FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs stands with a parachute found in North Clark County, Wash., on Tuesday. AP PhotoChildren playing in Amboy discovered an old tattered parachute. At the urging of the children, their Dad contacted the FBI. FBI agent Larry Carr overlaid the family’s address onto a map made in the early days of the investigation and learned they lived right in Cooper’s most probable landing zone, between Green and Bald mountains.
The FBI is hoping someone with expertise in parachutes will come forward and inspect the remnants they have to determine if it is the type of parachute used by Cooper in 1971, a Navy Backpack 6 with a 26-foot canopy, before beginning to excavate the property.
Is a major Pacific Northwest mystery and America’s only unsolved high jacking closer to being solved, 37 years later?
If it is Cooper’s parachute, will it just open more questions about how did the money discovered on the banks of the Columbia in Vancouver back in 1980 get there from Amboy?
Do we even want the legend of D.B. Cooper solved?
