1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,460 Visita Mikael Books en Facebook para ver más contenido de libros en inglés. 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:08,180 Unit 6. Page 86. Read. 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,240 Did he get away with it? 4 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:14,720 Have you ever heard of Dan Cooper? 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:21,960 He was the central figure in a crime that happened decades ago and still hasn't been solved. 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:29,260 Late in November of 1971, on a short flight between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, 7 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:35,680 a flight attendant was handed a note by a mysterious middle-aged man dressed in a dark suit. 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,240 Leaning close to her, he said, 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,060 Miss, you'd better look at that note. I have a bomb. 10 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:49,020 He then opened his briefcase so that she could see several red cylinders and a lot of wires. 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:55,300 The man, who used the alias Dan Cooper, was demanding $200,000, 12 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,840 worth about $1,160,000, 13 00:00:59,260 --> 00:01:04,980 four parachutes and a plane to fly him to Mexico. 14 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:12,180 The plane proceeded to Seattle with none of the other passengers even aware it was being hijacked. 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,560 The passengers got off the plane and Cooper got what he was demanding, 16 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:26,980 $200,000, all in $20 bills that had been photocopied by FBI agents so they could easily be identified. 17 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:28,980 Then the plane was refueled. 18 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:35,060 The plane was refueled and took off for Mexico with only Cooper and five crew members on board. 19 00:01:35,980 --> 00:01:42,420 Once the flight was underway, Cooper ordered the flight attendant to go to the cockpit and stay there. 20 00:01:43,220 --> 00:01:49,700 As she was leaving, she noticed him trying to tie something around his waist, presumably the bag of money. 21 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,380 Then he opened the plane's rear stairway and jumped out of the plane. 22 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,240 The crew felt pressure bumps that were probably caused, 23 00:01:59,260 --> 00:02:00,380 but Cooper's jump. 24 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,160 The air temperature was seven degrees below zero. 25 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,920 Cooper was not equipped with any survival gear and was wearing only light casual shoes. 26 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,940 Cooper has not been seen or heard from since that night. 27 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:17,500 Who was he? 28 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:19,720 Did he get away with his plan? 29 00:02:20,220 --> 00:02:24,260 Or was he killed trying to commit the perfect crime? 30 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,880 Authorities speculate that Cooper landed near Ariel, 31 00:02:29,260 --> 00:02:32,400 a small town near the Columbia River, north of Portland. 32 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,980 Only one real clue has been discovered. 33 00:02:36,540 --> 00:02:45,980 In 1980, an eight-year-old boy inadvertently dug up $5,880 of Cooper's money near a riverbank. 34 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,840 It was only a few inches below the surface of the earth, 35 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,460 but it had decayed so much that only the picture and the serial numbers on the bills were visible. 36 00:02:57,700 --> 00:02:59,240 Rotting rubber bands were found, 37 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:06,220 indicating that the cash had to have been deposited there before the bands fell apart. 38 00:03:07,660 --> 00:03:10,540 Since then, the area has been searched thoroughly, 39 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:13,460 but no trace of Cooper has been found. 40 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,240 What really happened? 41 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,820 Many investigators believe that Cooper must have been killed 42 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:25,340 by the combination of the weather conditions and the impact of his fall. 43 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:28,960 But if so, why have none of his remains, 44 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,400 ever been discovered? 45 00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:34,220 Is more information known than has been revealed? 46 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,680 Is Cooper's body in some remote part of the wilderness area into which he jumped? 47 00:03:40,140 --> 00:03:43,860 Or is he living a luxurious life under an alias somewhere? 48 00:03:44,820 --> 00:03:51,720 Did he have the $5,880 buried by an accomplice to throw the authorities off the track? 49 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:54,080 Or did he bury it himself? 50 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:58,080 After all these years, one can legitimately ask, 51 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,460 why this case hasn't been solved. 52 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:04,300 Cooper has become a legend. 53 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:07,740 His story has been told in books and articles, 54 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,180 and even in the movie, 55 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:11,240 The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper. 56 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,140 In Ariel, the hijacking is still celebrated every year. 57 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,600 Notwithstanding the FBI's claims that Cooper could not have survived the jump, 58 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:23,620 some believe that he did. 59 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,920 Local bar owner Donna Elliott says, 60 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,060 he did get away, 61 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:29,780 so far. 62 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,040 Others don't think so. 63 00:04:32,780 --> 00:04:37,480 Jerry Thomas, a retired soldier who has been working independently on the case, 64 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,240 thinks that Cooper didn't survive the fall, 65 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:42,760 and his body will eventually be found. 66 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:46,280 I know there is something out here, he says. 67 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:47,600 There has to be. 68 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,160 Will this case ever get solved? 69 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:52,580 Who knows? 70 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:54,880 As of July 2016, 71 00:04:55,580 --> 00:04:57,680 none of the missing money had been recovered. 72 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:01,960 Interest in the case of Dan Cooper has not diminished, 73 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:08,340 and it remains the only unsolved air piracy case in American aviation.