Arland Williams' fiancee said he didn't know how to swim and was terrified of the water but he kept a cool head and helped save the 5 survivors.

Only five people survived, and 78 were killed when an Air Florida Flight 90 stalled and crashed just ... under the surface was around 1C and the survivors ended up being in the water ‘from ...

DC plane clash: How Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac in 1982 ... that Williams was the hero who saved the five lone survivors of the crash, but evidence suggests he was.

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 ...

Read full article: ‘Risking lives to save others’: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90 Donald Usher, a former helicopter pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air ...

A survivor of a deadly 1982 plane crash into ... Joseph Stiley, 86, is one of five people who survived that disaster, when Air Florida Flight 90 left what is now Washington Reagan National Airport ...

At that time, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed on Jan. 13, 1982, immediately following take-off from what was then known Washington National Airport. Unfolding in icy, snowy conditions, the airliner’s ...