ROMULUS – Family, friends, and loved ones gathered Thursday night to remember those lost 25 years ago in the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash.
The Memorial vigil began at 8:46 p.m., the time the crash occurred, at the Memorial Site, located at Middlebelt Road and Interstate 94 in Romulus. Gatherers arrived around 7:30 p.m.
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A priest read names of the victims which appear on the stone monument at the crash site.
The plane took off from Detroit Metro Airport en route to Phoenix on Aug. 17, 1987, but moments later, it crashed into Middlebelt Road. All but one of the 155 people onboard plus two people on the ground were killed. Only a 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, survived.
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