STONY POINT ‒ Fifty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Orient Airline Flight 6231 disappeared from JFK Airport’s radar somewhere over Harriman State Park. A report from JFK was sent to police. A ...

SEATTLE - A man who called himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest 50 years ago. On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper bought a one-way ticket from Portland ...

It's a Northwest mystery that has never been solved. A man who called himself "Dan Cooper" paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle at the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at the Portland airport on ...

A former federal agent believes D.B. Cooper was actually Richard McCoy Jr., and he died in a shootout with the FBI. When skyjacker D.B. Cooper leaped from a 727-airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom ...

The discovery of a parachute possibly linked to D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in the 1970s, has reignited the FBI's investigation. Cooper demanded ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — In a shaded section of an old cemetery in South Haven, a boulder with a black inscription signifies a mass grave where a number of body parts from those aboard Northwest Orient ...

GREEN VALLEY, ARIZ. - The former Northwest Airlines pilot whose plane was hijacked by the legendary D.B. Cooper has died. William "Scotty" Scott died Sunday at his home in Green Valley, Arizona. He ...

D.B. Cooper belongs in the pantheon of American desperados—a Jesse James or Billy the Kid for our times. On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 as it was en route to ...