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 ...

Shortly after 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 left Detroit Metropolitan Airport bound for Phoenix Sky Harbor. As in India, the jet failed to achieve lift and slammed to ...

News of the sole survivor of an Air India plane crash that killed the other 241 people aboard has led to endless fascination online. But it's also stirred up painful feelings for a handful of ...

At least three other people have been "sole survivors" of plane crashes. George Lamson Jr., then a 17-year-old from Plymouth, Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985.

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.