Flight 255 - 25th Anniversary

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Tonight marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of Northwest Flight 255 in the Downriver community [[if you think it's one) of Romulus, southwest of Detroit. I am posting this a few minutes after the exact time it went down: 8:46 PM on August 16, 1987.

The plane just took off around this time 25 years ago. Suddenly, it hit a light pole, then tore the roof off a car rental facility, then went down on Middlebelt Road near an Amoco gas station at the intersection with Wick Road, crushing a railroad overpass before striking the overpass carrying the eastbound lanes of I-94.

Only one person survived this tragedy, a four-year-old named Cecelia Cichanand. Everyone else on the plane, along with two on the ground, perished.

So share your memories of one of metro Detroit-Windsor's worst tragedies, which happened exactly 25 years ago tonight.