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Tirado, seriously injured and blinded by jet fuel, was too weak to grab the line when the helicopter returned to her. A watching bystander, Congressional Budget Office assistant Lenny Skutnik, stripped off his coat and boots, and in short sleeves, dove into the icy water and swam out to successfully pull her to shore. [12]
The film introduces the people whose lives will, on January 13, 1982, intersect on Air Florida Flight 90 from Washington, D.C. to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Marilyn Nichols, a stewardess, has just learned she is pregnant. Priscilla Tirado and her husband Jose are leaving for Florida to take up a new job.
Almost 43 years ago to the day, tragedy struck when a commercial jet − Air Florida Flight 90 − plunged into icy waters shortly after an afternoon takeoff from the same airport where a ...
Martin Leonard Skutnik III (born 1953 in Mississippi, known as Lenny) [1] [2] is a retired employee of the United States Congressional Budget Office [3] who, on January 13, 1982, saved the life of Priscilla Tirado following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the frozen Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
The flight attendants are, from left, Vicky Smith, Nancy Lancaster, Pat Rice, Connie Harper and Donna Wolson. Air Florida’s ticket counter in Miami. Air Florida executives, left to right, Bob ...
The National Transportation Safety Board released photos of the charred black box from the air ambulance crash that occurred Jan. 31 in Philadelphia.
It was the first major commercial passenger flight accident in the U.S. in nearly 16 years, following Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [ 50 ] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [ 51 ]
The military next week plans to begin draining fuel from World War II-era underground fuel tanks in Hawaii, nearly two years after the massive facility sickened 6,000 people when it leaked jet ...