Boeing's parade of 7X7 names (the 727, 737, 747, and on and on) have been around for decades. Where did they come from, and ...

The enigma behind Cooper - the man who jumped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands ... Petersen worked as a Boeing subcontractor at a titanium plant and fits the evidence ...

Stone, pilot of a Northwest Orient Airlines Stratocruiser ... (Chicago Tribune) A United Airlines 727 descending at night to land at O’Hare flew into Lake Michigan about 20 miles east of ...

Long before the days of ULCCs (at least the modern iteration), a small carrier called Casino Express Airlines launched out of Elko, Nevada. Utilizing a small fleet of Boeing 737-200s ... Early on, I ...

A man, known only as DB Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727, demanding a ransom of $200,000 in cash and two parachutes. After receiving his demands, Cooper parachuted out of ...

Dan Gryder claims that he got his hands on the parachute which the elusive hijacker used to pull off his elaborate escape from the Boeing ... onboard the Northwest Orient Airlines flight.

STONY POINT ‒ Fifty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Orient Airline Flight 6231 disappeared ... A boom was heard in nearby communities. The Boeing 727 was heading from New York City to ...

The discovery of a parachute possibly linked to D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines ... While the Boeing 727 flight was in the air, Cooper handed air hostess ...

On November 24, 1971, a man known only as Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland to ... critical clues about Cooper’s fate after he leapt from the Boeing 727. It remains ...

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 ... Cooper bought a one-way ticket on Northwest Orient Airlines from Portland, Ore., ...