CBS Evening News open 01/13/1982

[@donnaburns3927]

News was actually news back then.

[@jjohnston326]

6. 6 people survived. My father's friend died in that crash.

[@epaddon]

Five people. Joe Stiley, Kelly Duncan, Priscilla Tirado, Burt Hamilton and Nikki Felch. A sixth passenger, Arland Williams survived the crash but was trapped in the wreckage and later drowned before he could be rescued.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

I remembered when this happened. I was in 7th grade. I remembered the accounts of heroism, and sacrifice. I still remember all these decades later.

[@adams9454]

Looking at the news clip, and the people at that time it’s amazing how heroic all of those people were, God bless their souls.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

3:24 The guy jumping in just as the cold had the victim paralyzed was one of the bravest thing I had ever witnessed. I remember watching this in high school.

[@morellapoe2814]

Lenny Skutnik is the man! Along with helicopter 🚁 pilot Don Usher and his medic Gene Windsor. Amazing.

[@NathanielEssex1849]

This was truly a Friday the 13th day. While the Air Florida plane was crashing, Metrorail derailed only a mile from the 14th Street bridge. I can't get over the irony from that day.

[@a.walters123]

Oh jeeze I didn’t even know about the metrorail, imagine being an emergency responder on that day. Two giant tragedies in the middle of a Armageddon blizzard.

[@robertbauers2210]

@NathanielEssex1849 January 13 1982 was on a Wednesday

[@NathanielEssex1849]

@@robertbauers2210 How about that? You are right! It did fall on a Wednesday.

[@luvsilly60]

The Metro rail crash was really bad. Little attention.

[@bonethirsty]

@@luvsilly604 killed I believe. I was home from school because of the storm. We lived in Fairfax, Virginia. I still remember watching this and, 4 years later, the Challenger explosion live on our black/white tv in our kitchen.

[@kevinschwinkendorf1504]

Back when news was news and not just garbage like it is now

[@fairfaxcat1312]

All “news” was ruined whenever National Guard Memogate Ratherbiased reported it.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Dan Ratherbiased turned all news to crap. Maybe his dishonesty is why he looks and talks like he’s battling a stinky shart in his underwear.

[@yolandagofigure]

I remember, 😢 i was 11 yrs old.

[@dustinriddell8374]

Remember this day

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

5 people survived. Heros who helped them out saved him. RIP. A tragedy .

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

Good Evening, This is the CBS EVENING NEWS, Dan Rather Reporting

[@111danish111]

Salute to the man who jumped and swam to rescue the woman.

[@kevinmalone3210]

He was later invited to the State of the Union address and acknowledged by President Reagan for his heroic action.

[@CruceEntertainment]

Unbelievable that anyone thought that was a good day for flying. God bless the helicopter pilot who didn’t think it was a good day for a flying either but had no choice! RIP all those passengers and crew and commuters on the ground.

[@Biscuit1973]

That scene was an Esther Shocker because I remember hearing and seeing about this on the news about 40 years ago when this airliner had taken off during a heavy blizzard, then crashing into the Potomac River just minutes after takeoff and I believe the aircraft had at least over 100 people on it, but only seven or less survivors within plucked out of the water, because I remember watching the original news footage of the daring rescues that these people had to do the save the people that were in the water that just came out of the aircraft after it crashed in sanked into the water.

[@NESninja1982]

That is some amazing helicopter piloting! I wouldn't be surprised if he was a Vietnam vet.

[@jhbuilders]

This heli Pilot is truly unbelievable

[@tousaint520]

He was a civil war vet.

[@Biscuit1973]

Is there anyone reading these comments at this account because this was all over the television, not just local news, but worldwide television, because an airliner, which was bound for Florida, had taken off during a winter storm, then lost altitude, smashing into a bridge, then into the Potomac river nearby because the aircraft had nearly 100 people on board and many of them died but only a few survived because I remember seeing the original news footage of helicopters hoisting, a young woman out of the water and then I remember seeing a man dive into the icy cold water just a grab someone else out also because that footage was a true Esther Shocker there .

[@logicalspark3496]

Ahhh dan Rather, the 6 million dollar liar

[@anonymous-lt3yd]

All due to the FL pilots forgetting to de-ice the wings.