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 ...

The world geography high school teacher had caught Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 in Montana and stopped in Spokane and Portland, before a final puddle jump to Seattle.

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.

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.

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.

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper, who leaped out of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet more than 50 years ago in a daring heist, may have been found.

Joan "Inky" Carter Medlin died on September 20th, 2024 at the age of 95. At her side were her daughters, Linda and Susan. Joan was born on March 21st, 1929 in Chula Vista, CA, to Walter Aaron and ...