[Scan-DC] I remember this one well

[John Antonelli]

Somewhere there is an Arlington COunty radio tape of the incident online.,

b_thom at juno.com wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13
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> 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into
> Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River,
> killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a
> Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people. 
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> That night, I walked from the middle of Alexandria to the crash site. No
> one was expected to show up, so I was able to walk onto the 14th Street
> Bridge. A car that had been hit by the plane was still there - a Renault
> Le Car, I believe. The snow was quite deep, so a long walk was made even
> more arduous.
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> Who listened to his scanner that day? I did not have public service
> crystals for my scanner, a four-channel Montgomery Ward scanner made by
> Sharp.
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