On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:13:50 -0700, "gatt" wrote:


"AMBOY, Wash. - There could be a major break in the biggest crime mystery in
Northwest history.The FBI in Seattle is beginning analysis of a long-buried
parachute - the same type used by skyjacker D.B. Cooper when he jumped from
an Northwest Orient Airlines 727 with a 25 pound money bag containing
200-thousand dollars ransom on Thanksgiving eve 1971."

http://www.koin.com/content/news/top...d-b3d4851101a4

A buried parachute suggests he lived?

Depends on how one defines "buried." If they find that the chute had been (for
example) stuffed in a garbage bag prior to going underground, that certainly
implies that the owner of the chute survived.

If you think about it, an opened parachute (especially one attached to a dead
person) is going to drape across the surface, not burrow below it. And if the
owner WAS dead, there should be bones, etc. at the site where the chute was
recovered.

Ron Wanttaja