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Originally Posted by John_W
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.
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Never heard of Air Florida. We would see all kinds of planes-- including Nevada National Guard fighter jets-- on the routes just over Rattlesnake Mt. coming in to the Reno International Airport. Never recall Air Florida though.
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Our front windows faced Rattlesnake Mountain so we would see the flights coming in-and-out of the airport. Kind of fun except sometimes when the fighter jets would break the sound barrier quite close. One of the pilots lived a few doors down from us. Quite a character. He was/is an attorney too and later became a planning officer (General) at the Pentagon for the Air Force.