Northwest Orient Airlines was the name under which former US legacy carrier Northwest Airlines operated until 1986. On the afternoon of November 24, the carrier's flight 305 served the short hop ...

A ransom demand, a mid-air parachute jump, and a clean disappearance into the night were all part of the shocking and meticulously planned hijacking. This case was also featured on Unsolved Mysteries, ...

A riveting tale of aviation's darkest unsolved mystery told from the perspective of the final flight attendant to leave the ...

Microsoft laid off 305 jobs in Redmond, Washington on Monday, according to a filing with the Washington State Employment Security Department (WSESD). The filing labeled the layoffs as permanent ...

May 27 marks the last day to book a Southwest Airlines flight with free checked bags, as the airline ends its decades-old policy starting Wednesday, according to The Seattle Times. After the ...

Though the name D.B. Cooper has taken on folk-hero status, it stems from a misidentification by the Associated Press in its initial reporting of the Nov. 24, 1971, hijacking of Northwest Orient Flight ...

She was working as a reservations agent for Northwest Orient Airlines in the early 1980s when her friend Richard Baxter suggested she try commercial real estate brokerage. At the time, two ...

In November 1971, he skyjacked a Northwest Orient flight. Cooper informed a flight attendant about 30 minutes after departure that he had explosive devices and demanded $200,000, four parachutes, and ...