The search for Northwest Orient Flight 2501 has been called off after a 20-year search. The passenger plane carrying 58 people disappeared over Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950 and no victims were ...

Northwest Orient Flight 2501, a four-engine propeller-driven DC-4, left New York's LaGuardia Airport the evening of June 23 bound for Seattle with planned stops in Minneapolis and Spokane, Wash ...

The Northwest Orient Flight 2501 tragedy actually happened in 1950 but, since 2004, a dedicated team at non-profit organisation Michigan Shipwreck Association has engaged in a huge mission to find ...

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.

In 1950, Northwest Orient Flight 25-01 vanished over Lake Michigan during severe weather, resulting in the deaths of all 58 people on board. Despite extensive searches, the wreckage was never found.

From Seat 18C on the Northwest Orient flight, he told a flight attendant he had a bomb. If they gave him $200,000 – the equivalent of about $15,500,000 today – he would free the 36 passengers.

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.