Exclusive To AeroCrash [we are the first to upload this], Air Crash Investigation – Cockpit Chaos in 720p HDTV Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was a flight that originated at MBS International Airport in Saginaw, Michigan, and was scheduled to terminate at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, with intermediate stops at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit and at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The flight crashed after takeoff in Romulus on August 16, 1987, at about 20:46 EDT (8:46 pm local time, 00:46 UTC August 17), killing all of the crew and passengers except for a 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, who sustained serious injuries, according to a report by the FAA’s Office of Aviation Research. humza@infinitymedia.org.uk aerocrash.org.uk
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The? thing that’s awful about this crash is, I bet almost everyone died from fire instead of impact. I imagine it was a painful death for most.
@Flash8437 they probably ran out of money? lol.
There’s too many things wrong, with this story, Flt 255 took off from rwy 9R, took out light poles at side of runway, banked left, the left wing took out part of the roof of the Avis rent a car building on Middlebelt, then went straight into the railroad viaduct on Middlebelt. If the airplane would have left from 3C, it would? have crashed in a vacant field, or near the Hotels on Wick Rd, If not I 94.
@ImmortalSynn However? with this particular plane (in the crash) did need flaps.
@pettyofficer30
That’s not true. An A300B2, for example, can takeoff just fine with a full passenger/bags/fuel load, and no flaps. And then there was Concorde and TU144, neither? of which even *had* flaps.