HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jun. 24, 2025) – One of the biggest mysteries and histories beneath the inland sea that is Lake Michigan had an anniversary on Monday.
It has been 75 years since an airliner carrying 55 passengers and three crew members from New York to Minneapolis, foundered in stormy weather and crashed into the big lake. Countless searches have turned out only pieces of the fuel tank, cushions, luggage, an airline logbook, and some body parts of two women floating in the waters.
Craig Rich of the Holland-based Michigan Shipwreck Research Association has been part of a decades-long quest to find the remains of the doomed aircraft.
Fellow MSRA associate Valerie Van Heest wrote a book several years ago, “Fatal Crossing,” that chronicled the worst aviation accident in American history at the time. Efforts to find the remains of the ill-fated flight continue.
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