Ceremony Remembers Those Lost In Lake Michigan Crash Of Flight 2501.

The 58 people who died when the plane they were flying in crashed into Lake Michigan 65 years ago will be remembered in a ceremony at a South Haven cemetery today.

Valerie VanHeest wrote a book about the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501.

The remains of the victims have been buried in an unmarked grave at a South Haven cemetery ever since.

 

Beginning today a boulder reading, “Northwest Flight 2501, June 24, 1950,” will mark their final resting place.