“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 ...

For D.C. residents, 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 ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over ...

Air Florida’s Flight 90 stayed airborne for just 90 seconds before crashing into the 14 th Street Bridge in Washington, DC. The collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a US Army UH ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wednesday, Jan. 29, plane crash into the Potomac River has drawn parallels to another tragic accident in Washington D.C. On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 struck a bridge connecting ...