Joan Pontante, left, and Gloria Best place on hearts photographs of family members who died in the Northwest Airlines flight 255 crash in 1987. The Northwest Airlines flight crashed in Romulus ...

On June 12, an Air India passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff, leaving behind 1 survivor. In 1987, a crash in Michigan left 1 girl alive ...

Instances of lone survivors in plane crashes, while rare, have occurred in the past. In 1987, Cecelia Crocker, then known as Cecelia Cichan, survived the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash in ...

An Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing at least 290 people, with one survivor. The tragedy draws parallels to the 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash, where Cecelia Cichan ...

Air India Boeing 787 flight to London was canceled just days after the crash on June 12 that took the lives of over 290 people. Air India said the cancellation was due to "unavailability of the ...

In 1987, Cecelia Crocker, then known as Cecelia Cichan, survived the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash in Romulus, a suburb of Detroit.

Cecelia Crocker — known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash — was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255 when it crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, killing 154 people on board ...

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

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