The crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 took the lives of Capt. John Lagorio, 35, of Edina, Minnesota, First Officer Walter Zadra, 32, and Second Officer James Cox, 33, both of Seattle.

A former federal agent believes D.B. Cooper was actually Richard McCoy Jr., and he died in a shootout with the FBI. When skyjacker D.B. Cooper leaped from a 727-airplane clutching $200,000 in ...

They learned about Fight 6231 and safety measures learned from the tragedy during their own training. A hike to the Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 crash site is planned by Wren and Scott ...

A mysterious hijacker known as DB Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight 53 years ago, demanding a $200,000 ransom before parachuting out of the aircraft and disappearing without a trace.