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11-08-2009, 01:17 AM
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Re: Extremely Rare Crash Photos of Northwest Flight 255
Dumb little girl, ruining a perfectly good mass death. Now instead of everyone talking about "what a loss of all those people" they will be saying "what a miracle that little girl survived".
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11-20-2009, 03:11 AM
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I was about 6 when this happened, I remember it clearly. A family friend of ours was on I-94 when it happened (obviously not close enough to been engulfed in the fireball). After hearing about the little girl on our local news every day, I kept asking my mom about her and how she was, etc. I remember it being a major obsession at the time, I even like fantasized about going to visit her in the hospital to console her. I ended up drawing her a "Get Well" card for her, and on the front I drew a sailboat. My mom suggested I write a name on the boat: S.S. Miracle The girl survived, if I'm not mistaken, because her mother was very obese, and she had somehow managed to get protected by that very fact. Crazy shit. |
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11-23-2009, 11:27 PM
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For real? That's too bad. Sorry to hear. I remember it being major news around here and probably nationwide for sometime.
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11-23-2009, 11:56 PM
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regarding the lone survivor----Cecelia Cichan, her mother did not shield her that was a misstated rumor that took off. actually her mother, brother, father were found feet from her. there is no rational explanation how the girl survived, but it can be considered no less than miraculous in light of the carnage around her. she was located by a rescuer who heard her moan and saw her arm twitch. latest updates say she graduated with a bachelors in psychology, refuses media attention, and keeps in constant contact with the families and friends of those who perished via a memorial site. You can google her for yourself if you like, again the little girl is named-------Cecelia Cichan. I thought people might appreciate an update. I have a thing about airplane accidents. |
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07-17-2011, 01:51 AM
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The little girl was found clutched in the arms of her mother who was severely burned around her in the wreckage. I've seen the official Wayne County pictures that won't make it online and they couldn't come close to relaying what the scene was really like. My parents and I went to check out the crash site and I found a finger with a gold ring still attached, my father found a set of charred ribs and the smell of burnt bodies and jet fuel permeated the air for days. It was such a surreal scene. Back then, they weren't so anal about roping off a scene, so after the 2nd day, people were walking and searching the 1/2 mile of wreckage off the road and Interstate 94, many finding body parts and personal affects. I was young and it was the beginning of the fascination of gore and death when I saw this carnage first hand. I can still remember the sound the crash and explosion made and how it shook our home. I helped plant evergreen trees on the 1 year anniversary of the crash on one of the hills pictured.... one tree for each victim. I still drive by the site on a regular basis. The scary part, the plane crashed into the rental car building (in the later pics) and then plowed into a train trestle before being obliterated.... they never replaced that trestle.... it still sits there today only being painted with a fresh coat of paint every so often to cover the charring.
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07-17-2011, 02:25 AM
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================================ I've actually seen the developed pictures from the Wayne County Sheriff & Morgue/ME (who had to turn a local airplane hanger into a temporary morgue) showing the remains of the entire family and the others on that flight. I was married to a Romulus firefighter and often spoke with the TWO Firefighter's from Station #3, (located a quarter of a mile down from the crash site Middlebelt Road) who actually found and pulled Cecilia out of the wreckage. The media hailed only one FF as a "hero". One of the said FF's has been a personal friend for over 15 years now. Cecilia was actually burned and injured and some of her skin was "melted", for lack of a better term, into her mother's skin, whose torso was still intact clutching her. Her mother's lower limbs, however, were found a few feet away. *insert pun jokes here* The remaining family took Cecilia away from Michigan after she was released from the hospital so she could grow up without a media storm following her every move. She was one lucky girl in a sense, but lost her family at such a young age. She was at the burn unit at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI for a while, and while there, she received so many get well cards & packages that the post office had to hold delivery of them and set them aside. Most of them never got delivered to her due to her remaining family wanting to shelter her from all the media attention. The leftover stuffed animals, packages and trinkets were dispersed to local senior housing and nursing homes by local volunteers who painstakingly read each and every note and card. That was a tough few weeks. I helped plant the evergreen trees that still line a hill on the crash site. You can see them when driving on I-94. When digging for the tree ceremony on the 1 year anniversary, we were still finding airplane parts and remains. Many of the trees we planted died from the immense amounts of jet fuel that blanketed and soaked into the grassy areas around the site. I still pass the site a few times a week and can still remember the smell of burned bodies and jet fuel.... it's a smell you can never forget. The pictures of the actual victims and wreckage has haunted my memory for almost 20 years now. The person from the Wayne County lab has passed away, so I don't know what became of the pictures, but they were intense and so sad knowing how many families were affected.... |
