Collision recalls 1982 Air Florida crash into the 14th Street Bridge
The devastating Air Florida Flight 90 crash on Jan. 13, 1982 and subsequent rescue efforts in the ice-covered Potomac River ...
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How the Last Major Plane Crash Over Washington Unfolded
Flight 90 did manage to slip the bonds of gravity, albeit for just 30 seconds—gaining a maximum altitude of just 352 feet and ...
American Airlines Plane Crash Follows Strikingly Similar Tragedy on Potomac 43 Years Ago. Only 5 Survived the 1982 Disaster
Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River. 78 passengers, cabin crew members and ...
43 Years Ago, a Plane Crash on the Potomac Left 78 People Dead
A Boeing 737 crashed into a bridge over the river on Jan. 13, 1982, just after taking off from Washington National Airport in ...
How five people survived after a plane crashed into the Potomac River 42 years ago
The aviation disaster near Washington DC has brought up memories of another crash into the Potomac River 43 years ago – the ...
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DC plane clash: How Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac in 1982
As the pilots tried to maneuver the plane around the 14th Street Bridge, they couldn’t clear it in time, and the plane crashed into the bridge with full force. The FAA report concluded that the ice ...
DC plane crash isn’t first along Potomac River. How 1982 collision reshaped US flight
I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert ...
43 years ago, another D.C. plane crash and dramatic rescue on the Potomac River
The crash and rescue on the icy river connecting Washington, DC and Virginia had similarities to this one. Five of the 79 ...
Reagan National Airport Had Fatal Plane Crash in 1982
Wednesday’s incident occurred more than 40 years after the Air Florida crash in 1982, when a passenger plane weighed down by ...
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Survivor of 1982 DC plane crash credits pilot school lesson with saving his life
A survivor of a deadly 1982 plane crash into the Potomac River in Washington ... and struck the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., at which point it crashed into the icy Potomac.
The final seconds — and grim aftermath — of D.C. plane crash that killed 67
In seconds, the wreckage of each aircraft plunged into the icy Potomac River, the victims with it. All perished.
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Air Florida Flight 90: What happened when plane crashed into DC's Potomac River in 1982?
Several federal and state investigations have been launched after an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter ...