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SEATTLE, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- D.B. Cooper, who parachuted from a hijacked plane over Washington state 40 years ago Thursday, may have worked with titanium, a scientific team says.
Tom Kaye, who led the team that examined a clip-on tie the hijacker left behind, said he and his colleagues found traces of the metal on the tie, KING-TV, Seattle, reported. Kaye said he believes Cooper may have been laid off in the upheaval after Boeing in Seattle canceled its Super Sonic Transport plane.
"In 1971 there was a big upheaval in the titanium industry with the cancelling of the SST project, which happened to be at Boeing, and that laid a lot of people off in the industry. So Cooper could have been part of the fallout," Kaye said.
Cooper, a passenger on a Portland-to-Seattle flight, claimed he had a bomb in his briefcase. At Sea-Tac Airport, he demanded and received $200,000 and four parachutes and then left the not long after its departure.
He has never been identified.
The FBI would not comment on the case beyond saying it had received the findings of Kaye's team.
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