On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing 727 owned and operated by Northwest Orient Airlines - while it was flying from Portland ...

The FBI has released new files regarding the infamous plane hijacker, DB Cooper. Back in 1971, a man who used the fake name Dan Cooper threatened to blow up the aircraft he was traveling on, if his ...

It's a Northwest mystery that has never been solved. A man who called himself "Dan Cooper" paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle at the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at the Portland ...

Whoever boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 in Portland on Nov. 24, 1971 -- and then parachuted out of the Boeing 727 hours later with $200,000 in ransom -- had stumped the feds once and for all time.

A mysterious hijacker 'DB Cooper' held the Northwest Orient Airlines flight 53 years ago for $200,000 ransom, and parachuted out of the aircraft, never to be seen again. Now, the parachute used by ...

The endless quest to find D.B. Cooper continues -- on the big screen. America’s current obsession with true-crime stories means the unsolved 1971 skyjacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305 out of ...

It adopted the name “Northwest Orient” for advertising purposes. ... Wings Holdings (later Northwest Airlines Corporation) acquired NWA Inc. at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion.

MINNEAPOLIS — Looking back at his career, retired Northwest Airlines Captain Woody Fountain has a lot of good memories. He is a pilot who earned his wings and a place in the history books.