Seventy-five years after Lake Michigan's worst aviation disaster, grave markers in South Haven and St. Joe stand as silent ...

Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan 75 years ago this week. It had been flying from New York to Minneapolis. With 58 people aboard - including six children - at the time it ...

Flight 2501 vanishes over Lake Michigan The flight plan called for cruising altitude of 6,000 feet to Minneapolis. Captain Robert Lind, aware of stormy weather in the Midwest, requested a cruising ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.