Highlighting yet another tourism angle for Michigan's West Cost, one Holland scuba diver, assisted by a well-known shipwreck hunter, leads the search for plane wreckage from Northwest Flight 2501 that crashed in teh Big Lake 57 years ago.
According to excerpts from the story:
The quest to locate the Lake Michigan site where an airliner carrying 58 people went down decades ago could help uncover the cause of the mysterious crash, even if the wreckage itself never is found, says the woman leading the search that again failed to find the plane this spring.
From late April through late May, the diver and her group, Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates, scoured a 23-square-mile area of the lake off South Haven but found no sign of the crash site of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501. They were helped by a three-member underwater-search team provided by author and shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler. The organization started the search in fall 2004.
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