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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.