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11. Vanished without a trace!. Reading - номер B, страница 138.

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B You are going to read about two more mysterious disappearances. Read the newspaper articles quickly, then copy the fact files and complete them.

Kidnap ruled out on ghost yacht

Police investigating the case of the Australian ghost yacht, Zak III say they do not believe the crew were kidnapped.

The disappearance of Bob Hatton (56), Peter Dunstable (69) and his brother Jim (63) has baffled police since April 2007. They said goodbye to friends at the East Coast port of Airlie Beach and were planning to sail to Townsville. They never got there. Their empty boat was found off the Australian coast and when police went on board, they expected to find a murder scene. Instead, they found a scene of eerie calm.

The abandoned boat was neat and tidy. The men's clothes were folded on their beds. The table was laid for dinner. They can't have been planning to go anywhere because a laptop was being recharged and there was a cup of coffee next to it. It must have been just another normal day on board when tragedy struck. But what kind of tragedy?

'There were no signs that anyone had boarded the vessel,' said a police spokesman. 'They must have fallen overboard and drowned.' But Jean Gregory, Hatton's niece, doesn't accept the police's view of things. 'It just doesn't add up,' argues Miss Gregory, 'They were experienced sailors. They can't have fallen over ... not all three of them!'

The police say there may have been a sudden storm that knocked the crew off, but Gregory doesn't believe that theory either. 'They couldn't have been in any immediate danger,' she says, 'because their lifejackets were still folded up in the cabin.' Some think pirates may have boarded the ship and kidnapped the crew. 'There's no evidence to support such a theory,' said the police spokesman. 'Perhaps it is simply that they should have been more careful.'

FACT FILE 1

Name(s):

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

Farmer's discovery could solve 40-year-old mystery

A parachute unearthed by a farmer's tractor last week could be a clue to one of the world's great unsolved crimes.

In 1972, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded flight 305 in Portland. Once in the air, he passed a note to the flight attendant which read, 'I have a bomb. You are being hijacked'. Cooper forced the pilot to land in Seattle. Once on the ground, he demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. The authorities agreed to his demands. Cooper let the passengers go and the plane took off again.

Shortly after take-off, Cooper asked the pilot to keep flying south, towards Mexico. When they were flying somewhere over the state of Washington, he made the flight attendant go to the flight deck with the pilots. That was the last time he was ever seen. Despite flying through the middle of a storm, Cooper opened the back door of the plane and jumped out. Of course, he took the ransom with him. A huge police search was carried out and investigations lasted for years afterwards, but Cooper – or whoever he was – had disappeared without a trace. Until now.

Police are examining the parachute, but haven't yet decided if it is Cooper's. But even if investigators do decide it's his, the mystery still remains: is he dead or alive? Some say that Cooper couldn't possibly have survived such a jump through a thunderstorm. Others say he can't have died, because his body ought to have been found. It never was.

Over the years there have been countless theories about who Cooper was. The police have a suspect list with over 1,000 names. Perhaps the farmer's discovery will help to solve the mystery.

FACT FILE 2

Name(s):

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

Решение.

Решение 2.

Заполните таблицы фактов на основе представленных статей.

Ответ:

FACT FILE 1

Name(s): Bob Hatton, Peter Dunstable, Jim (Hatton)
Имена: Боб Хаттон, Питер Данстейбл, Джим (Хаттон)

Year of disappearance: 2007
Год исчезновения: 2007

Where last seen: Airlie Beach, East Coast port
Где видели в последний раз: Эрли-Бич, порт на Восточном побережье

FACT FILE 2

Name(s): Dan Cooper
Имена: Дэн Купер

Year of disappearance: 1972
Год исчезновения: 1972

Where last seen: Somewhere over the state of Washington (when he jumped from the plane)
Где видели в последний раз: Где-то над штатом Вашингтон (когда он выпрыгнул из самолета)