11/15/2023 0 Comments Plane crash at detroit city airportDetroit City Airport (later renamed the Coleman A. Henry and Edsel Ford opened the Ford Airport in Dearborn in 1924, touted as one of the world’s first modern airports. More - Reporter notebook: It’s hard to believe it’s been 35 years since Flight 255 crashed on I-94Ĭopyright 2022 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.Photograph courtesy of the Detroit Historical Societyġ970 Detroit was flying high in the 1920s, both economically and socially, but also on a more literal level. Watch his full interview with Thiede in the video player above. “It was tough, because, a lot of those (firefighters) guys went home with nothing, and we found a person,” Thiede said of being a young firefighter at the scene. The family she was traveling with did not survive. “Once we found her, we had that little piece of joy that we found a survivor, because we didn’t think we’d find anybody.”Ĭecilia Cichan was the four-year-old girl who suffered serious injuries, but survived the crash. When I look back at it, I can picture how the scene was,” Thiede said. Hank Winchester talked with Captain John Thiede of the Romulus Fire Department, the firefighter who pulled that child from the wreckage that night. 16, 1987, killing 156 people - with just one person surviving, a four-year-old girl. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metro Airport back on Aug. It’s been 35 years since the tragic crash of Northwest Flight 255.
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