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The plane hits the 14th Street Bridge and crashes into the Potomac River. Bert, Joe, Nikki, Priscilla, Kelly and Arland make it out of the plane and cling to a piece of wreckage in the freezing river. Roger Olian, who was on the bridge, plunges into the river to try to help. Meanwhile, friends and relatives learn about the crash.
"Potomac River plane crash" may refer to: Air Florida Flight 90 − 1982 aviation accident in which a Boeing 737 operated by Air Florida crashed into the Potomac River due to equipment failure. PSA Airlines Flight 5342 − 2025 mid-air collision between PSA Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.
The PBS series Nova featured the crash in season 2, episode 2, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Brush With Death". [29] The National Geographic Channel series Seconds From Disaster also dramatized the accident entitled "Plane Crash in the Potomac". Aircrash Confidential also covered the accident in one of their episodes.
After a D.C. plane collision Jan. 29, Joseph Stiley, survivor of an eerily similar 1982 plane crash in D.C., remembers how he fought to survive in the freezing Potomac.
WATCH: Crews begin removing wreckage from Potomac River after deadly DC plane crash. 17:24, Graig Graziosi. First major pieces of wreckage have been pulled from Potomac River crash site.
The wreckage from the two aircraft, which crashed January 29 over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, has been taken to a secure airport facility for further ...
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.
Related: Survivor of D.C. Crash Relives Escape from Death Despite 60 Broken Bones After Plane Plunged into Potomac in 1982 (Exclusive) Andrey says his late wife “was a very beautiful woman.”