Phoenix City Hall. Also, a marker stone is located at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, MI, in memory of the 14 GM employees and seven family members who were killed in the crash. Most were traveling to the GM Desert Proving Ground in Mesa, Arizona. On August 16, 2007, the 20th anniversary of the crash, a memorial service was held at the site. For some people affected by the incident, this was their first return to the site since the crash. On August 16, 2012, the 25th anniversary of the crash, another memorial service was held at the crash site. Family and friends of the victims and others from across the Metro Detroit area (including local media) attended, and a local priest read each victim's name aloud. Another was held there on August 16, 2017, the 30th anniversary.<ref name = DetroitN2017 ></ref> Annual meet-ups had become a tradition.<ref name = DetroitN2017 /> In popular culture The crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was covered in 2010 in "Alarming Silence", a season-9 episode of the internationally syndicated Canadian TV documentary series Mayday. The sole survivor of the crash was a four-year old child who appeared in the 2013 documentary Sole Survivor. She did not speak publicly about the crash until 2013, when the documentary was released. Around the August NASCAR weekend at nearby Michigan International Speedway, Tom Higgins posted his recollections of Northwest 255. Higgins, then of The Charlotte Observer, and fellow NASCAR beat reporters Steve Waid and Gary McCredie (of Grand National Scene) arrived at a hotel near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport awaiting a Monday morning flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, after finishing coverage of the Champion Spark Plug 400 that afternoon, and were witnesses to the plane crash. In Busy Philipps' 2018 memoir This Will Only Hurt a Little, Philipps mentioned that her friend Megan Briggs died the summer going into 5th grade on this plane crash. Her friend was eight years old and died alongside her parents and older brother. See also Spanair Flight 5022 – Another MD-82 that failed to lift off due to improper take-off configuration List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents Notes References External links Northwest Flight 255 Memorial Website Pre-crash photos of N312RC on Airliners.net Accident description at Check-six.com Airliner accidents and incidents in Michigan Airliner accidents