Crazy stuff. Yes, I'm familiar with that crash - they had a special about it on TV recently...
I have a mild obsession with plane crashes (I read everything about them I can find, I watch every TV special on plane crashes, etc.) which started when I was a child and my grandpa rescheduled himself from a flight that ended up crashing horribly in 1987 (LOT 5055) because he wanted to come to my piano recital and decided to go the next day instead.
My husband's childhood friend, along with his parents and sister, died in the 1987 crash at the Detroit Airport (NWA 255).
Some scary stuff...