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DB Cooper's parachute found?

The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwest Washington state to determine whether it might have been used by famed plane hijacker DB Cooper, sketched below.

Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading a road, agent Larry Carr said Tuesday. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors.