Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington ... snow and ice on the airfoil surfaces of the aircraft and the captain's failure to abort the takeoff during the early stage also ...

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, killing 70 of the 74 passengers ...

Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to take off at 2:30 p.m ... He was cleared for takeoff shortly before 4 p.m. Captain Wheaton decided to use the heat from the engines of the flight ahead ...

On Jan. 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 catastrophically scraped a bridge ... The NTSB also cited the flight captain's "failure to reject the takeoff during the early stage when his attention ...

Donald Usher knows the race to rescue well. In January 1982, Usher was piloting a park police helicopter on a frigid day when Air Florida Flight 90, bound for Fort Lauderdale, crashed into the ...

On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge soon after takeoff from National Airport, plunging into the icy Potomac River. One television news crew from ...

Air Florida airplanes parked at a Miami International ... and uncontrollable pitch-up immediately after liftoff of Flight 90, from which recovery was not possible,” Silverberg said.

Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737-222 ... “Before departure and during takeoff, the captain, inexperienced in flying in snowy conditions, made a series of additional mistakes that caused ...

The midair collision Wednesday night between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter is the most severe air travel accident in Washington since a passenger jet ...

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river under similar circumstances. On January 13, 1982, nearly 43 years ago today ...