Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac ... 78 people who perished — ...

Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River. 78 passengers, cabin crew members and motorists died. Just five people survived, and only three are still alive to ...

For David Huff, who lives in Auburndale, it brought him back to Jan. 13, 1982, when he and his partner from work were crossing the 14th Street Bridge in ... “It was Florida Flight 90.” ...

A survivor of a deadly 1982 plane crash into ... when Air Florida Flight 90 left what is now Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) and struck the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., at ...

The scene on the 14th Street Bridge following the Air Florida flight ... Wednesday’s incident occurred more than 40 years after the Air Florida crash in 1982, when a passenger plane weighed ...

An American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday night after colliding with a military helicopter, drawing immediate parallels to the crash more than 40 years ago of Air ...

This week’s tragic crash ... 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, ...

For some, the collision evoked memories of the 1982 Air Florida disaster ... vehicles on the 14th Street Bridge. But more than 30 years before that air disaster, there was a crash at National ...