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0. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 aboard made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time.
Flight 307 took off from Washington, D.C., at 12:30 CST (18:30 UTC) on Tuesday, March 7, 1950, destined for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, via Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Madison, Rochester, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul. On board were 10 passengers and 1,799 lb (816 kg) of cargo. The flight was delayed in Detroit by an hour and 23 minutes for a ...
On the evening of June 23, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, carrying 55 passengers and three crew, left the LaGuardia Airport in New York City for Minneapolis. [20] Although a preflight review of the weather revealed thunderstorms and possible squalls along the route of the flight, it was not a great concern to the crew.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501; Northwest Airlines Flight 4422; Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231; C. D. B. Cooper; 1985 Copenhagen bombings; N.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan en route from New York City to Seattle. Light debris, upholstery and human body fragments were found floating in the lake, but the airframe and identifiable remains of the 55 passengers and three crew have never been located, and the cause of the accident is still unknown. 26 ...
ASN seems to incorrectly use Northwest Orient for incidents that happened years before the airline added Orient to its name. This wouldn't be the first time I've noticed errors—minor ones—on ASN, either, so it shouldn't be treated as the final word. Here on wikipedia there's precedence for using just Northwest in earlier crashes before the ...
The Disappearance of Flight 2501: 2004 4 Icebound Found: The Ordeal of the S. S. Michigan: 2005 5 Planes, Trains, and Ships: 2007 6 She died a Hard death: The sinking of the Hennepin: 2007 7 Freshwater Monsoon 2008 8 Raising the Alvin Clark; Forty years of Perspective 2009 9 A Tale of Two Schooners 2010 10 Lost on the Lady Elgin 2011 11
This was a cargo flight. Wreckage was found on 18 November 1966 some 200 km (120 mi) south of Santiago. July 25, 1966: Douglas DC-3 3: Unknown Pacific Ocean 840 km off the US coast: Delivery flight. March 5, 1967: Grumman HU-16E Albatross (1240) 6: Unknown Gulf of Mexico (off of Florida)