dummy parachute in reading the article i am confused by the mention that the fbi believes that cooper jumped using a fake parachute if they do have a lot of evidence for this this would seem to be a very strong indicator that cooper is dead and i would expect a normal article which included that to reference that in the sections about people claiming to be cooper the fact that it is only mentioned in a few places in the article makes it seem like it is unsubstanciated or only from one source