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Investigators probe nation’s second worst air tragedy in Michigan
Federal agents sifted through wreckage after a Northwest Airlines MD-80 jet plowed into I-94 near Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing up to 156. Officials debated the death toll as investigators recovered the black box and examined engine reliability while another Northwest flight reported a false engine fire. Cecilia Cichan, four, survived among victims.
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Romulus
Mich
Northwest Airlines
Middlebelt Road
Detroit
Ann Arbor
Cecilia Cichan
Michigan Department of Transportation
Alan Pollock
National Transportation Safety Board
Pollock
Washington
Ntsb Laboratories
Ed Cowles
Pratt & Whitney
Fred Farrar
Federal Aviation Administration
Lauber
LaGuardia
Northwest Flight 105
Minneapolis-St. Paul
FAA
Detroit Metropolitan