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The northbound span was originally named the 14th Street Bridge when it opened in 1950, renamed the Rochambeau Bridge eight years later, and renamed the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge in 1985 for a passenger of Air Florida Flight 90, who died in 1982 saving others from the freezing water.
At 4:01 pm EST, it crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River, 0.75 nmi (0.9 mi; 1.4 km) from the end of the runway. The plane hit six cars and a truck on the bridge, and tore away 97 feet (30 m) of the bridge's rail and 41 feet (12 m) of the bridge's wall. [4]: 5 The aircraft then plunged into the freezing Potomac River.
14th Street Bridge may refer to: Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) in Louisville, Kentucky; 14th Street Bridges over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. See also
The first part of the extension, Newark Bay Bridge, opened between Bayonne and Newark Liberty International Airport in April 1956; [191] the connection between Bayonne and the 12th/14th Street viaducts was completed that September, providing direct highway connection between the Holland Tunnel and Newark Airport. [192]
The response to the incident was slowed due to the hazard conditions going on and emergency personnel were already responding to the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on the 14th Street Bridge thirty minutes earlier. [7] Full service along the Metro did not reopen until the evening of January 15 following the removal of the wreckage from the ...
Oct. 16—Demolition work that was expected to take place this weekend on the Fourth Street NW bridge over Interstate-90 has been pushed back a few weeks, while the Oakland Avenue bridge is ...
Officially known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Also known as 59th Street Bridge. Reversible 4 lanes on the upper deck, and 2 westbound/3 eastbound lanes on the lower deck. Roosevelt Island Bridge: 1955: 2,877.0 876.91: 2 lanes of roadway (1 in each direction) East channel only Triborough Bridge (Suspension Bridge) 1936: 2,790 850
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