The FBI has acquired what is believed to be the parachute used by thief and hijacker D.B. Cooper in his 1971 escape from an airplane.

After the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II, the man believed to be Cooper, provided the FBI with the parachute in September 2023, the case into the mysterious 1971 hijacking was reopened, RadarOnline reported. The FBI also acquired a harness and a skydiving logbook.

McCoy, a former Army soldier, was arrested in 1972 for a similar hijacking but was never definitively tied to the Cooper case.

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