Michigan’s South Beach was closed for nine days as body parts and plane debris washed ashore, but no victims were ever positively identified A 20-year search for a flight that disappeared over Lake ...

“Perhaps it didn’t want to be found.” Those haunting words from maritime historian and diver Valerie van Heest hung over the 75th anniversary of the loss of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, which ...

DETROIT — Researchers have ended a 20-year quest to find the wreckage of a 1950 airliner that disappeared over Lake Michigan in what was then the worst aviation disaster in U.S. history. While the ...

Northwest Orient Flight 2501 was carrying 58 people and was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster to date at the time While researchers did not find the plane, they believe they have uncovered new ...