WXYZ report on 25th anniversary of deadly Northwest Flight 255 crash

Watch the WXYZ report on the 25th anniversary of the deadly Northwest Flight 255 crash. The report happened on Aug. 16, 2012. n August 16, 1987, Northwest Flight 255 took off from Romulus headed for Arizona — it didn’t make it far. Investigators blame a number of pilot errors on the crash, but the most important takeaway is the lives lost: 156 people were killed that day, all but one person on board and two people who were in vehicles near I-94 and Middlebelt Road.