207: The Crash of Air Florida Flight 90. National Mall and Memorial Parks.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On January 13, 1982 the world watched for the first time, an airplane rescue that was broadcasted live on national television. The US Park Police responded to a plane that crashed into the Potomac river, leaving survivors struggling in the icy cold waters.

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Resources:
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-cold-laws-of-winter-the-crash-of-air-florida-flight-90-cdcba7847e0a
Book: Air Crash Ivestigations: Death in the Potomac The Crash of Air Florida Flight 90. By George Cramoisi, Editor
Nat Geo Documentary: Seconds From Disaster: Flight 90.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZ08nFhsLY
https://www.communitybankingconnections.org/articles/2022/i2/forty-years-later
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/01/13/decade-later-pain-lingers-for-air-florida-survivors/11c2e520-c607-4dcb-9a32-fe261f26c218/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1984/04/01/nikki-felchtonights-flight-90-depicts-the-snowy-day-she-nearly-died-in-the-river/a5a387df-470d-408f-9c0e-2c373a34de8c/
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/jan/12/features.magazine27

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0:00.0	On December 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers made history with the first powered flight.
0:07.0	For 121 years, people have been mastering the art of aviation.
0:12.0	With thousands of new innovations and aircraft models created
0:15.6	sense.
0:16.6	However, when you consider that people have lived on Earth for approximately 300,000 years and only for the past 121 we have been airborne, it suddenly feels
0:28.6	dangerously new. Still, traveling by airplane has been deemed the safest mode of transportation
0:34.8	safer than cars, trains, buses, or boats, but even the safest form of
0:40.5	transportation has its risks and when a plane crashes it hits the
0:44.7	news and sparks fear in those who love to travel. Most crashes are reported
0:49.6	with a photo or a live stream after the crash and rescue if possible is already over.
0:56.1	But on January 13, 1982, when Air Florida Flight 90 crashed, it was broadcasted around the nation in real time.
1:06.0	People clung to their televisions while rescuers struggled to save the survivors, and it has
1:10.8	forever left a mark on all the people who witnessed that day.
1:15.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. And the I'm sorry, did you say the 13th?
1:41.0	I'm sorry, did you say the 13th? Yes.
1:42.0	Of. January, not February.
1:44.1	We're recording on February 13th right now.
1:46.6	Like, you've done it again.
1:48.4	Another anniversary.
1:49.6	It's close though.
1:50.7	It is very close.
1:52.4	And thank God I'm not the one doing a plane crash and it's you.
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