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The Captain, Larry M. Wheaton, aged 34, was hired by Air Florida in October 1978 as a first officer.He was promoted to captain in August 1980. At the time of the accident, he had about 8,300 total flight hours, with 2,322 hours of commercial jet experience, all logged at Air Florida.
After a D.C. plane collision Jan. 29, Joseph Stiley, survivor of an eerily similar 1982 plane crash in D.C., remembers how he fought to survive in the freezing Potomac.
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a 1984 made-for-television drama film about Air Florida Flight 90 that crashed into the Potomac River in 1982; the plane was carrying 74 passengers and five crew members. Four passengers and one crew member (a flight attendant) were rescued from the crash and survived. [1]
Arland Dean Williams Jr. (September 23, 1935 – January 13, 1982) was a passenger aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed on take-off in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1982, killing 74 people. One of six people to initially survive the crash, he helped the other five escape the sinking plane before he himself drowned. [1]
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The crash came just weeks after the 43rd anniversary of an Air Florida flight going down in the Potomac due to bad weather, killing 78 people on Jan. 13, 1982. With Post wires Show comments
"Potomac River plane crash" may refer to: Air Florida Flight 90 − 1982 aviation accident in which a Boeing 737 operated by Air Florida crashed into the Potomac River due to equipment failure. PSA Airlines Flight 5342 − 2025 mid-air collision between PSA Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.
In 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River, killing 70 passengers and four crew members. Only four passengers and one crew member survived.