It adopted the name “Northwest Orient” for advertising purposes. ... Wings Holdings (later Northwest Airlines Corporation) acquired NWA Inc. at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion.

Oct. 22, 2009— -- Two pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight Wednesday were apparently so distracted that they missed their airport and kept flying for 150 miles before landing the plane and ...

Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines' Airbus A320 that ground to a halt on the runway in Fargo, North Dakota on the night of 20 October, after a nosewheel malfunction, were not warned about a ...

It rebrands itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. 1960 Moves into new headquarters at Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport). 1970 Introduces the Boeing 747 jumbo ...

A mysterious hijacker 'DB Cooper' held the Northwest Orient Airlines flight 53 years ago for $200,000 ransom, and parachuted out of the aircraft, never to be seen again. Now, the parachute used by ...

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 ...

NTSB reports that a Northwest Airlines A320-200 with 145 passengers and six crew received ``substantial'' damage after an aborted takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Mar. 17.