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            A lot of crimes never get solved. The case of Dan Cooper is one tha hasn’t been. It was an evening in late November in 1971. On a short flight between Portland and Seattle, the flight attendant was handed a note by a mysterious middle-aged man dressed in a dark suit. The flight attendant thought he was making a romantic advance, soshe slipped the unread note into her pocket. The man leaned closer to her, saying, “Miss, you’d better look at the note. I have a bomb.” He then opened his briefcase so that she could see several red cylinders and a lot of wires. The man, who used the alias “Dan Cooper,” was demanding $200,000, four parachutes, and a plane that would fly him to Mexico.

            The plane proceeded to seattle with none of the other passengers even aware that it was being hijacked. The other passengers got off the plane, and “Cooper” got what he was demanding. He received the $20 bills that he had been photocopied by FBI agents so that they could easily be identified. Then the plane was refueled and took off for Mexico.

            A few minutes later, Cooper ordered the flight attendant to go to the cockpit and stay there. As she was leaving, she noticed him trying to tie something around his waist-presumably the bag of money. Then he opened the plane’s rear stairway and jumped out of the plane. The crew felt pressure bumps that were probably caused by Cooper’s jumping off the stairway. When Cooper jumped, the air temperature was seven degrees below zero. He was wearing no survival gear and only light, casual shoes on his feet.

            Cooper has not been seen or heard from since taht night. Who was Cooper? Did he get away with his plan? Or was he kille tring to commit the perfect crime?

            The authorities speculate that Cooper landed near Ariel, a small town near the Columbia River nort of Portland. Only one real clue has been discovered. Eight and a half years later, an eight-year-old boy who was digging in a sandbank found $5,800 of Cooper’s money. It was only a few inches below the suface of the earth, but it had decayed so much that only  the picture and the serial numbers on the bills were visible. Decaying rubber bands were found along with money, indicating that the cash must have been deposited there before the bands fell apart. Since then, the area has been searched thoroughly, but no trace of Cooper has been found.

            So what really happened? Many investigators belive that Cooper had to have been killed by the combination of the weather conditions and impact of his fall. If this is true, though, why have none of the man’s remains ever been discovered? Is more information known about this case than has been released? Is Cooper’s body in some remote part of the wilderness area into which he jumped, or is he living a luxurious life under an alias somewhere and drivin a Rolls-Royce? Did he have the $5,800 buried by an associate in order to throw the authorities off the track? Or did he bury it himself?

            Cooper has become a legend. His story has been told in books and articles and even a movie. In Ariel, the small town near where he might have landed, patrons of a tavern still celebrate the anniversary of the hijacking every year. The bar’s owner, Dona Elliot, says, “ He did get away with it . . . so far.” Others don’t tink so. Jerry Thomas, a retired soldier who has been working independently on the case, thinks that Cooper didn’t survive the fall and that his body will eventually be found.” I know there is something out here,” he says. “there has to be.”

            The mystery goes on.

Title of article is Did He Get Away With It ?

Passive voice :

Source : Maurer, Jay. (2006). Focus On Grammar. White Plains: Longman.

        Passive voice (kalimat pasif) adalah kalimat yang subyeknya dikenai suatu pekerjaan. Kalimat pasif adalah kalimat yang diawali dengan imbuhan “di-” dan “ter-” dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Namun secara umum, kalimat pasif Bahasa Inggris dibentuk dengan menambahkan “to be” sebelum “V3”. Walaupun menurut statistik bahwa kalimat pasif mendominasi sekitar 60 % dalam Bahasa Inggris , namun kita harus kapan kita menggunakan  kalimat pasif.

Fungsinya adalah sebagai berikut:

Sumber :

Purnomo, wahyu. 2005. English Grammar And Everyday Conversation. Surabaya: Amelia

http://www.belajarbahasainggrisyuk.com/kegunaan-kalimat-pasif/

http://englishtips4u.com/2012/11/01/engclass-passive-voice/