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 the ...

On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge ... sound operator George Patterson made it to the crash scene during rescue attempts.

the crash brought up immediate and painful memories of the catastrophic crash of Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River just moments after takeoff ...

D.C., before Wednesday’s American Airlines accident in which 67 people are believed to have died. Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan ...

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 ...

First responders from agencies across Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., were honored by local officials March ...