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Air Florida Flight 90 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, with an intermediate stopover at Tampa International Airport.
Arland Dean Williams Jr. (September 23, 1935 – January 13, 1982) was a passenger aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed on take-off in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1982, killing 74 people. One of six people to initially survive the crash, he helped the other five escape the sinking plane before he himself drowned.
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
Almost 43 years ago to the day, tragedy struck when a commercial jet − Air Florida Flight 90 − plunged into icy waters shortly after an afternoon takeoff from the same airport where a ...
On Jan. 13. 1982, 74 people were killed when Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge connecting Arlington, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and fell into the frozen Potomac River.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed upon landing in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on August 2, 1985, due to a powerful weather event known as a microburst. [173] Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashed after takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on August 31, 1988. The NTSB determined that the flight crew had failed to deploy the plane's ...
Crewmen of a landing barge, with the bow lowered, fish a woman's boot from the Potomac River after the crash of Air Florida's Flight 90 in Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 1982.
Martin Leonard Skutnik III (born 1953 in Mississippi, known as Lenny) [1] [2] is a retired employee of the United States Congressional Budget Office [3] who, on January 13, 1982, saved the life of Priscilla Tirado following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the frozen Potomac River, Washington, D.C.