"Larry! We're going down, Larry!"
— Last words
January 1, 1970
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Who: First Officer Roger Pettit to Captain Larry Wheaton of Air Florida Flight 90, January 13, 1982. — Note: The plane lost altitude after a failed takeoff attempt and struck the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington D.C., killing all but four passengers and one flight attendant. A subsequent investigation determined that the pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal ice protection systems, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to takeoff, and failed to abort the tak
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Who: First Officer Roger Pettit to Captain Larry Wheaton of Air Florida Flight 90, January 13, 1982. — Note: The plane lost altitude after a failed takeoff attempt and struck the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington D.C., killing all but four passengers and one flight attendant. A subsequent investigation determined that the pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal ice protection systems, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to takeoff, and failed to abort the tak