In the episode, host and explorer Josh Gates investigates the 70-year-old mystery of Northwest Orient flight 2501’s disappearance over the waters of Lake Michigan in 1950. In total 58 lives were ...

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 airport on November 24, 1971. After boarding, he bought a ...

Northwest Orient Flight 2501 crashed somewhere off the coast of South Haven, killing all 58 souls on board. Even though none of the plane crash victims were from Michigan, the remains recovered ...

On Nov. 24, 1971, night before Thanksgiving, a man identified as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Boeing 727 flight bound for Seattle. He told the pilots to circle around a few times before ...