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 ...

The deadly crash in the Potomac after an American Eagle jet collided with a military helicopter has stirred memories of a long-ago tragedy in Washington, D.C. An Air Florida flight taking off en route ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

While some survived, 78 people died in the deadly 1982 crash. Tulsi Gabbard receives a round of applause upon the conclusion of her hearing 6 SUVs That Last Longer Than You Think and Are Worth the ...

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.

On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 struck the 14th Street Bridge and went into the Potomac River, killing 74 of ... The last commercial plane crash in the United States was on Jan. 6, 2013 ...

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?' ...