BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

A year in pictures: 1982

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Searching for survivors

Rescue workers survey the crash site of Air Florida

Flight 90, which on 13 January 1982 hit the 14th

Street Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington

DC before plunging into the ic y water. The pilots of

the Boeing 737, scheduled to fly from Washington

to Florida, had failed to activate the engine anti-ice

system; ice built up on the wings and nose-cone,

and the plane stalled shortly after take-off. Of the

74 passengers and five crew, only four passengers

and one flight attendant survived.