30 years after Air Florida crash, skies safer than ever

This month and next, more than 2,600 jetliners will thunder down the same runway by the Potomac bound for the balmy Florida sunshine.

If you are on board one of them, escaping Washington in winter, take heart that your departure is far safer than it was 30 years ago today, when a combination of blunders catapulted a plane from that runway into the 14th Street Bridge.

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Craig Whitlock 13 Jan, 2012


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