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Cockpit crew. The Captain, Larry M. Wheaton, aged 34, was hired by Air Florida in October 1978 as a first officer. He was promoted to captain in August 1980. At the time of the accident, he had about 8,300 total flight hours, with 2,322 hours of commercial jet experience, all logged at Air Florida.
4 sie 2022 · Air Florida Flight 90 went down on Jan. 13, 1982. The Washington Post chronicled the doomed airliner's brief journey on the 40th anniversary of the crash. After taking off during a snowstorm...
13 sty 2022 · News & Politics. 40 Years Ago Today, a Passenger Jet Crashed Into the 14th Street Bridge. Here’s the Inside Story of What Happened. Seventy eight people died when Air Florida Flight 90 plummeted into the frigid Potomac River. Written by Washingtonian Staff and Larry Van Dyne | Published on January 13, 2022. Tweet Share.
12 sty 2024 · Air Florida Flight 90 was briefly airborne before it struck the 14th Street Bridge on its way down, smashing cars and killing four people on the bridge before plunging headfirst into the...
13 sty 2022 · By Ian Duncan. January 13, 2022 at 11:56 a.m. EST. As Washington was in the grip of a snowstorm 40 years ago, an Air Florida jet struggling to get out of Washington National Airport slammed into...
Background. N106US, the aircraft involved in the accident. On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 [a] with call sign "Cactus 1549" was scheduled to fly from New York City's LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in Charlotte, North Carolina, with direct onward service to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
