Don Wilkinson, sales manager for Northwest Orient Airlines who was on board the Boeing 747 jetliner inbound from Hawaii, said the nine-hour flight from Hilo was “on time and uneventful ...

Dec. 8, 1972 A United Airlines 737 crashed into a house near Midway Airport on Dec. 8, 1972, killing 45 people, including two people in the house. (Don Casper/Chicago Tribune) ...

Northwest airplanes were fixtures in the skies above Asian cities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Manila, and Taipei. For this reason, Northwest Airlines became Northwest Orient Airlines in 1947. The ...

Federal Express: 1973 – 1994 The FedEx logo has undergone a significant evolution since the company's founding. The first logo reflected the company's original name, Federal Express, which founder ...

D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24 1971. During the flight, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanding $200,000 in ...

The discovery of a parachute possibly linked to D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in the 1970s, has reignited the FBI's investigation.

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper, who leaped out of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet more than 50 years ago in a daring heist, may have been found.

Life Local News Northwest Pacific NW Magazine Puget Sound Amazing WA artifacts in 1 place, from D.B. Cooper parachute to Rainier Beer Nov. 23, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Nov. 23, 2024 at 7:00 am By ...

He soon took a Job with Northwest Orient Airlines and did the hard work of loading and unloading luggage on Boeing 747’s in the cold Alaskan air and once again quickly became known amongst his ...

It rebrands itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. 1960 Moves into new headquarters at Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport).