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

No survivors were found in the wreckage overnight. 40 years ago, a Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and then fell into the Potomac River, killing 70 of the 74 passengers ...

National Airport was closed, but reopened at noon. Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to take off at 2:30 p.m. The plane was late and was de-iced shortly after 3 p.m. Moderate to heavy snow was ...

Donald Usher knows the race to rescue well. In January 1982, Usher was piloting a park police helicopter on a frigid day when Air Florida Flight 90, bound for Fort Lauderdale, crashed into the ...

Air Florida airplanes parked at a Miami International ... and uncontrollable pitch-up immediately after liftoff of Flight 90, from which recovery was not possible,” Silverberg said.

The 78 fatalities included passengers, cabin crew members and motorists impacted when Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the river Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture ...

Significant safety changes were made following a 1982 plane crash in Washington D.C. DC Fire and EMS Department The Wednesday, Jan. 29, plane crash into the Potomac River has drawn parallels to ...

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 ...

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river ... The crash crushed multiple vehicles on the bridge, resulting in the deaths ...