On Nov. 24, 1971, Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 took off from Portland, Oregon at 14:50 bound for Seattle. The Boeing 727 had 37 passengers onboard and six crew members. The crew was Captain ...

On April Fools’ Day, when China Airlines’ new Boeing 727 climbed into the early morning smog that blanketed Taipei’s Sung Shan Airport, 14 paying passengers were scattered among the craft ...

In April, 1972, Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. hijacked a Boeing 727 (the same plane Cooper used), got his ransom money and parachute, and jumped off via the plane’s aft stairs. It was the exact same ...

Don Wilkinson, sales manager for Northwest Orient Airlines who was on board the Boeing 747 jetliner inbound from Hawaii, said the nine-hour flight from Hilo was “on time and uneventful ...

Boeing's quality issues and Airbus' supply chain problems have created a global jet shortage. American Airlines cut routes amid delayed 787s, while Ryanair lowered its capacity outlook for 2025.

“Stone told officials of Northwest Orient Airlines that the propellers of the plane failed to reverse as he made a normal ...

Capt. George A. Stone, pilot of a Northwest Orient Airlines Stratocruiser, told officials the propellers of his aircraft, which was carrying 68 people including him, failed to reverse as he ...

An Avelo Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Hollywood Burbank Airport on 07 April 2021 ... Early on, I joined Northwest Orient, which later became Northwest. I was a key contributor during the merger between ...

For this reason, Northwest Airlines became Northwest Orient Airlines in 1947. The airline had an extensive network and grew into a fierce Pacific competitor. Many ... A passenger who bought his ticket ...

A man, known only as DB Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727, demanding a ransom of $200,000 in cash and two parachutes ...

He claimed that he got hold of the parachute that Cooper used to escape from the Boeing 727, as even an in-depth Netflix documentary about the case couldn't shed a definitive light on his identity.

STONY POINT ‒ Fifty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Orient Airline Flight 6231 disappeared from JFK Airport’s radar somewhere over Harriman State Park. A report from JFK was sent to ...