New report from witness: Possible smoke, parachute drifted toward Little North Mountain, say police on scanner. #F15jetcrash

— wmramsey (@wmramsey) August 27, 2014

OK, I was looking at this first photo this morning. I don’t know the first thing about how ejection seats work, but I had noticed a very thin smoke line off to the left of the main plume. I enlarged the picture and it goes all the way to the ground. Could that be it?