Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost exactly 43 years later, he heard news of the American Airlines crash on the ...
The Boeing 737-200 plane plunged into the river after hitting the 14th Street Bridge near the Pentagon ... ‘I know it’ before the plane hit the bridge. Its right wing was badly damaged ...
The scene on the 14th Street Bridge following the ... when a passenger plane weighed down by ice on its wings crashed into a bridge shortly after takeoff from the airport, killing 78 people.
For David Huff, who lives in Auburndale, it brought him back to Jan. 13, 1982, when he and his partner from work were crossing the 14th ... hit it; something hit that bridge’.” It was the plane.