One of the possibilities not examined by the previous post is that the parachutist, the pilot, stands for more than just fear or the beast within the boys.
If we look at more than just the irony that he died by violent means and look at his origin "a sign [that] came down from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it," we can see that his violence, the fact that the "grown ups" were in the midst of an orgy of violence, suggests that this messenger is bringing the beast to them, the beast isn't just within the boys, it is also in the men that are supposed to be the ones keeping civilization together.
So we can also look a the parachutist as another symbol for the evil, the beast, that not only resides in the boys or on the island, but is present in all the most sophisticated and "grown-up" aspects of the world as well.
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