Mayday — Episode 2: Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)

You are watching the episode Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90) On 13 January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 takes off from a snowy runway in Washington D.C, stalls at 300 feet altitude, strikes a road bridge and crashes into the Potomac River, killing a total of 78 people. The causes were ice on the wings and the pilots' failure to turn on the engines' anti-freeze system, causing erroneous engine instrument readings.