Cockpit Voice Recorder – Air Florida Flight 90 Crash
Viewer Discretion Advised Air Florida Flight 90 was an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737 airliner that crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, DC 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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@superfly181
You don’t use reverse engines before take off in winter conditions to back away from the gate…when you do, it pushes hot jet air towards the front of the plane andcan shoot a cloud of slush onto the wings and into the engine inlets and freeze those over…thus false readings during take off.
@Kiraly30 can i ask why he can’t do that ?
what happened pls ?
this is heart breaking…..rip
@Kiraly30
True, but if the plane had been deiced properly at 100% on the fluid, it would have been okay.
@TheGoldStandard2075
5 I believe.
@gatortail77
The pilot also reversed his engines to melt ice while waiting at the gate….which you should never do.
This weekend I went home for my 20 yr class reunion and thought about this. I grew up with the two sons of the co-pilot on this recording shouting to Larry. He is buried in our home town. (RIP Roger…..) He did warn the pilot to deice many times before take-off. Sadly, Roger wasn’t even schedueled to fly that morning.
Ironically, the two sons are now and have been pilots for major airlines and I would fly with them any day….. I still remember as if it was yesterday.
Larry shaved his nuts and anus.
to here “we’re going down Larry!” and then to here the crash it’s shocking and sad
@1rewd1 so u saw the whole thing???
@1rewd1 Ok. Thanks for the backup, lol.
@starwarsrebel2006 I was just backing you up, lol.
@1rewd1 I know it’s not fake. I was just telling TheExtremeGreenBeans that. I wasn’t there but I saw it on the news when it happened.
@starwarsrebel2006 I was on the bridge coming out of DC when the plane went over and in. It wasn’t fake.
@TheExtremeGreenBeans Google Air Florida Flight 90 and tell me how fake it is. It’s not fake. This really happened on January 13, 1982.
@krmcgannon
No, a stewardess survived along with 4 passengers. Some heroes made a spectacular high risk rescue operation. Real close for them.
Its a damm pity there is not a way to measure air speed by taking measurements in front and in back of the engines, just to gain some redundency and have the computers use DME also. These kinds of accidents really should never happen. Ridic
@6houston9
I worked for Air Florida at the time in Jacksonville. I knew the crew.
If I remember correctly (it’s been almost 30 years) they were deiced by either American or United Airlines in Washington, but they had cut the deicing fluid by over 50% with WATER, so it was, shall I say, less effective.
Investigators also found ice in the piot tube, which registers airspeed. The airspeed indicator showed a faster speed than they actually had. The pilot pulled up, but didn’t have the speed.
@krmcgannon no try 5 people
@krmcgannon 5
@Slaterator how intelligent u are
@MolokoPlus1980
Thank you ! I have been to the UK some weeks ago. I were in London and Dover. A very nice trip. I liked the people. They were very open-hearted. So you are also engaged with sad tragedys like this ?
@Slaterator Great comments. I agree. I’m from the UK.
Holy shit.
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