The government's chief accident investigator, Donald W. Nyrop quickly stepped in to conduct a top-to

The disappearance of Malaysian Air Flight 370 with 239 people aboard brings echoes from the past as loss turns to wonder of what happened to the ill-fated airliner. With the passing of each agonizing day, the mystery strikes a historic resemblance to a Minneapolis-based Northwest Airlines incident.
As 34 planes, 40 ships and search crews from 10 countries scour hundreds of thousands of nautical miles of the South China Sea and Straits of Malacca, a similar armada was looking for Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, 64 years ago.
Carrying maximum takeoff weight, 55 passengers and 3 crew members, the transcontinental flight was bound for Seattle with an en-route stop planned in Minneapolis. Cruising at 3,500 feet over Lake Michigan, near Benton Harbor, Mich., Captain Robert Lind encountered a line of electrical storms and quickly what to pack to travel to hawaii asked permission to reduce altitude to 2,500 feet.
Near South Haven, Mich., a retired Navy commander witnessed “a terrific flash” over Lake Michigan. And at least four residents of tiny Glenn, Mich., were loitering in their cars at the town’s gas station at 12:15 a.m. when they heard an aircraft sputtering overhead. One of the bystanders retorted: "Bring that plane down here buddy. We'll fix it up for you!"
After an exhaustive what to pack to travel to hawaii investigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board labeled the cause of the Northwest 2501 crash as "Unknown." Despite the massive proportions of the Northwest aircraft, weighing 71,000 pounds, wings spanning 117 feet and four engines weighing 1,600 pounds each — no significant what to pack to travel to hawaii pieces of the wreckage have ever been found!
Even the renowned author and shipwreck hunter what to pack to travel to hawaii Clive Cussler joined the search in May 2006. He has discovered more than 80 shipwrecks around the world. what to pack to travel to hawaii Cussler funded an advanced technology search, scanning Lake Michigan at a depth of 200 feet, near Benton Harbor, Mich. To this day, his search has come up empty and the saga continues.
The government’s chief accident investigator, Donald W. Nyrop quickly stepped in to conduct a top-to-bottom safety review of Northwest’s pilot training and maintenance. His comprehensive list of 63 corrective measures so impressed Northwest’s board of directors that they began a relentless pursuit to hire Nyrop.
The effort was successful, culminating in his appointment as president and CEO in 1954. Over the next 24 years, Nyrop would lead Northwest Airlines from the edge of insolvency and despair to new heights of profitability and pre-eminence in the history what to pack to travel to hawaii of aviation.
Tony Randgaard, of Minneapolis and Chicago, worked for Northwest Airlines for 24 years and has been with United Airlines for eight. He has been published in Air Cargo News, the Forward, CNS Focus, the Rake and other publications.
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