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A Northwest Orient Lockheed L-188 Electra, similar to the one involved. The seven-month-old Lockheed L-188C Electra operating as Northwest Orient Flight 710 (the airline's first Electra) was a regularly scheduled flight departing Minneapolis-St. Paul to Miami with a stop at Chicago Midway Airport. Radio contact with the Indianapolis Control ...
Flight 710 may refer to: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710, crashed on 17 March 1960; Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710, hijacked on 5 July 1972;
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 crashed near Cannelton, Indiana, on March 17, 1960, killing all 57 passengers and six crewmembers. [ 90 ] United Airlines tail number NC13304 was destroyed by a bomb on October 10, 1933, near Chesterton, Indiana , in what is thought to be the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial ...
D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24 1971. During the flight, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanding $200,000 in ...
For over half a century, the identity of the infamous skyjacker, who boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, parachuted into the night, and disappeared with $200,000, has ...
0–9. Northwest Airlines Flight 1; Northwest Airlines Flight 2; Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2; Northwest Airlines Flight 85; Northwest Airlines Flight 188
Boniface's participation in aircraft crash investigations in the 1940s [20] and in the accident investigations of the loss of one of the wings at cruise altitude on each of two Lockheed Electra turboprop powered aircraft (Flight 542 operated by Braniff Airlines in 1959 and Flight 710 operated by Northwest Orient Airlines in 1961) led to his ...
April 7, 1972: United Airlines Flight 855, from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles, California, carrying 85 passengers and a crew of six, was hijacked by Richard McCoy Jr. during a stopover in Denver, Colorado. This was a copycat hijacking, modelled on the D.B Cooper 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, less than 5 months ...