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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northwest Airlines Corp., pummeled by high labor costs and soaring fuel prices, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, entering Chapter 11 on the same day as its larger rival, Delta Air Lines Inc.

The crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 took the lives of Capt. John Lagorio, 35, of Edina, Minnesota, First Officer Walter Zadra, 32, and Second Officer James Cox, 33, both of Seattle.

When Helen Jacobson Richardson thinks back on her career as one of Northwest Airlines’ first stewardesses, many of her memories are tied to Rochester and Mayo Clinic. After all, Rochester had ...