Arland Williams' fiancee said he didn't know how to swim and was terrified of the water but he kept a cool head and helped ...

The deadly crash in the Potomac after an American Eagle jet collided with a military helicopter has stirred memories of a long-ago tragedy in Washington, D.C. An Air Florida flight taking off en route ...

On Jan. 13, 1982, snow was falling across the D.C region, and the increasingly hazardous travel conditions prompted the federal government to release workers early that afternoon.

On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge soon after takeoff from National Airport, plunging into the icy Potomac River. One television news crew from ...

Air Florida Flight 90 was scheduled to depart from ... two sections of cabin in front and behind the wings and the tail portion of the aircraft. Although impact speeds were low and well within ...

Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in January 1982. They hung on to the jet's damaged tail section in the ...