The search for Northwest Orient Flight 2501 has been called off after a 20-year search. The passenger plane carrying 58 people disappeared over Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950 and no victims were ...

In this photo provided by Valerie van Heest, a historical exhibit of the 1950 crash of a Northwest Orient plane in Lake Michigan is on display at the Heritage Museum in St. Joseph, Mich., Oct. 7 ...

Northwest Orient Flight 2501, a four-engine propeller-driven DC-4, left New York's LaGuardia Airport the evening of June 23 bound for Seattle with planned stops in Minneapolis and Spokane, Wash ...

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 ...

When Northwest Orient Flight 2501 crashed, it was the worst aviation disaster in U.S. history.

Northwest Orient Flight 2501, a four-engine propeller-driven DC-4, left New York’s LaGuardia Airport the evening of June 23 bound for Seattle with planned stops in Minneapolis and Spokane ...

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.

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 Flight 2501 took off from La Guardia Airport in New York the evening of June 23, 1950. The plane was scheduled to make two stops — Minneapolis and Spokane, Wash. — before ...