The Lake Michigan Triangle has captivated the imagination of explorers and historians alike with its eerie tales of disappearing ships, missing planes, and strange phenomena. Often compared to the ...

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 ...

Civil Aeronautics Board was in its second month of studying requests by 18 U.S. airlines to fly the Far East route, currently dominated by Pan Am and Northwest Orient Airlines.

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 ...

At least 16 people from the Chicago area were aboard Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport on Feb. 12, 1963.

May 17, 1937 - January 25, 2025 Karen Sydney Carlsen Rogers passed away peacefully of natural causes at the age of 87 surrounded by family members ...

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 ...

D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24 1971. During the flight, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanding $200,000 in ...

On November 24, 1971, a man registered as Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington.

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 ...

The discovery of a parachute possibly linked to D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in the 1970s, has reignited the FBI's investigation.