“I said, ‘Something hit it; something hit that bridge’.” It was the plane. “And here comes the fire wagons and the helicopter,” Huff recalled. “It was Florida Flight 90.” Huff said ...

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 ...

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 scene on the 14th Street Bridge following the Air Florida flight that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC. (The Washington Post/Getty Images) Wednesday’s incident occurred more ...