Read full article: ‘Risking lives to save others’: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90 Donald Usher, a former helicopter pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air ...

For D.C. residents, the crash brought up immediate and painful memories of the catastrophic crash of Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River just ...

“And here comes the fire wagons and the helicopter,” Huff recalled. “It was Florida Flight 90.” Huff said he watched a woman get rescued by a helicopter and then, out of the corner of his ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over ...

At that time, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed on Jan. 13, 1982, immediately following take-off from what was then known Washington National Airport. Unfolding in icy, snowy conditions, the airliner’s ...

The Wednesday, Jan. 29, plane crash into the Potomac River has drawn parallels to another tragic accident in Washington D.C. On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 struck a bridge connecting ...