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Subject: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:12 am
Anniversary of Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC
May we remember the heroes of this flight, and may it never happen again!
This event caused one of my local radio personality to want to go into news broadcasting due to seeing the heroes from this crash, when he was a teenager. It also made him not want to fly!
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:13 am
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:14 am
Flight Air Florida 90 (Plane Crash In The Potomac) - 3/4
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:15 am
Flight Air Florida 90 (Plane Crash In The Potomac) - 4/4
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:16 am
From another source. Gives more interesting info. Air Florida Flight "Palm" 90 Crash - pt1
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:17 am
Air Florida Flight "Palm" 90 Crash - pt2
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:18 am
Air Florida Flight "Palm" 90 Crash - pt3
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:19 am
Air Florida Flight "Palm" 90 Crash - pt4
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:41 am
Air Florida Flight 90 from Wiki >Click here to read<
The "sixth passenger", who had survived the crash and had repeatedly given up the rescue lines to other survivors before drowning, was later identified as 46-year-old bank examiner Arland D. Williams Jr. The repaired span of the 14th Street Bridge complex over the Potomac River at the crash site, which had been officially named the "Rochambeau Bridge", was renamed the "Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge" in his honor. The Citadel in South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1957, has several memorials to him. In 2003, the new Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School was dedicated in his hometown of Mattoon in Coles County, Illinois.
Civilians Roger Olian and Lenny Skutnik received the United States Coast Guard's Gold Lifesaving Medal. Arland D. Williams also received the award posthumously. Skutnik was introduced to the joint session of the U.S. Congress during President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union speech later that month. President Reagan also personally contacted and privately thanked Roger Olian.
The United States Coast Guard awarded a Silver Lifesaving Medal to two crewmen of the U.S. Park Police helicopter Eagle 1. The U.S. Park Service is part of the United States Department of the Interior. Pilot Donald W. Usher and paramedic Melvin E. Windsor also received the Department of the Interior's Valor Award from Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt in a special ceremony soon afterward. Usher is now Superintendent of the U.S. Park Police Training Academy in Brunswick, Georgia.
Roger Olian, Lennie Skutnik, Donald Usher, and Melvin Windsor each received the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal.
Kelly Duncan, the only surviving flight attendant, was recognized in the NTSB accident report for her "unselfish act" of giving the only lifevest she could find to another passenger.[3]
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:25 pm
Air Florida went bankrupt shortly after this
gs78 Detroit Tiger
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:30 pm
The winter of 1981-1982 was one of the worst in U.S history Snow and bitter cold affected much of the nation throughout the winter
Metro Airport recorded nearly 80 inches of snow that winter
Normal is 41.4 inches
During Super Bowl 16 week
Heavy Snow, Ice, High Winds and sub zero cold made it brutal the entire week
In addition; An April snowstorm canceled dozens of baseball games; including the Tigers entire opening series against Toronto
detroitwings82 Lakeland Flying Tiger
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:10 pm
Sad to hear taht and i never knew about the plane!!
or this whole thing
laprimamirala Detroit Tiger
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:01 pm
Now there's been a crash in the Hudson River!
detroitwings82 Lakeland Flying Tiger
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:20 pm
i think i seen that on yahoo news
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82 Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:24 pm
Yup we started another thread
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Subject: Re: Air Florida Flight 90 out of Wash., DC 1/13/82