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 ...

NEED TO KNOW. A 20-year search for a flight that disappeared over Lake Michigan in 1950 has been called off. Northwest Orient Flight 2501 was carrying 58 people and was the deadliest U.S. aviation ...

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.

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 ...

Oct. 23, 2009— -- One of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who were out of contact with air traffic controllers for more than an hour Wednesday while they overshot their destination denies ...

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.