Author to help solve plane mystery
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ss...42563266680.xmlCraig Rich admits the story sounds like what you might read in a novel.
The Holland City Council member was washing his car one afternoon when his teenage daughter told him a man named Clive Cussler was on the phone.
The enigmatic best-selling author -- writer of such novels as "Sahara" and "Raising the Titanic" -- had heard about Rich's interest in finding the remains of a commercial airliner that plunged into Lake Michigan nearly 55 years ago.
Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, with three crew members and 55 passengers, disappeared into the lake near South Haven on June 23, 1950, and was never recovered.
Nobody knows where it is or what caused it to crash.
Cussler, who has helped find more than 70 shipwrecks, is interested in helping Rich's group of volunteer explorers find the airliner and unravel the mystery.
He is offering to bankroll the project by providing the assistance of Ralph Wilbanks, the same sonar expert who helped him discover the C.S.S. Hunley off the coast of South Carolina.
(read the rest at the link - it's a good one!)