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On November 24, 1971,
a very curious thing
happened. A man using the
name Dan Cooper bought
s a plane ticket for a short
flight across the state of
Washington. Nobody knew
it at the time, but Dan
Cooper was not his real
10 name.

After the plane took off,
Cooper told a flight attendant
that he was carrying a
bomb. He demanded
1
1s $200,.000 and parachutes. 2
The pilot sent a message to the airport, and they called the police. When the
3
plane landed, cooper allowed au of the passengers to get off safely. once
the money and parachutes were delivered, the plane took off again.

Only the pilot, copilot, and one flight attendant were on the plane with Cooper.
20 He told the pilot to fly to Mexico City. He gave instructions to fly low to the
ground and slowly.
cooper then put the whole crew in the cockpit at the front of the plane.
4
He tied the money to his body. He opened a door at the back of the plane. The
night was cold, rainy, and pitch black. It must not have worried him, as he
5
2s jumped into the darkness.

No one ever saw Cooper or the money again. The police have talked to
hundreds of people about the case, but it still is unsolvetL

1 A bomb is a dangerous weapon that explodes.
2 A parachute is something that lets a person jump from an airplane and float safely to the ground.
3 A pilot is a person who flies an airplane.
4 The cockpit is the place in a plane where the pilot sits.
5 If a place is pitch black, it is completely dark.

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