Mayday · SEASON 13
Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)
Episode 2 · 2013-12-23
- Documentary
- Drama
- Crime
Episode overview
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.
45 minutes
Season 13 episodes
1. Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)2013-12-16
2. Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)2013-12-23
3. Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)2013-12-30
4. Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)2014-01-06
5. Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)2014-01-13
6. Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)2014-01-20
7. Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)2014-01-27
8. Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)2014-02-03
9. Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)2014-02-10
10. Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)2014-02-17
