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Plane Plows Into Snow Bank At Metro Airport Passengers Deplaned, Brought To Terminal POSTED: 12:14 pm EST December 23, 2004 UPDATED: 12:40 pm EST December 23, 2004 Passengers were deplaned after a Northwest Airlines flight hit a snow bank at Detroit Metropolitan Airport Thursday morning. The flight hit the snow bank sometime after 11 a.m. NWA representative Thomas Becker said 124 passengers were on the plane at the time. "We had a flight from Detroit taxiing to the runway bound for Houston, when one of the engines struck a snow bank that was off to the side of a taxiway,"...

Ex-McNamara aide convicted of Detroit Metropolitan Airport corruption 9/27/2004, 10:45 p.m. ET The Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A federal jury on Monday convicted a top aide to former Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara of taking kickbacks from contractors at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The charges grew out of a two-year federal and state investigation of the McNamara administration. The jury found Wilbourne Kelley III, 68, and wife Barbara Kelley, 56, guilty of extortion, bribery, conspiracy and lying to the FBI. Barbara Kelley also was convicted of money-laundering. Wilbourne Kelley was a top county official through the 1990s and...