“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 ...

2025 Two WUSA9 photojournalists who witnessed the rescue efforts talked about their experience covering the deadly 1982 plane crash. Top Democrat Schumer backs Republican spending bill to avert ...

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 ...

The scene on the 14th Street Bridge following the Air Florida flight that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC. (The Washington Post/Getty Images) Wednesday’s incident occurred more ...

A Southwest Airlines flight nearly took off from a Florida taxiway on Thursday before an air traffic controller stopped the potentially dangerous departure, officials said. The incident involving ...