AP Photo Flowers and pictures are shown at the memorial Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Romulus, Mich. to mark the 25th anniversary of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 near Detroit ...

The crash happened on Aug. 16, 1987, killing 156 people. It remains one of the worst plane crashes in U.S. history. We’ve dug through the WDIV archives to find some of our new coverage from that ...

Flowers and pictures are shown at the memorial Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Romulus, Mich. to mark the 25th anniversary of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Every commercial jet crash is horrifying, but the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 moments after takeoff from Detroit seemed particularly so. Even the story of the sole survivor, the one ...

The only person who survived the 1987 crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 near Detroit Metropolitan Airport that killed 154 others aboard is sharing her story. Skip to Article Set weather ...

ROMULUS, Mich. — It's been 36 years since Northwest Flight 255 crashed after taking off from Detroit Metro Airport, killing 156 people. On August 16, 1987, the flight heading to Phoenix crashed ...

The flaming, overturned turbo-prop plane slid to a stop in a Northwest Airlines boarding area that had been occupied by a passenger-filled DC-10 just minutes before, airport officials said. ”We ...

When Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, Cecelia Cichan was the only one to survive. Her family was among the 154 passengers killed. Originally reported by Kay ...

Medic at 1987 Detroit Plane Crash Pens Song about Tragedy. Feb. 4, 2020. ... Graves was a Huron Valley Ambulance paramedic on duty during the Northwest flight 255 crash in 1987.

Tuesday marks 35 years since the deadliest plane crash in Michigan history. On August 16, 1987, Northwest Flight 255 took off from Romulus headed for Arizona — it didn’t make it far.

Several other people have been the lone survivors of plane crashes, including Cecelia Cichan, a 4-year-old girl who lived through a plane crash in Detroit in 1987.