for Northwest Airlines. Don was assigned to work Flight 293. “There was a knock at the door and it was a colleague of my husband’s and a personal friend, our cabin services supervisor, ...

When Flight 293 crashed into the Gulf of Alaska in June 1963, it wasn’t the first time a Northwest Airlines DC-7C serving as a military charter between McChord and Elmendorf Air Force bases had ...

On June 3rd, 1963, a heartbreaking and mysterious story quietly began at McChord Air Force Base aboard a Northwest Airlines ... the tarmac at McChord, Flight 293 and all 101 souls on board ...

The pilot at the controls of Flight 293 had thousands of hours of experience stretching back to the 1930s. Captain Albert Olsen was a veteran employee of Northwest Airlines, who had served as ...

The pilot at the controls of Flight 293 had thousands of hours of experience stretching back to the 1930s. Captain Albert Olsen was a veteran employee of Northwest Airlines, who had served as ...

Flight 293 left McChord Air Base in Tacoma at 8:30am on June 3rd 1963... but it never arrived. Something went wrong and at some point the plane plunged and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Historian Feliks Banel has been piecing together the mystery of Flight 293 and its aftermath for ... the plane and crew from a civilian airline, Northwest Orient. "But it didn't take off from ...

A few months before aviator Charles Lindbergh made his record-breaking transatlantic flight, Northwest Airways ... law on April 16, 1934 as Northwest Airlines, Inc. and introduced service to ...