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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 ...
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Pages in category "Airliner accidents and incidents caused by fuel exhaustion" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
That's 90 million person-hours. The affected audience was predominantly young males, meaning that Florida Flight 90 defined pop culture for an entire generation of males who were young between 1982 and 1988 (when Howard Stern returned to the DC airwaves via syndication to WJFK) -- DC-area males born between, say, 1956 and 1974.