
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A man using the name of Cooper boarded a Northwest Airlines jet headed from Portland to Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971. While airborne, he threatened to blow up the plane with a bomb he claimed to have in a briefcase unless he was given $200,000.
After the plane landed in Seattle, Cooper freed the passengers and was given the money and four parachutes. He or- dered the plane to fly to Reno, but opened the rear boarding ramp of the Boeing 727 some- where en route — be- lieved to be over southwest Washington — and bailed out.
No trace of Cooper or the money has been found.
Records indicated that Cooper was given white parachutes, Wil- liams said, while the parachute found in the woods was orange and white.
Authorities have said they believe Cooper died somewhere in the woods after bailing out. More than 1,000 persons were considered and rejected as suspects in the case.
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DB Cooper-43263