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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 :
1.
The flight attendant was handed a note
by a mysterious middle-aged man dressed in a dark suit.
2.
He received the $20 bills that he had
been photocopied by FBI agents.
3.
The crew felt pressure bumps that were
probably caused by Cooper’s jumping off the stairway.
4.
Cooper had to have been killed by the
combination of the weather conditions and impact of his fall.
5.
Did he have the $5,800 buried by an
associate in order to throw the authorities off the track?
Source : Maurer, Jay.
(2006). Focus On Grammar. White Plains: Longman.
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