Northwest Airlines Flight 255 - Romulus, MI - Doves of peace on Waymarking.com

This disaster memorial is for Northwest Airlines Flight 255 which crashed August 16, 1987 shortly after takeoff when pilots had failed to extend flaps for the required lift. Everyone on board perished with the exception of a four year old girl. Additionally two people on the ground died when the plane hit their vehicle on Middlebelt Road on the east side of the airport.

The black granite memorial has at its center a white dove with the blue outlining holding an olive branch and a ribbon with a red heart with the number 255 in it. There is a remembrance statement and additionally a prayer. Flanking this stone are two additional stones which list the names of those who perished in the disaster. The memorial sits in an elevated field where Middlebelt Road passes under the I-94 bridge, the site of the crash. The dedication reads:

We Remember...
Our 156 loved ones who perished
August 16, 1987 at 8:46 p.m. when
Northwest Airlines Flight 255
crashed seconds after take off from
Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Their Spirit Lives On...
In Our Hearts And Minds Forever

-The Flight 255 Family

"And He will raise them up on eagle's wings,
bear them on the breath of dawn,
Make them to shine like the sun,
and hold them in the palm of His hand."
-Michael Joncas
©1979 New Dawn Music

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: top of the hill at Middlebelt Road and just south of I-94 Romulus, MI USA 48174

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