This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river under similar ... which made it lose control. As the pilots tried to maneuver the ...
After a D.C. plane collision Jan. 29, Joseph Stiley, survivor of an eerily similar 1982 plane crash in D.C., remembers how he ...
According to the FAA report, “At 1559, Flight 90 was cleared to "taxi into position and hold" and to "be ready for an ...
While Panzer no longer dwells on the horror of that assignment, last week’s collision between a military helicopter and a ...
In the aftermath of the Jan. 29 air disaster over the Potomac River, the rescue and recovery efforts were stunningly fast — ...
Between the volume of air traffic and the variety of aircraft, the airspace in the Washington area remains among the most complicated and restricted in the country.
In the 1940s, with the U.S. facing a huge pilot shortage, more than 1,000 women were trained to fly military planes ...
Case in point: the eerily similar crash of Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 that took off ... Gaffney is a writer, retired journalist and a private pilot. Sign Up for the Columbus Conversation ...
WASHINGTON (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: Forty-three years ago, the D.C. region was rocked by an air disaster that claimed 78 lives. On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed ...
Joseph Stiley, 86, of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, was flying out of Washington National Airport with his assistant when he knew ...