Crews spend 4th day looking for skydiver in Wash.

January 6, 2013 @ 11:13 am

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) - Rescue crews are spending their fourth straight day looking for a skydiver who vanished during a jump above Washington's Cascade foothills.

King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West says searchers were back out near 4,200-foot Mount Si east of Seattle at first light Sunday, hoping to find 29-year-old Kurt Ruppert of Lake City, Fla.

Ruppert hasn't been seen since he jumped out of a helicopter at 6,500 feet Thursday afternoon, wearing a special wing suit with fabric under the arms to allow him to glide like a flying squirrel.

Crews narrowed their search area on Saturday, based on data from Ruppert's cell phone and the helicopter's flight path, but still haven't found any sign of him.


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  • CH wrote...
    Bigfoot will find him . . . .
    January 3, 2013 5:36 pm
    maybe?
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  • Lonestar wrote...
    Look out for a man in a squirrel suit
    January 4, 2013 8:53 am
    Probably searching for his nuts.
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  • dori monson fan wrote...
    the only thing more suicidal than hopping on a street motorcycle
    January 4, 2013 12:17 pm
    is pulling up the zipper on your squirrel suit.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    Who....
    January 4, 2013 3:15 pm
    is paying for this "search" for a body. Guessing WA taxpayers.
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  • hpygolkyone wrote...
    Stuck In A Tree?!.................
    January 5, 2013 1:00 pm
    Ewwwww......as in *SPLAT* stuck in a tree?

    On another note.......don't squirrels live in trees, anyway?

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