The Nation - News from Aug. 26, 1987

Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan, the only survivor aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255, has been told that her parents and 6-year-old brother died in the Aug. 16 crash, hospital officials said. The child from Tempe, Ariz., was gaining strength although she remained in serious condition at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokesman John Turck said. “We are releasing that she has been told about the family but as far as who told her, what was said to her or her reaction, that will not be released,” he said.