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Originally Posted by Sable99
...I was sitting in my car on the approach to the 14th Street Bridge in DC when the plane hit the bridge in the 80s. I will never forget seeing the helicopters taking the people out of the Potomac River and all of the rescue vehicles trying to get through the traffic. It's the only day I remember my boss letting us go home because of bad weather.
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That was January 1982, it was the beginning to the end of Air Florida. Since I lived in Pensacola and St. Petersburg in the 1970's I use to fly a lot on that airline. The plane that crashed was headed to Tampa, they had five survivors out of about eighty and four more died on the bridge.