Snow fell all that day, and the countryside was colder than usual beneath overcast Maryland skies. It was Jan. 13, 1982, a bitter day of remorse over 78 farewells unsaid, 78 dreams unfulfilled, 78 … ...

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, ...

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 ...

Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington ... Jr., assisted in the rescue of the survivors, but drowned before he could be rescued. Four motorists on the bridge were ...

Only five people survived, and 78 were killed when an Air Florida Flight 90 stalled and crashed just moments after taking off from the Reagan National Airport, then known as Washington National ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (WDVM) — On Jan. 13, 40 years ago, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed in the 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the Potomac River shortly after take-off killing 78 people, according to ...

Reporter's Notebook: Forty-three years ago, the D.C. region was rocked by an air disaster that claimed 78 lives. On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street ...

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.