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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Miami-based ringleader of international criminal enterprise gets caught stealing yet another luxury car ... On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, bound for Fort Lauderdale ...

Donald Usher, a former helicopter park police pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in the Potomac River, reflects on the emotional toll of that rescue as ...

Air Florida airplanes parked at a Miami International ... and uncontrollable pitch-up immediately after liftoff of Flight 90, from which recovery was not possible,” Silverberg said.

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 ...