Cleveland - Detroit

On March 4, 1987 at 02:34 PM, Cleveland - Detroit experienced a crash involving Casa 212 Aviocar, operated by Northwest Airlink, with the event recorded near Detroit-Metropolitan-Wayne County Michigan.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

19 people were known to be on board, 9 fatalities were recorded, 10 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 47.4%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 16, passenger fatalities: 7, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. At 14:30 the flight was cleared for a runway 21R visual approach and was cleared to land one minute later, At a height of 60-70 feet the aircraft suddenly yawed violently to the left and banked left 80-90° in a descent. The aircraft then rolled right and struck the ramp area 1,010 feet inside and to the left of the runway 21R threshold. It then skidded 398 feet, struck three ground support vehicles in front of Gate F10 at Concourse F and caught fire. Both pilots and seven passengers were killed, 10 other occupants were injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration N160FB, MSN 160, year of manufacture 1980.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 42.2057°, -83.3530°.