A problem with an engine on a Northwest Orient Airlines` Boeing 747 caused a few tense moments Sunday for a 177 passengers on a flight from Chicago to Tokyo. However, the plane returned safely to ...

An Arizona man says he can positively identify one of the original suspects in the 1971 NORJACK hijacking, a 92-year-old man living in Southern California, as the real D.B. Cooper, and even has ...

You know the recent stories exploring whether D.B. Cooper was a Boeing employee ... years since “Dan Cooper” hijacked that Northwest Orient Airlines jet, and somewhere between Seattle and ...

A former federal agent believes D.B. Cooper was actually Richard McCoy Jr., and he died in a shootout with the FBI. When skyjacker D.B. Cooper leaped from a 727-airplane clutching $200,000 in ...

Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and airline labor. U.S. Airlines are vying for attention as the Boeing 747 ... route system to the Orient -- remember, Northwest was then known ...

Let’s take a look at six of those mysteries: Northwest Orient Airlines ... 1979: Varig Boeing 707-323C A cargo aircraft of Varig Brazilian Airlines disappeared on Jan. 30, 1979, just 30 minutes ...

The crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 took the lives ... A photograph of the actual plane — a stretch Boeing 727 — was precision-engraved into the granite of the bench by ...

This undated artist’s sketch shows D.B. Cooper, based on the recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet ... (The first Boeing 747 to land in Cuba was a flight ...