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Northwest Airlines (1984–2009) Delta Air Lines (2009) Northwest Airlink was the brand name of Northwest Airlines ' regional airline service, which flew turboprop and regional jet aircraft from Northwest's domestic hubs in Minneapolis, Detroit, and Memphis. Service was primarily to small-to-medium-sized cities and towns where larger aircraft ...
Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 was a flight from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport to International Falls Airport in International Falls, Minnesota with a scheduled intermediate stop at Chisholm-Hibbing Airport in Hibbing, Minnesota. On December 1, 1993, the Jetstream 31, operated by Express Airlines I as Northwest Airlink, collided ...
Website. www.nwa.com. Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. [1] The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013. [2] [3]
A Northwest Airlines Airbus A320. Northwest Airlines was a major United States airline which existed from 1926 until 2010, when it merged with Delta Air Lines and became part of Delta Air Lines fleet. At the time of the merger it had a total of 309 aircraft. It was also the last U.S. airline to have a dedicated cargo fleet and routes.
5. On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, operating under the Northwest Airlink banner, was a repositioning flight [a] of an empty 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 (aircraft registration N8396A [3] ). The aircraft was built in 2000. It had accumulated 10,168 hours of flight time and completed 9,613 flight cycles [b] at the time of the crash.
Mesaba (from the Ojibwe language, misaabe: "Soaring Eagle") [4] [5] was founded in 1944 by Gordy Newstrom in the Mesabi Range city of Coleraine, Minnesota and started operations in the same year under the name of Mesaba Aviation. It had one airplane, a Piper Cub purchased for $1,300, and it was used to shuttle employees of the Blandin Paper ...
Flight. Northwest Airlink Flight 2268 was crewed by Captain David W. Sherer (45) and First Officer Shawn D. Manningham (25). [1] At 2:30 p.m. after being cleared for a visual approach to Runway 21R and while just 60–70 feet above the ground, Flight 2268 banked left in a descent and then rolled right. The twin-engine turboprop aircraft struck ...