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** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.
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