The Nation - News from Sept. 9, 1987

Cecilia Cichan, the lone survivor of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255, was removed from the intensive care unit of the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., and her condition was upgraded from fair to good. Hospital spokesman Mike Harrison said Cecilia, 4, was placed in the burn rehabilitation unit. Doctors said skin grafts performed Friday were successful. Cecilia, whose parents and 6-year-old brother died Aug. 16 in the fiery crash shortly after the plane departed Detroit Metropolitan Airport, uses a wheelchair when she is not in bed, he said. The Tempe, Ariz., girl can’t walk yet because her leg was broken in the crash that killed 156 people.