Northwest Airways -- Northwest during World War II -- Air services to the Orient and the 1950s -- Northwest Orient from 1960 to 1986 -- Southern airways, Wisconsin Central, and North Central -- Hughes ...

In 1950, Northwest Orient Flight 25-01 vanished over Lake Michigan during severe weather, resulting in the deaths of all 58 people on board. Despite extensive searches, the wreckage was never found.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” — but who soon became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper” — ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — In a shaded section of an old cemetery in South Haven, a boulder with a black inscription signifies a mass grave where a number of body parts from those aboard Northwest Orient ...

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 police. A ...

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 ransom ...

SEATTLE - A man who called himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest 50 years ago. On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper bought a one-way ticket from Portland ...