AirFloridaFlight91波托马克河空难.doc

Air Florida Flight 90 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Air Florida Flight 90 Salvage operations on January 19, 1982 Occurrence summary Date January 13, 1982 Type Icing and pilot error Site Washington, D.C. and Arlington County, Virginia Passengers 74 Crew 5 Injuries 10 Fatalities 78 (4 on ground) Survivors 5 Aircraft?type Boeing 737-222 Operator Air Florida Tail number N62AF Flight origin Washington National Airport Last?stopover Tampa International Airport[1] Destination Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport[1][2] U.S. National Transportation Safety Board diagram of flight path for Air Florida flight 90 which crashed on takeoff at Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982, killing 78 persons. Air Florida Flight 90, an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737-222 airliner, crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982 immediately after takeoff in a severe snowstorm from Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia. The aircraft carried 74 passengers and five crew members when it crashed during the failed takeoff attempt. All but five occupants died. The aircraft struck the 14th Street Bridge, which carries Interstate Highway 395 between Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. It crushed seven occupied vehicles on the bridge and destroyed 97?feet (30?m) of guard rail[3] before it plunged through the ice into the Potomac River. The crash occurred less than two miles (3 km) from the White House and within view of both the Jefferson Memorial and The Pentagon. The accident killed 78 people, including four motorists on the 14th Street Bridge. A few survivors were rescued from the icy river by civilians and professionals; President Ronald Reagan commended these acts during his State of the Union speech a few days later. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. The pilots failed to switch