We would be remiss to not mention yesterday’s anniversary of the January 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the Potomac River shortly after taking off from National Airport. Brown Pau has a post on Metafilter pointing us to a whole host of good links about the disaster, which claimed 78 lives on board and on the 14th Street Bridge, where the plane had crashed into gridlocked traffic before sinking into the icy Potomac. Only five people from Flight 90 survived the crash.

In an unrelated transportation mishap minutes later, a metrorail train derailed near the crossover tracks between Federal Triangle and Smithsonian stations, shutting the Orange and Blue lines. Three people died and 25 were injured in that crash, which was blamed on operator error.

Do you remember that cold snowy day?

(Map of Air Florida crash from Roads to the Future‘s write-up of the transportation mishaps of that fateful day.)