Latitude and longitude of Northwest Airlines Flight 255
- Nearby Garden City, Michigan, United States
Satellite map of Northwest Airlines Flight 255
Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on August 16, 1987, at about 8:46 p.m. EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), killing all six crew members and 148 of its 149 passengers. The sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, who sustained serious injuries. It was the second-deadliest aviation accident at the time in the United States and the second-deadliest involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series; as of 2013, the crash is the fourth-deadliest in both categories and the deadliest sole-survivor incident in aviation history.
Latitude: 42° 14' 24.00" N
Longitude: -83° 19' 39.72" W
Nearest city to this article: Taylor, Michigan
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