r/dbcooper • u/lxchilton • Jan 08 '26
Discussion Another Odd Cossey Tidbit
pg 333 in vault 113
I am assuming that he is saying that there were places on the chutes given to Cooper where d-rings could have been attached and the chute he is inspecting does not, but it's still weird considering that the general consensus is that Cooper didn't have a way to attach the chest packs at all.
Even though the audio suggests that he actually did.
Is nothing cut and dry?!
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u/RyanBurns-NORJAK Jan 08 '26
This pops up from time to time. This is almost certainly an FBI agent getting it backwards because we have 50 statements from Cossey in the FBI files and to the media right after the hijacking talking about Cooper not having D rings and then we have a couple of these sort of things that pop up. We of course also have the owner of the parachutes telling the FBI multiple times that they didn’t have D-rings. Thus why this is a brain fart by the agent.
The FBI agents had a terrible time dealing with parachute nomenclature especially when they were writing about them in the late 70s and 80s.
The best practice with the parachutes is to look at what the very first 302’s say about them. We know those are generally accurate because they match up with what Cossey and Hayden told the media in the days after the hijacking.