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Siwsan

(26,260 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:00 PM Aug 2012

Cecelia Cichan, sole survivor of 1987 Michigan plane crash that killed 156, speaks out

I remember when this happened. I'm not a believer in miracles, but this sure comes close:


A four-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash which killed everyone else on board has spoken for the first time, 25 years after the disaster.

Cecelia Cichan, 29, became known as the 'miracle child' after she was dug out of the burning wreckage by a rescuer who heard her whimper.

Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashed shortly after take-off at an airport in Romulus, Michigan en route to Phoenix, Arizona on August 16, 1987. Some 156 people died, including two on the ground, in what remains one of the deadliest air disasters in U.S. history.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188168/Sole-survivor-Michigan-plane-crash-1987-Cecelia-Cichan-speaks-time-25-years.html#ixzz23Z2DOnue

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Cecelia Cichan, sole survivor of 1987 Michigan plane crash that killed 156, speaks out (Original Post) Siwsan Aug 2012 OP
Some of the safety checks were skipped..... CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2012 #1

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,611 posts)
1. Some of the safety checks were skipped.....
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:07 PM
Aug 2012

And many people died as a result.

Horrible.

Blessings on that young woman.

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