Just seconds after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into a frozen river in one of the most shocking air disasters in U.S. history. What caused this tragic crash? From icing errors to critical ...

Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington ... That's nearly 50 miles from the crash site. Near Washington, D.C., where the crash occurred, the river is usually 10–20 feet ...

No survivors were found in the wreckage overnight. 40 years ago, a Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and then fell into the Potomac River, killing 70 of the 74 passengers ...

Amid the chaos of a January snowstorm, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the icy Potomac moments after take-off. Panzer and his sound operator George Patterson were nearby and rushed to the scene.

The midair collision Wednesday night between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter is the most severe air travel accident in Washington since a passenger jet ...

dooming Air Flight Florida 90. The plane never climbed above 400 feet and crashed onto the 14th Street bridge killing four people in cars. All in all, 78 lives were lost and only five people were ...

the same site of another tragic plane crash almost exactly 43 years ago. On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 catastrophically scraped a bridge while departing what's now the Ronald Reagan ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in January 1982. They hung on to ...

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river under similar circumstances. On January 13, 1982, nearly 43 years ago today ...