Date: August 16, 1987
Location: Romulus, Michigan
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Reg: N312RC
Airline: Northwest Airlines
Flight No: 255
Fatalities: 155 : 154

This Northwest Airlines MD-82 crashed shortly after takeoff because the crew failed to extend the flaps and slats.  One-hundred-fifty-four people aboard died.  One 4 year-old girl survived.