The crash remains the worst aviation disaster of its time Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan 75 years ago this summer while traveling from New York to Minneapolis with ...

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.

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.

Seventy-five years ago, Northwest Flight 2501, a DC-4 carrying 58 souls, crashed in Lake Michigan, making it the worst aviation disaster in U.S. history at that time.