Transcription: Flight ended in disaster within seconds of leaving the ground. The Air Florida plane, a modern twin engine 737 jetliner, flew only a few feet above the Potomac River before striking the 14th Street Bridge and plummeting into the icy water. On the shoreline, Lenny Stutnik, a worker at the Congressional Budget Office, had stopped his car and joined a small group on the riverbank. Stutnik was to become one of the heroes this tragic night. I jerked my coat off in my boots and dove in and I just went out and got out there and pushed her toward the shore until they were within reach of the people on ...
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