The 1987 Northwest Airlines flight 255 plane crash. In Michigan, on Aug. 15, 1987, a Northwest Airlines passenger plane crashed in Romulus, Michigan, ...

An Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing at least 290 people, with one survivor. The tragedy draws parallels to the 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash, where Cecelia Cichan ...

FILE - 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.

FILE - 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 ...

FILE - 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.

In 1987, Cecelia Crocker, then known as Cecelia Cichan, survived the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash in Romulus, a suburb of Detroit. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ...

Sometimes, the sole survivors are children, like Cecelia Crocker — known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash — who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255 when it crashed in the ...

Cecelia Crocker – known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash – was aboard Northwest Airlines flight 255 when it crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus in the United States ...

In 1987, Cecelia Crocker, then known as Cecelia Cichan, survived the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash in Romulus, a suburb of Detroit. open image in gallery.

Cecelia Crocker — known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash — was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255 when it crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, killing 154 people on board ...