Sunday, September 12, 2004


Looking south at the Jefferson Memorial. Above the Memorial on the other side of the river is the Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Runway 01 points at the bridges on the other side of the Memorial where an Air Florida Boeing 737, Flight 90 to Fort Lauderdale, crashed in a blizzard back in 1982. The wings were iced up. The jet stalled on take off and smacked into the 14th Street bridge, the one in the middle, killing five commuters, and went into the river close to the far bank. Five people survived out of the sixty-nine on board. Commuter Lenny Skutnik dived into the icy cold Potomac to fish one woman out before the chopper arrived for the rest. She was screaming for somebody to find her baby. Her baby was the last body recovered.

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