Aircraft Accident Report
Northwest Airlines Flight 255 Accident
Background[1] :
Flight : Northwest Airlines Flight 255
Flight No. : N312RC
Aircraft : McDonnell Douglas MD-80
(Twin Turbofan Engined Short – Medium Range Commercial Jet)
Date : 08:46 pm, Aug 16, 1987
Location : Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Romulus, Michigan
Crew : 6
Passengers : 149
Casualties: 6 + 148 + 2 = 156 (6 crew, 148 passengers, 2 on ground)
Survivors : 1 (Cecelia Cichan, 4 year old)
History of Flight[1] [2] :
Northwest Airlines Flight 255 started at Tri-City Airport in Saginaw, Michigan and was
scheduled for the destination of John Wayne Airport, Orange County, California. It had 2
intermediate stops – Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan and
Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. At about 8:46 pm, on 16 August, 1987,
Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnel Douglas MD-82 aircraft, crashed shortly after
take-off from the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. The incident killed all 6 crew
and 148 of the total 149 passengers. The crash also killed 2 people on the ground when they
were driving their car. 5 people on the ground were injured seriously. The sole survivor of
this crash - Cecelia Cichan, a 4 year old girl, sustained serious injuries from which she finally
recovered.
This crash is considered to be the second deadliest aviation accident at the time in the US.
Causes[1] [2] [3] :
Primary Causes[1] [2] [3] :
This newspaper by the New York Times was published a week after the crash, which gives me straight up information on what exactly happened at that time.
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