* 1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground.

* 1990 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482.

* 1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

A man carrying a black attaché case approached the flight counter of Northwest Orient Airlines.

Category: Northwest Airlines accidents and incidents

United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, formerly Northwest Airlines, are major international operators from Narita Airport.

* 1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.

* 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper ( AKA D. B. Cooper ) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $ 200, 000 in ransom money.

* 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

** Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ), a defunct airline purchased by Northwest Airlines that ceased operating in 1986

The failure of these systems can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Birgenair Flight 301 ( investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube: the prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp ), Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, AeroPeru Flight 603 ( blocked static port ), and of one X-31.

KLM and Northwest Airlines fleet at Schiphol, 2004

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

* February 12 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades killing all 43 persons aboard.

* March 17 – Northwest Airlines Flight 710 crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 63 on board.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

* Northwest Spitsbergen National Park includes a mountain called Ben Nevis.

One customer of the KSR2, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility, purchased an enormous number of spare parts, and kept their machines running for years after the demise of KSR.

* The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest Name, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

* Title: Advances in Microfluidics, Editor: Dr. Ryan kelly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

Dr. Caleb B. R. Kennerly, surgeon and naturalist, collected a wolf specimen on Lopez Island which is in the National Museum of Natural History, probably collected during the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1857-1861.

While most of the current activity at the site is related to the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory.

* Pacific Northwest: based in Portland, Oregon the Pacific Northwest Region ( R6 ) covers two states ( Washington and Oregon ), twenty-one National Forests and one National Scenic Area.

" Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a major national laboratory in Richland

Offering a wide range of programs, the campus focuses heavily on biotechnology, computer science, and engineering, due to the nearby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Hanford site.

* Battelle Memorial Institute ( operates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science )

* Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ) website

Today the JGI's partner laboratories include Berkeley Lab, LLNL, LANL, as well as Oak Ridge ( ORNL ), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ), and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology ( formerly associated with the Stanford Human Genome Center ).

* Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

* Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, Spitsbergen at 80 degrees north, contains two of earth's most northerly hot springs.

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League.

They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

He found evidence that suggested that seagoing war canoes as large as Viking ships and lashed together two and two had brought Stone Age Northwest American Indians to Polynesia around 1100, and they mingled with Tiki's people.

Mbira has now become so well known due to the worldwide stage performance and recordings of Thomas Mapfumo whose music is based on and includes the mbira, and the work of Dumisani Maraire who brought marimba and karimba music to the US Pacific Northwest, Ephat Mujuru who was one of the pioneer teachers of mbira in the US, and the writings and recordings of Zimbabwean musicians made by Paul Berliner.

New Spain sent settler and soldier families from central Mexico who brought the metate and the tamale foodway with them to Northwest Louisiana.

This decisive US victory brought the Northwest Indian War to an end.

He founded Saint-Boniface Cathedral and the school which is now known as the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, and brought both the Grey Nuns and the Oblate Fathers to the Canadian Northwest.

The maritime fur trade brought the Pacific Northwest coast into a vast, new international trade network, centered on the north Pacific Ocean, global in scope, and based on capitalism but not, for the most part, on colonialism.

Since its inception in 2005, the Festival has brought a range of musical talent to Carrick-on-Shannon, the intention, to reinforce the image of the Northwest as a desirable place to live, work and visit.

Along with his family, Edwards brought a number of slaves, whom he did not free even though the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had made slavery illegal in the territory.

Heer also reported on the Miocene flora of Arctic regions ( fossil plant remains brought back from Northwest Greenland by K. J. V. Steenstrup ), on the plants of the Pleistocene lignites of Dürnten, and on the cereals of some of the lake-dwellings ( Die Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten, 1866 ).

In 2001, a man who preyed on heroin addicts and prostitutes pleaded guilty to the 1999 murder of three women whose bodies were found in Forest Park near Northwest Saltzman Road, though forensic analysis showed the murders took place elsewhere and the bodies were brought to Forest Park.

The system brought strong winds to the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada, and was linked to 46 fatalities in the northwest and Northern California resulting from heavy rains and mudslides.

A very minute change in the 1990s brought the Northwest Angle into the 218 area after being part of Bell Canada's Clearwater Bay exchange in Area code 807.

Two different forms of Sufism were brought back to Northwest China by two charismatic Hui sheikhs: Khafiya ( also spelt Khafiyya or Khufiyah ;, Hǔfūyē ), associated with the name of Ma Laichi ( 马来迟, 1681 – 1766 ), and a more radical Jahriyya ( also spelt Jahriya, Jahariyya, Jahariyah, etc.

General Nikolai Ruzsky, commander of the Russian Northwest Front, brought up significant reinforcement against the Ninth Army.

At the time the Northwest Territories were brought under the jurisdiction of the Government of Canada, 47 % of the non-Native population spoke French.

The Franco-Ténois also deal with substantial pressures to assimilate, brought on by the isolation of Northwest Territories communities and the existence of a plurality of languages and cultures there among which English takes precedence.

The association brought quality live entertainment at reasonable prices to the Northwest area of the US.

In 1954 he was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee as part of its investigation into Communist activities in Pacific Northwest after being named by three witnesses.

The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 was a traumatic event for all the Southbranch communities, and they had passed their prime by the 1890s when the railway brought in increasing numbers of new immigrant settlers.