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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.
"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.
It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [49] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [50] It was the first crash in the Potomac River since Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982. [51]
A survivor of a deadly 1982 plane crash into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., says the Jan. 29 plane collision brought back memories of his unlikely survival more than 40 years ago. The ...
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
On the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, an American Airlines regional passenger aircraft collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over the Potomac River, the same site of another tragic plane ...
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.
O n Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, plus another 11 died when the wreckage fell over ...