ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

On This Day in Weird, June 23...

1950: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, carrying 58 passengers and crew, meets disaster in the so-called "Great Lakes Triangle," while en route from New York City to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The DC-4 aircraft's last radio transmission places it at an altitude of 3,500 feet over Battle Creek, Michigan, preparing to change course due to bad weather around Chicago. Later, scattered light debris and human body parts were found afloat in Lake Michigan, but searchers never find the airplane's wreckage.