Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.

Northwest Flight 2501 crashed into Lake Michigan 75 years ago this week. But clues uncovered in 20 years of searching lessen ...

Investigators have decided to end a desperate 20-year search for a plane which crashed into a lake - killing all the 58 people on board. The Northwest Orient Flight 2501 tragedy actually happened ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 prop-liner that flew daily transcontinental routes connecting the east coast of New ... which means that the aircraft must have struck the water at ...

Northwest Orient Airlines menu, c.1970. The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 ended government control of airlines. Northwest continued to thrive in the more competitive market.

It rebrands itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. 1960 Moves into new headquarters at Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport). 1970 Introduces the Boeing 747 jumbo ...

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 ...

In June 1989, Wings Holdings (later Northwest Airlines Corporation) acquired NWA Inc. at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion. Struggling with debt from the buyout, Northwest sought financial aid ...

Dan Cooper, a middle-aged white man, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971 on a flight between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Cooper bought a one-way tic ...

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 ...