Seventy-five years after Lake Michigan's worst aviation disaster, grave markers in South Haven and St. Joe stand as silent ...

Northwest Flight 2501 crashed into Lake Michigan 75 years ago this week. But clues uncovered in 20 years of searching lessen the mystery.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.

The search for Northwest Orient Flight 2501 has been called off after a 20-year search. The passenger plane carrying 58 ...

WXMI Grand Rapids, MI. The Disappearance of Flight 2501: Why the search is ending for the plane lost over Lake Michigan. Posted: June 28, 2025 | Last updated: June 28, 2025 ...

In 1950, Northwest Orient Flight 25-01 vanished over Lake Michigan during severe weather, resulting in the deaths of all 58 people on board. Despite extensive searches, the wreckage was never found.

Oct. 22, 2009— -- Two pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight Wednesday were apparently so distracted that they missed their airport and kept flying for 150 miles before landing the plane and ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.

The Disappearance of Flight 2501: Why the search is ending for the plane lost over Lake Michigan. WXMI. Sat, June 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM UTC.