ACI - Air Florida Flight 90

Air Florida Flight 90 was an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737-222 airliner that crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982 immediately after takeoff in a severe snowstorm. The accident claimed the lives of 78 people, including four motorists on the 14th Street Bridge. However, a few survivors from the shattered aircraft were rescued from the icy river by a combination of heroic efforts of civilians and professionals. Some of that heroism was commended during President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union speech a few days later. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. The pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal anti-icing equipment, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to take-off, and failed to abort takeoff per FAA regulations even after detecting a power problem while taxiing, and visually identifying ice and snow buildup on the wings.

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[Ilovekirby]

I never even heard of "Air Florida"

Did it merge before the mid 1990s when I was born?

[MrPixarGuy]

Not ACI

[radudeATL]

Commercials? Weird.

[mmichaeldonavon]

Have worked "high EPR" indication problems. Lots of times there were leaks in the forward "PT-0" probe lines (to the transducer). The engine section probes, PT-7, cause the EPR gauges to go "high"; the PT-0 probe inputs pressures cause the EPR gauges to read lower - thus, the two pressures "balance", at the transducer, and the cockpit gauges will be the correct "Engine Pressure Ratio" (of engine inlet press vs. exhaust press). No input from the front probes (outside the eng), high reading.

[epopchock]

@RbVDK I could ask the same question.

[RbVDK]

focking adverts!!! Why didn't you simply edit them out??

[imcapnberry]

all the captain had to do was firewall it and everything would have fine

[Fanik10]

Let us all remember the Flight 90 distaster on the 30th Anniversary. Many lost, few saved, 1 expert helicoptor pilot, 1 medic fighting the odds, 1 selfless man, 1 passenger refusing to die on his son's birthday and 2 brave civilians.

[mattxr2i]

@noreason2701 troll

[jstrawse]

I was in the area that day , and as it started to snow our contruction company shut the job down for the day so I headed home to Pa. I got home about 3 pm and watched it on the news that evening, I told my wife how we just crossed that bridge earlier today on the way home . I will never forget watching that woman clinging on to the life line from the helicopter.