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  Cecelia Cichan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was commonly believed that she wrapped herself around the seat that her daughter occupied, protecting Cecelia from the post-crash fire.
Paula Cichan died in the crash, along with Cecelia's father, Michael Cichan, and her 6-year-old brother, David Cichan.
Cecelia Cichan was sent to live with relatives in Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of the crash, who took precautions to ensure that she was not constantly hounded by the media.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cecilia_Cichan   (190 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Miracle Girl -- Aug. 31, 1987   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rescuers who plucked her from the gnarled debris first assumed that Cecilia Cichan, 4, of Tempe, Ariz., had been a passenger in a car hit by the falling plane.
Rescuers believe that Cecilia's mother Paula, 33, a registered nurse, may have saved her daughter's life by wrapping herself around the seat to protect her child from the flames.
Cecilia suffered a concussion, a broken leg and collarbone, and third-degree burns on her arms and hands, but is expected to recover.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,965340,00.html   (185 words)

  
 Q&A | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To picture the relative sizes of the sun and Earth, suppose Earth were the size of a man; the sun would be roughly the size of a 60-story building.
A: An Internet source that couldn't be verified said Cecelia (or Cecilia, as in some news reports) is a student at the University of Alabama.
In all, 156 people were killed, including her parents, Paula and Michael Cichan, and her 6-year-old brother, David.
www.ajc.com /search/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/metro_34e15949d4cd40be0050.html   (567 words)

  
 Flight 255 Memorial Guestbook
I was wondering how Cecelia Cichan is copeing with this event that has got to be hard, since she can't remember the crash.
Also, please continue to remember Cecilia Cichan, the only surviver on the plane and Lawrence Favio, the gentleman who was injured on the ground.
Cecelia Cichan is a living miracle and I wish her the best at what she's apiring in life.
flight255memorial.com /guestbook.html   (6784 words)

  
 Traverse City Record-Eagle
Of course, we would have liked to keep a camera on her then, but thankfully, the adults around her didn't let that happen.
Neither did the family of Cecilia Cichan, the 4-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of that terrible Northwest Airlines plane crash in Detroit nearly 16 years ago.
The public latched on to the image of this tough little survivor, speculation that she lived only because her mother may have shielded her to the very end adding to the lure of the story.
www.record-eagle.com /2003/mar/20gibbon.htm   (447 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: 'What if ?'
Two motorists were killed, and fires raged in and around the wreckage.
Rescuers found 4-year-old Cecilia Cichan, badly burned, alive in her dead mother's arms.
With 154 fatalities on board, it was then the second-worst air disaster in U.S. history, trailing the 1979 American Airlines crash at O'Hare International in Chicago, where 275 died.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2001/aug/16/512225197.html   (1644 words)

  
 Airliners.net forum: NW Crash In The 80s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the plane was built it, was labeled an DC-9 Super 80 by the manufacturer...later to be called MD-80.
The little girl's name was Cecilia Cichan (pronounced "shee-un").
Last I heard, she was living in the south with members of her extended family, who adopted her after she recovered from the crash.
www.airliners.net /discussions/general_aviation/print.main?id=1662209   (2403 words)

  
 Vanderbilt Television News Archive: Detroit / Flight 255 Aftermath (ABC)
Wind shear recalled blamed for Pan Am crash in New Orleans and Delta tragedy in Dallas.
(Detroit, Michigan: Chris Bury) Death toll so far noted; condition of sole survivor Cecilia Cichan reported Photos, scenes shown.
This information describes a segment of a news broadcast held by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu /1987-8/1987-08-18-ABC-8.html   (306 words)

  
 Checkered Past: The rest
Newscasters reported the ill-fated plane to be Flight 255, bound from Detroit to Phoenix.
It was reported a 3-year-old child, Cecilia Cichan, had survived the crash that killed her parents and brother.
The TV newsmen speculated widely about the cause of the tragedy (months later investigators blamed it on the flight crew failing to deploy the plane's flaps for takeoff).
blogs.thatsracin.com /checkeredpast/the_rest/index.html   (6731 words)

  
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Maybe Emily and Elizabeth were dazed and wandering around somewhere.
The newscaster said that the young survivor was Cecilia Cichan.
I had hoped against all reason that the little girl would be Elizabeth.
www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=16298   (3906 words)

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