Cecelia Cichan was 4-years-old and the sole survivor of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 25 which took the lives of 156 people including her parents and her 6-year-old brother. She was pulled from the wreckage of the Phoenix-bound McDonnell Douglas MD-80 after it its left wing clipped a light pole after takeoff from the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on August 16, 1987, and crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, killing 154 people on board and two people on the ground. She suffered a fractured skull, broken collarbone, broken leg, and multiple third-degree burns.
