Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didn’t lead to ...

FAA on Air Florida Flight 90 Usher and his rescue technician, the late Gene Windsor, faced challenging conditions as they navigated to the crash site on the Potomac River. A U.S. Park Police ...

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 ...

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.

Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a nearly in 25 years visited the crash site Sunday just outside ... The American Airlines flight, with 64 people on board was preparing ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...