{"id":1355,"date":"2008-04-04T23:15:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2008-04-04T23:15:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:15:55","slug":"its_not_coopers_chute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/its_not_coopers_chute\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Cooper&#8217;s &#8216;Chute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the <a title=\"Has D.B. Cooper\u2019s Parachute Been Found?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2008\/03\/has_db_coopers_parachute_been\/\">possibility<\/a> that a new clue to the fate of hijacker D.B. Cooper had been found, Earl Cossey, the man who packed the four parachutes given to Cooper on that night in 1971, says the &#8216;chute discovered by some children in Washington state is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Cooper-Parachute.html\">definitely <i>not<\/i> one of Cooper&#8217;s<\/a>. Cooper&#8217;s parachutes were made of nylon, and the mystery &#8216;chute is silk. (I&#8217;m guessing that would make it much older than Cooper&#8217;s, possibly even World War II-vintage.)<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Cossey sounds like something of a dick. He apparently told some reporters that the &#8216;chute really was Cooper&#8217;s, just to yank their chains. I&#8217;m sure it must be tiresome being the go-to man whenever anyone turns up a rag that they think might be Cooper-related, but still&#8230; playing games like that strikes me as very uncool, especially when it might get somebody fired.<\/p>\n<p>And for the <i>other<\/i> record, I still think Cooper survived his jump, made off with the bulk of the cash, and spent the rest of his days drinking margaritas in the sun&#8230; it makes for a better story that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the possibility that a new clue to the fate of hijacker D.B. Cooper had been found, Earl Cossey, the man who packed the four parachutes given to Cooper on that night in 1971, says the &#8216;chute discovered by some children in Washington state is definitely not one of Cooper&#8217;s. Cooper&#8217;s parachutes were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}