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 ...

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 ...

On November 24, 1971, Dan Cooper, who would become known as DB Cooper due to a mistake by the media, skyjacked a Boeing 727 — Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 — headed from Portland to ...

However, after the infamous D.B. Cooper incident wherein he hijacked — then parachuted into history — from a Northwest Airlines 727 flight in November 1971, Boeing required that the plane be ...

In US airspace on November 24, 1971, a mysterious person named D.B. Cooper took over Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305, a Boeing 727. He then disappeared after jumping from the plane, leaving ev… ...

On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 as it was en route to Seattle. He threatened to blow up the plane with a homemade bomb, and he demanded $200,000 and four ...

The hijacking. In November 1971, a man who bought a ticket as Dan Cooper (made D.B. Cooper due to a press miscommunication) hijacked and held for $200,000 ransom a Northwest Orient Airlines flight ...

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 ...

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 has accelerated by one year the delivery of five Boeing 757-200s and five Airbus A319/A320 aircraft from 2002 to allow for early retirement of its Boeing 727-200s. The 727s will ...

Air travelers will no longer be able to enjoy the Boeing 727’s distinctive design after the jet made its last commercial passenger flight.