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The plane only attains 352 feet altitude before it stalls. The plane hits the 14th Street Bridge and crashes into the Potomac River. Bert, Joe, Nikki, Priscilla, Kelly and Arland make it out of the plane and cling to a piece of wreckage in the freezing river. Roger Olian, who was on the bridge, plunges into the river to try to help.
The northbound span was originally named the 14th Street Bridge when it opened in 1950, renamed the Rochambeau Bridge eight years later, and renamed the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge in 1985 for a passenger of Air Florida Flight 90, who died in 1982 saving others from the freezing water.
At 4:01 pm EST, it crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River, 0.75 nmi (0.9 mi; 1.4 km) from the end of the runway. The plane hit six cars and a truck on the bridge, and tore away 97 feet (30 m) of the bridge's rail and 41 feet (12 m) of the bridge's wall. [4]: 5 The aircraft then plunged into the freezing Potomac River.
After the crash on the bridge, the plane then continued forward and plunged into the freezing Potomac River. Soon only the tail section which had broken off remained afloat. Only six of the airliner's 79 occupants (74 passengers and five crew members) survived the initial crash and were able to escape the sinking plane in the middle of the ice ...
14th Street Bridge may refer to: Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) in Louisville, Kentucky; 14th Street Bridges over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. See also
While controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was called the Pennsylvania Bridge. By 1882 the bridge would be used by trains 150 times a day, with communications between each side of the bridge being done by semaphore. [6] By the 1900s, the bridge was being used 300 times a day, which was putting more stress on the bridge than it could handle.
14th Street Northwest and Southwest (Washington, D.C.) Broad Street (Philadelphia) 14th Street Bridge (Potomac River) 14th Street (Hoboken) 14th Street Viaduct (Jersey City, New Jersey) Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) Transit. New York City Subway stations: 14th Street (IRT Second Avenue Line) (demolished) 14th Street (IRT Third Avenue ...
14th Street NW/SW is a street in Northwest and Southwest quadrants of Washington, D.C., located 1.25 miles (2.01 km) west of the U.S. Capitol. It runs from the 14th Street Bridge north to Eastern Avenue. Northbound U.S. Route 1 runs along 14th Street from the bridge to Constitution Avenue, where it turns east with US 50.