scraped over the 14th Street Bridge upon take off and plummeted into the icy Potomac River, killing 78 passengers, crew members and impacted motorists. Only five of those aboard the aircraft ...

Authorities began pulling the wreckage of doomed American Airlines Flt. 5342 from the Potomac River on Monday — as most of the bodies of the 67 people who died in the tragedy were recovered.

When a rookie D.C. firefighter noticed one of the victims recovered from the Potomac River last week was a soldier, he decided to stand guard over the body for hours until he was relieved by a ...