The aircraft, the last Boeing 727 in service at Northwest, had just completed its last flight in revenue service. The airline began flying 727s in 1964, when they transformed the airline industry ...

However, after the infamous D.B. Cooper incident wherein he hijacked — then parachuted into history — from a Northwest Airlines 727 flight in November 1971, Boeing required that the plane ...

The 727 Cooper (or whoever he was) hijacked and then parachuted from was built by Boeing in Renton, Wash. in 1965. It changed hands a few times after leaving the Northwest Airlines fleet and then ...

On November 24, 1971, Dan Cooper, who would become known as DB Cooper due to a mistake by the media, skyjacked a Boeing 727 — Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 — headed from Portland to ...

The crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 took the lives ... A photograph of the actual plane — a stretch Boeing 727 — was precision-engraved into the granite of the bench by ...

Flying a domestic Iranian route, a 38-year-old Boeing 727-200 owned by Iran Aseman Airlines entered the history ... as D.B. Cooper hijacked a 727 in the northwest United States before parachuting ...

Northwest Airlines (NWA) purchased the Boeing 757-200 as a replacement for its 727-200 fleet and had a total of 45 of the aircraft when it merged with Delta. The -200 was the more popular variant ...

Boeing is among the most well-known aerospace companies in the world and has built a wide assortment of different aircraft over the past century. However, it's only produced one plane with exactly ...

Northwest Airlines announced Tuesday that it has retired the last of its Boeing 727 aircraft from scheduled service. Northwest began operating the three-engine 727s in 1964 and its 727 fleet ...

Northwest Airlines today announced that it retired the last aircraft of its Boeing 727 fleet from scheduled service when flight 560 arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from ...