Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost exactly 43 years later, he heard news of the American Airlines crash on the ...

(Original Caption) Washington, DC, Potomac River. Fuselage of plane from crash on Air Florida's flight 90. On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 727-200 series, departed from Reagan ...

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 ...

This week’s tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 5342, which went down in a midair collision with a military helicopter about 400 feet above the Potomac ... that time, Air Florida Flight ...

The aviation disaster near Washington DC has brought up memories of another crash into the Potomac River 43 years ago – the Air Florida Flight 90. The search at the crash site of the American ...

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 ...

On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida ... icy Potomac River. One television news crew from 7News, photojournalist Chester Panzer and sound operator George Patterson made it to the crash ...

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 ...

Air Florida filed for bankruptcy and grounded all planes two years after the Potomac River crash, according to a 1984 article in The New York Times.

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida ... on the Potomac River Good Samaritan rushes to help victims of Naples, Florida plane crash: 'Are they alive?' ...