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On December 3, 1990, two Northwest Airlines jetliners collided at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport.
On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
Comair Flight 3272 was a Comair flight from Cincinnati to Detroit on Thursday, January 9, 1997. While on approach for landing, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft crashed nose-down 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport at 15:54 EST, killing all 29 people on board.
May 11—TRAVERSE CITY — Mechanical failure may have been the cause of a plane crash Tuesday evening at the Civic Center, when a Northwestern Michigan College flight instructor and a student ...
Travelers crowd the check-in area of the Evans Terminal at Detroit Metro airport on Friday morning, July 19, 2024. A Microsoft computer update affected several airlines including delaying flights ...
A TSA agent's conduct is under investigation after a video of his handling of a bomb dog at the Detroit Metro Airport circulated on social media.
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
Delta had more than 400 cancellations, not specific to Detroit, by 9 a.m. Tuesday and in the time since the outage had canceled more flights than it canceled for half of 2023, USA Today reported.