Two children from Southwest Washington have discovered what could be the parachute used by infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971, when he leapt from a Mexico-bound plane with $200,000 taped to his body.
The kids saw the chute sticking from the ground where their father had just been grading a road. They yanked it free as far as they could from the soil, then cut its cords with a scissors.
The children, realizing the artifact's potential importance after having seen something about Cooper on TV, urged their father to call the FBI.
The feds are now asking experts to come forward and help them determine if the chute could have been the one used by Cooper.
The only definitive evidence ever found that Cooper survived his bail-out was $5,880 of his money, which was discovered in a bag in a beach along the Columbia river.
