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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737, clipped the 14th Street Bridge before crashing into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff from National Airport. [9] Of the 74 passengers and 5 crew members on board, only four passengers and one flight attendant survived the crash.
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