Air Florida Flight 90 · 14th Street Bridges
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 (14th Street Bridges). 78 people died.
- Date
- January 13, 1982
- Place
- 14th Street Bridges
- Operator
- Air Florida
- Killed
- 78
- Injured
- 5
- Position
- 38.874°N, 77.043°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q2372837
From Wikipedia
Air Florida Flight 90 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, with an intermediate stopover at Tampa International Airport, that crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River just after takeoff from Washington National Airport on January 13, 1982. The Boeing 737-200 that executed the flight, registered as N62AF, struck the bridge, which carries Interstate 395 between Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia, hitting seven occupied vehicles and destroying 97 feet (30 m) of guard rail before plunging through the ice into the Potomac River.
The aircraft was carrying 74 passengers and five crew members. Only four passengers and one crew member (flight attendant Kelly Duncan) were rescued from the crash and survived. Another passenger, Arland D. Williams Jr., assisted in the rescue of the survivors, but drowned before he could be rescued. Four motorists on the bridge were killed.
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