Photos: Diane Doughty Madsen in 2011 (left) and the plane crash memorial on the right. Photos: Joey McLeister/Star Tribune via Getty Images and Nick Halter/Axios
A blizzard hit Minneapolis 75 years ago tonight, causing a small Northwest Airlines plane to crash into a Southwest Minneapolis house.
Why it matters: The crash was the deadliest in Minnesota history to that point. It killed 10 passengers, three crew members and two children in the home, which was on the 1000 block of West Minnehaha Parkway.
Flashback: Nick interviewed Diane Doughty Madsen, who survived the crash, back in 2011, when a neighbor was working on a memorial for the deceased.
She was 15 at the time and watching the Minneapolis Lakers game with her parents on the first level of the home. The crash killed her sister Janet, 10, and brother Tommy, 8, who were sleeping upstairs.
There were no grief counseling resources in 1950, Madsen said, so she "had to deal with it myself, because I didn't have anybody to talk to."
