C.A.L.’s management was understandably distressed: it was the inaugural jet flight ... 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 — excep ...

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. (Chicago Tribune ...

Post college years led her to the skies as a flight attendant for Northwest Orient Airlines, flying across the country on domestic runs in the age before jets. Frequent trips to New York were ...

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

we just solved it,” he says. 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 ...

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

A hike to the Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 crash site is planned by Wren and Scott Salotto, who helped install a historic marker at the site in 2015 when he worked for the County of Rockland.

Languages: English. 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 ...

The unassuming-looking man who would come to be known as D.B. Cooper bought a one-way ticket on Northwest Orient Airlines from Portland ... Cooper handed a flight attendant a note saying he ...