Delta Ship 6301 made its first flight with Eagan-based Northwest Airlines in December 1989 Expand ... In 2002, the jumbo jet was flying Flight 85 from Detroit to Tokyo when it experienced a ...

Northwest Airlines Flight 85 was cruising at 35,000 feet last month on a routine flight from Detroit to Tokyo when something apparently broke in the rudder-control system on the tail. The jet ...

The flight crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 85 on Oct. 9, 2002--Capts. John Hanson and Frank Geib and First Officers W. Michael Fagan and David V. Smith--has won an Air Line Pilots Assn.

the man suspected of trying to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet as it approached Detroit on Dec. 25 by setting off explosives smuggled aboard the flight. Had Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab been able ...