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The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Theories range from the Edmund Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Moments later, the plane’s left wing reportedly caught fire and an engine detached, sending the wide-body freighter crashing to the ground and erupting into a fireball.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Shortly after, the freighter was freed and continued its route through the Detroit River.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 8 Nov. 2025
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Theories range from the Edmund Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Moments later, the plane’s left wing reportedly caught fire and an engine detached, sending the wide-body freighter crashing to the ground and erupting into a fireball.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Shortly after, the freighter was freed and continued its route through the Detroit River.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Freighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freighter. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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freighter
noun
freight·er
ˈfrāt-ər 
1
: a person who carries or ships freight
2
: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight
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