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 ...

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.

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 ...

1926 Col. Lewis Brittin founds Northwest Airways as a Michigan corporation to carry air mail from the Twin Cities to Chicago. Operations are based at Speedway Flying Field on the site of today's ...

THIS is ‘D.B. Cooper’ — we don’t know his real name. He pulled off a heist in our skies and has never been caught. How did he do it? One man has pulled this off seamlessly in the past, albeit in ...

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 ...

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