Northwest Airlines Flight 255

When

16 Aug 1987

Kind

Event

Coordinates

42.24° N, 83.33° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Northwest Airlines Flight 255.

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.

1987 aviation accident in Michigan

On Sunday, August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport at about 20:46 EDT. All six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, as well as two people on the ground, were killed.

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