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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.
The plane only attains 352 feet altitude before it stalls. 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.
That plane, enroute from what was then Washington National Airport to south Florida, struck the 14th Street Bridge just a few miles from the White House, crushing multiple cars and killing four ...
On Jan 13, 1982, the plane crashed into the 14th Street Bridge, and then the river, shortly after takeoff, killing most of the 74 passengers, all but one of the crew and four bystanders.
The repaired 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River at the crash site, which had been officially named the "Rochambeau Bridge", was renamed the "Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge" in his honor by the city government of the District of Columbia in March 1985.
That plane, en route from what was then Washington National Airport to south Florida, struck the 14th Street Bridge just a few miles from the White House, crushing multiple cars and killing four ...
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.
As he walked through Founders Park with his dog, Archie, on Thursday morning, Hirsch said the crash brought back memories of the Air Florida plane that hit the 14th Street Bridge between D.C. and ...