Language Labyrinth

 Back in 1971, a man named Dan Cooper—a 40-something guy in a business suit—hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight going from Portland to Seattle. The guy claimed he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded a whopping $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills and four parachutes. After letting the passengers off in Seattle, the plane headed towards Mexico City with Cooper still on board. But here’s where things get wild: Cooper pulled off a crazy stunt and jumped out of the plane with a parachute and the ransom money! Even though nobody got hurt, the FBI took this seriously and went all-out trying to solve the case. They followed countless leads and talked to tons of people but still couldn’t crack it.  Enlarge image The whole “D.B. Cooper” name actually came from the media, not the FBI. They had questioned a guy with those initials, but he wasn’t their man. The media accidentally started calling the hijacker D.B. Cooper, when his name was actually Dan Cooper. Instead of correc...