In our ongoing look into the history of aviation, we examine the day when the Lockheed L-188 Electra ... with American ...

Fifty years ago, on St. Patrick’s Day 1960, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 took ... It didn’t make it. The plane, a Lockheed Electra L-188 turboprop, broke into pieces in the skies ...

Seeing that promotions in the banking business came slowly, she took a friend’s suggestion and applied for a Northwest Orient Airlines flight ... first worked on an Electra 188, a four-engine ...

Let’s take a look at six of those mysteries: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 ... as to what happened to the twin-engine Lockheed Electra after Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan offered ...