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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northwest Airlines today announced that it retired the last aircraft of its Boeing 727 fleet from scheduled service when flight 560 arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Object Details Author Jones, Geoff 1949-Subject Northwest Airlines Corporation History Contents Northwest Airways -- Northwest during World War II -- Air services to the Orient and the 1950s -- ...

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 ...