“Once we found her, we had that little piece of joy that we found a survivor, because we didn’t think we’d find anybody.”Ĭecilia Cichan was the four-year-old girl who suffered serious injuries, but survived the crash. When I look back at it, I can picture how the scene was,” Thiede said. Hank Winchester talked with Captain John Thiede of the Romulus Fire Department, the firefighter who pulled that child from the wreckage that night. 16, 1987, killing 156 people - with just one person surviving, a four-year-old girl. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metro Airport back on Aug. ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.It’s been 35 years since the tragic crash of Northwest Flight 255. I have this mentality where if something bad happened to me once on a plane, it’s not going to happen again,” Crocker says in the film. ‘Why didn’t my brother survive? Why didn’t anybody? Why me?”‘Īs for returning to the air, Crocker “feels fine flying and does so quite often,” Dickens said. I remember feeling angry and survivor’s guilt. “When I realized I was the only person to survive that plane crash, I was maybe in middle school, high school, maybe, being an adolescent and confused,” said Crocker, who was interviewed by the film’s director, Ky Dickens, over 1.5 hours in Queens, N.Y., in September 2011. She was raised in Alabama by her aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media and others who sought to delve into her unique past.Ĭrocker said the enormity of what had happened didn’t really hit her for a while. Bag-covered bodies are strewn across the hillsides flanking Middlebelt Road in Romulus, Mich.
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