Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 prop-liner that flew daily transcontinental routes connecting the east coast of New York City to the far west coast of Seattle, Washington when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

STONY POINT ‒ Fifty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Orient Airline Flight 6231 disappeared from JFK Airport’s radar somewhere over Harriman State Park. A report from JFK was sent to police.

Scott and his crew were flying a Northwest Orient Airlines jet when they were hijacked on November 24th, 1971. A passenger named Dan Cooper -- later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper -- boarded ...

SEATTLE - A man who called himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest 50 years ago. On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper bought a one-way ticket from ...