On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge ... sound operator George Patterson made it to the crash scene during rescue attempts.

D.C., before Wednesday’s American Airlines accident in which 67 people are believed to have died. Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan ...

“And here comes the fire wagons and the helicopter,” Huff recalled. “It was Florida Flight 90.” Huff said he watched a woman get rescued by a helicopter and then, out of the corner of his ...

(The Washington Post/Getty Images) Wednesday’s incident occurred more than 40 years after the Air Florida crash in 1982, when a passenger plane weighed down by ice on its wings crashed into a ...

First responders from agencies across Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., were honored by local officials March ...