Read full article: ‘Risking lives to save others’: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90 Donald Usher, a former helicopter pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air ...

Donald Usher, a former helicopter park police pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in the Potomac River, reflects on the emotional toll of that rescue as ...

Joseph Stiley, 86, is one of five people who survived that disaster, when Air Florida Flight 90 left what is now Washington ... Siley was a licensed pilot at the time and knew to curl into a ...

The crash of Air Florida Flight 90, caused by insufficient de-icing amid ... Stiley, himself a pilot, said he knew the plane was in trouble when it failed to reach sufficient speed on the runway.

“And here comes the fire wagons and the helicopter,” Huff recalled. “It was Florida Flight 90.” Huff said he watched a woman get rescued by a helicopter and then, out of the corner of his ...

At that time, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed on Jan. 13, 1982, immediately following take-off from what was then known Washington National Airport. Unfolding in icy, snowy conditions, the airliner’s ...