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 ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 to this day is the only missing United States aircraft in aviation history. The mystery, although unsolved, and the search ceased, the work of the MSRA, Cussler, ...

A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water us ...

In 1950, Northwest Orient Flight 25-01 vanished over Lake Michigan during severe weather, resulting in the deaths of all 58 people on board. Despite extensive searches, the wreckage was never ...

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.