The crash of Air Florida Flight 90, caused by insufficient de-icing amid ... memorializes the crash with the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge – the span of the 14th Street Bridge repaired ...

“And here comes the fire wagons and the helicopter,” Huff recalled. “It was Florida Flight 90.” Huff said he watched a woman get rescued by a helicopter and then, out of the corner of his ...

Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington National Airport ... The 14th Street Bridge, were the plane went down, is just 4.1 miles by vehicle via the George Washington Memorial ...

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river ... Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, named in honor of one of the five survivors ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in January 1982. They hung on to ...

Read full article: ‘Risking lives to save others’: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90 Donald Usher, a former helicopter pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air ...

Joseph Stiley, 86, is one of five people who survived that disaster, when Air Florida Flight 90 left what is now Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) and struck the 14th Street Bridge in ...

On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge soon after takeoff from National Airport, plunging into the icy Potomac River. One television news crew from ...