Northwest Airlines announced Tuesday that it has retired the last of its Boeing 727 aircraft from scheduled service. Northwest began operating the three-engine 727s in 1964 and its 727 fleet ...

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 ...

On November 24, 1971, Dan Cooper, who would become known as DB Cooper due to a mistake by the media, skyjacked a Boeing 727 — Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 — headed from Portland to ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- More planes took off and landed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last year than at the newly expanded Detroit airport, but Detroit's Wayne County Airport still ...

ROMULUS, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - It's been 36 years since Northwest Flight 255 crashed after taking off from Detroit Metro Airport, killing 156 people. On August 16, 1987, the flight heading to ...