Frank Reynolds was "class" personified--probably the best newsman in the league of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley---there certainly is no one currently who even comes close
david graham Wow, he sure did his best to hide it and to maintain a straight face. Love watching clips of old newscasts like this. Sometimes their sources had it wrong tho----they initially thought it was flight 35 headed to New York, hm???
His rant during the Reagan assassination attempt is the stuff of legends. If I remember right, that was caused by the erroneous report of Press Secretary James Brady's death. Reynolds went ballistic, live on air, when he realized there'd been a mistake and Brady was still alive.
@@storyofcory Isn't the phrase "Let's get this thing right!" (which he said on-air after conflicting reports on whether Brady had died or not) inscribed on his tombstone?
This is back when SPECIAL REPORT actually meant something REAL important happened. Today it's used for every celebrity sneeze or cough. That dilutes the power of special report
That ABC "Special Report" slide and the "We interrupt this program....." announcement always scared the crap outta me. Still does to this day. Actually getting chills just looking at it now! LOL
Yes, as a kid in the 70's and 80's, when your show abruptly stops, and those big red letters came across the screen, you knew it was something very bad. Still pumps my nerves to this day!!!!
This Air Florida plane crash will always be remembered for the heroic action of one passenger who although in shock/hypothermia kept passing a floatation device to other passengers (dropped by a helicopter that would subsequently pick up a passenger)--when he was the only person left to be rescued he disappeared under the icy waters
Let's not forget the passerby who, from the banks of the river, jumped in to get one of the passengers (could've been one of the flight attendants) who was floundering in the frigid waters. I believe the gentleman's name is Lenny Skutnik.
I sure miss Frank Reynolds. My mom reminds me of when we went to DC in 1984, and we went to Arlington. All I wanted to see was his graveside. He epitomized journalism... no politics, just the facts ma'am... and he was stern about that. Some folks will remember the time Reagan was shot. We need media personalities like this today. Just the facts
This was a disaster where individual heroism shined. Roger Olian was the first to dive in, Lenny Skutnik, saw a woman struggling in the river, and without hesitation dove into the frigid water to rescue her. Also a male passenger, Arland D. Williams Jr. continued to pass the rescue line to others before succumbing to the freezing water.
One of the most preventable crashes ever. So many pilot errors here. Shortly after this, they started putting de-icing trucks at the end of the runway so planes wouldn't lose their place in line (which they should have done a long time before that) No doubt some people in White Plains, NY were scared out of their minds when it was mistakenly reported that it was flight 35 bound their way that had crashed. In ABC's stable, Frank Reynolds was one of the best there was even if often the news was bad.
You can see all the people in the newsroom behind Reynolds (corespondents, writers, editors, videographers, producers, and probably even secretaries, production personnel, and janitors) on the phones trying to get information to pass on to Reynolds to broadcast on the air.
KajimiMan the time given is actually correct, this was recorded in Chicago which is 1 hour behind Washington so those local times are given. The plane crashed at 3:01 Chicago time and ABC first broke into programming at 3:22 (4:01 and 4:22pm Eastern).
+rpwVideoInstruction You'll be delighted to learn that the Federation of American Scientists (FAS.ORG) released an incredibly detailed report on what they theorized would happen were a multi-megaton nuclear bomb to be dropped onto Washington, DC.
The great Frank Reynolds reporting. He might have often been the bearer of bad news but I always liked watching him & some of the other greats of the day.
Interesting it was initially communicated by (FAA?) that it was Air Florida Flight 35 headed to White Plains, NY (Westchester Airport- HPN). What a horror to be watching that and being someone who knew someone on Flight 35 which was a mistake, or the actual Flight 90 and not realizing it.
I was 14 years old when this happened. We had the day off from school because of the snowstorm. I remember watching the whole thing play out live on the local news channel. Probably the most dramatic thing I ever saw on live TV. I remember how guilty I felt at being happy that we had a day off from school and realizing that the weather caused the accident. On another note, Frank Reynolds was such a great news anchor. They don't make them like that anymore. TV news back then was real news, not like the propaganda (Fox) and scare mongering (everybody) we get now.
In the wake of the accident, Air Florida went out of business...and my brother was annoyed because he bought some kind of lifetime discount pass from them.
Out of all of them on ABC....even all the other networks...the only other one to rival Frank Reynolds was Tom Brokaw....Frank just was so good at his job....RIP sir.
I remember this accident which led the FAA to institute sweeping changes relating to de-icing procedures which the airlines implemented immediately after. It was a tragic event in which there were acts of heroism by individuals before first responders arrived on the scene. R.I.P. to all those who perished.
He was Damn Serious & Could Get Freaking Emotional! I Remember When He Snapped During Regan's Attempted Assassination on the Air at News Staffers For not Giving Him Accurate Information on Regan's Condition Back in March 81!
i was 10, and had just gotten off from school. i still remember the picture of the man's hand sticking out of his car. i guess the plane had hit his car, and he was dead. that gave me nightmares for weeks.
The plane that was mentioned here heading for White Plains, New York must have been Flight #35 bound for the Westchester County Airport I just went by. I'm on the megabus bound for Boston and I believe this was the airport Frank Reynolds mentioned.
@@paulsonj72. Although satellites were in operation, it takes a little time for news operations to get spooled up, reporters out to the scene & gather information; all the while dealing with/a Major snowstorm & train derailment @ the same time.
Edge of Night did run at 3pm - up until about mid-1980 when the 3:30 Movie became The 3:00 Movie (due to WLS-TV's new 4:30pm news program). It was then moved to a 9:30am timeslot.
I was in my senior government class in high school. We had the TV set in the classroom to watch something on tape. When the teacher popped the tape out the regular live tv came on with “special report” popped up on the screen back when it meant something. We watched it live. It was a year of special reports. Reagan was shot, the pope was shot, and John Lennon was shot. I remember seeing the guy jump in the water off the bridge to save people. Our teacher a WWII vet was amazed by his bravery.
Relatives in Tampa & White Plains must have been terrified when the initial reports said the plane was bound for those destinations but it turned out to be Fort Lauderdale.
I suspect that the "big three" network stations in Washington (WRC, WJLA and WUSA) probably went wall-to-wall for several hours through the end of that afternoon.
Was there something sinister behind AF90 ?? I checked what ToxiCom wrote below -- the flight was carrying a number of people involved with cellular telephony. Several military personnel. William Zondler, Dallas, president Gencom, Inc. (interesting, huge real estate holding company, no private jet??) and then these: (1) J. Carluccio, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (2) Robert Essary, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries. (3) Bert Hamilton, 41, Virginia previous Gaithersburg, Md., employed by Fairchild Industries (survivor). (4) Eric Kaufman, Walkersville, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (5) Robert Laudani, 43, Gaithersburg, Md., employee of Fairchild Industries. (6) Benson Levinson, Silver Spring, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (7) Theodore Smolen, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries. (8) Robert Trexler, Middletown, Md., Fairchild Industries. That's 8 people from Fairchild, a maker of RF chips, in the early days of RF telephony....hmmm, maybe someone should follow-up with the survivor (#3), ask him what the team was up to. Motorola, a competitor, of course took on the suddenly available RF chip business...now worth trillions -- cell industry is 10x Big Pharma and at least as vicious and psychopathically evil. By the way, in one of the 9/11 "planes" (which were all curiously at one-half to three-quarters empty seats) there were a bunch of employees of Raytheon, maker of the Directed Energy Weaponry used in 9/11 and other locations, as noted at conspira.org --- possibly all just total repeating coincidence, but also interesting enough to look into. The 11 people looking into Watergate that were all conveniently taken out in Flight 553 Chicago (with E Howard Hunt's wife), same pattern. Ron Brown / Clinton taken out. Sen Paul Wellstone taken out. RFK Jr taken out. Bev Eckert (rich, beautiful 911 widow who wouldn't take the hush money and shut up, met and threatened Obama in White House, then -- blap! -- down goes her plane, colgan 3407). Sherman Skolnick looked into the flight 553. Prof Fetzer looked into Paul Wellstone and found only anomalies and impossibilities. See also the research of Dr Judy Wood. It all seems connectable in dark ways far beyond coincidence. The purposeful downing of planes "is an old CIA trick" (to quote Prof Griff), so we shouldn't fall for that.
WTF , I was then 9 years old when this story happened, because they interrupted the original movie with this late, breaking news, which shows an aircraft that had nearly 100 people on it, which crashed into the Potomac river, killing many of its passengers and crew, but there were survivors right after that, because I remember watching part of that news footage, which shows a helicopter hoisting a young woman add the icy cold water and on to the shoreline then I remember seeing someone removing their jacket, then jumping into the water just to get someone else out of there themselves risking hypothermia, and everything in between.
It happened in Mid-January 1982, during a snowstorm, that plane clipped the bridge, killing several motorists who were inside their vehicles that were crushed by the impact of the plane, which then plunged into near-freezing temperatures in the Potomac River; the crash happened after the plane was in midair for roughly 30 seconds. Many of the casualties on the plane drowned or were overcome by the exposure due to the freezing conditions in the river. The pilots failed to activate a mechanism that would've de-iced the wings on the plane. The wings had been de-iced while the plane was at the airport but, after being left exposed to the elements outside for nearly an hour before taking off again, the wings of the plane were frozen with ice again. Despite repeated warnings of ice on the wings & whether or not they should've even taken off in the 1st place, the pilots lifted off....it was a disaster waiting to happen...& it only took roughly 30-odd seconds for it to happen. :-(
My wife was a com air attendant and her regular flight from Cincinnati to Detroit crashed 3 weeks after she quit. The crash was due to deicing practices that I think is still questionable they would deice then wait in line to long for take off I think.I still get chills thinking about hearing it on the news that afternoon Comair flight 3272
Today, it's not a slide, but a video featuring a different version of the "dah-dah-dah-dah...dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah" jingle ABC has used for newscasts since the late 1970's accompanied by a rotating globe and the words "ABC News Special Report" for the visual, while an off-screen announcer said "This is an ABC News Special Report". Then the anchor comes on to announce the news.
Frank Reynolds was The Man! Commanding...in control...just enough genuine emotion and none of the posed with arched eyebrows and by the book overdone facial expressions so prevalent in reporting today. He was never better than during his coverage of the assassination attempt on president Reagans life. Such a shame he was taken from us so young. ABC replaced him with Peter Jennings, a competent news reader but a lightweight by comparison.
Imagine your loved one was on Flight 90 and you hear the first report; you're horrified but have a bit of hope because Frank Reynolds says there are survivors. Then the second report comes on and he says it was actually flight 35; now you're elated that your loved one is safe after all. . .
mmhmm - I wonder what the odds are that someone (1) saw the bulletins and (2) knew someone on either plane. Hopefully not that many - but that news would've been all over the place . . . hmmm - life can do that, horrible.
They sure do today, as they are nothing more than the left arm of the demoncratic propaganda machine. News is something they are not known for, only mind programming for a certain group of ignorant people!! Sad times indeed!!!!!
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Frank Reynolds was "class" personified--probably the best newsman in the league of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley---there certainly is no one currently who even comes close
david graham Reynolds was indeed one of the greats in newscasting. He died rather suddenly, I believe in 1985.
Mark Muffs No-he had been ill for several years (cancer and hepatitis)
david graham Wow, he sure did his best to hide it and to maintain a straight face. Love watching clips of old newscasts like this. Sometimes their sources had it wrong tho----they initially thought it was flight 35 headed to New York, hm???
His rant during the Reagan assassination attempt is the stuff of legends. If I remember right, that was caused by the erroneous report of Press Secretary James Brady's death. Reynolds went ballistic, live on air, when he realized there'd been a mistake and Brady was still alive.
@@storyofcory Isn't the phrase "Let's get this thing right!" (which he said on-air after conflicting reports on whether Brady had died or not) inscribed on his tombstone?
My mother said that she can remember me knowing who Frank Reynolds was at a very young age and how I said prayers for him when he died.
This is back when SPECIAL REPORT actually meant something REAL important happened. Today it's used for every celebrity sneeze or cough. That dilutes the power of special report
11 years later from your post, this is still true. All day long is "breaking news".
That ABC "Special Report" slide and the "We interrupt this program....." announcement always scared the crap outta me. Still does to this day. Actually getting chills just looking at it now! LOL
Yes, as a kid in the 70's and 80's, when your show abruptly stops, and those big red letters came across the screen, you knew it was something very bad. Still pumps my nerves to this day!!!!
I thought I was the only one.......
I was eleven years old when John Hinkley Jr shot Ronald Reagan, and I *still* can't go back and watch the CNN coverage.
I always feared these "Special Reports" too--always thought they would report a nuclear attack or assassination
Now every little thing is Breaking News. The term Special Report is extinct
This Air Florida plane crash will always be remembered for the heroic action of one passenger who although in shock/hypothermia kept passing a floatation device to other passengers (dropped by a helicopter that would subsequently pick up a passenger)--when he was the only person left to be rescued he disappeared under the icy waters
Arland Williams, 46, was his name. He gave his life to save the others.
I believe the 14th street bridge that the plane hit--has been renamed in honor of Mr. Williams
Yes it has.
Let's not forget the passerby who, from the banks of the river, jumped in to get one of the passengers (could've been one of the flight attendants) who was floundering in the frigid waters. I believe the gentleman's name is Lenny Skutnik.
storyofcory Lenny received honor from President Reagan for his heroism. He risked his life in that water to save hers
I sure miss Frank Reynolds. My mom reminds me of when we went to DC in 1984, and we went to Arlington. All I wanted to see was his graveside. He epitomized journalism... no politics, just the facts ma'am... and he was stern about that. Some folks will remember the time Reagan was shot. We need media personalities like this today. Just the facts
40 years ago today. Very sad. God bless the victims and their families. And God bless Arland Williams. He was a hero. RIP.
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
This was a disaster where individual heroism shined. Roger Olian was the first to dive in, Lenny Skutnik, saw a woman struggling in the river, and without hesitation dove into the frigid water to rescue her. Also a male passenger, Arland D. Williams Jr. continued to pass the rescue line to others before succumbing to the freezing water.
Another great piece of history. As sad as this incident was, it serves as a nice reminder of a time I miss with everything in me.
40 years ago today we will never forget
Nice raw reaction from Frank at 5:17 when Ann says the tops of cars have been sheared off… you don’t see much humanity like that these days.
I thought the SAME thing. He flinched. I'm also impressed with Ann Compton--the reporter talking to Frank. She did an incredible job.
I remember this as it was reported when I got home from school. Now, it's been so many years ago. It's surreal. And so sad.
One of the most preventable crashes ever. So many pilot errors here. Shortly after this, they started putting de-icing trucks at the end of the runway so planes wouldn't lose their place in line (which they should have done a long time before that)
No doubt some people in White Plains, NY were scared out of their minds when it was mistakenly reported that it was flight 35 bound their way that had crashed.
In ABC's stable, Frank Reynolds was one of the best there was even if often the news was bad.
What happened to this type of reporting? Wish it would come back!
This was from a Chicago broadcast, so all times are in C.S.T.
You can see all the people in the newsroom behind Reynolds (corespondents, writers, editors, videographers, producers, and probably even secretaries, production personnel, and janitors) on the phones trying to get information to pass on to Reynolds to broadcast on the air.
KajimiMan the time given is actually correct, this was recorded in Chicago which is 1 hour behind Washington so those local times are given. The plane crashed at 3:01 Chicago time and ABC first broke into programming at 3:22 (4:01 and 4:22pm Eastern).
u have a really cool channel; thanks for uploading these videos.
Loved Frank Reynolds! My favorite newsman ever! Integrity and character are no longer requirements for news people.So sad. RIP Mr. Reynolds!
+Cherilyn Hannen Sadly, little did we know that Brian Williams actually had no integrity or character..what a shame.
Quick shot of the Second Darren from Bewitched in an Elvis movie lol. Nice! 2:35
Frank was a rock as a newsman and how about Ann Compton checking in with the solid live report from the trenches
So sad😥😥 poor young pilots
Wow I was born two days before this crash, January 11th 1982. A lot has changed since then.
I was born a day before you.
I was born exactly a week before the crash. Jan. 6, 1982
I hate you people with your little birthday club - you make me want to burn someone with cake candles.
yes of course i'm joking.
I Also Heard that a WMATA Train Derailed Around the Same Time Also of the Crash!
That’s true. 3 died in that derailment, but the plane crash that day overshadowed it.
Frank Reynolds was first class.
Whenever the special reports came on, we all got really scared, because our first thought was that the Russians were bombing.....
That was my experience as well. :-)
rpwVideoInstruction I remember feeling the same way.... i was only about 12 years old at the time.
+rpwVideoInstruction You'll be delighted to learn that the Federation of American Scientists (FAS.ORG) released an incredibly detailed report on what they theorized would happen were a multi-megaton nuclear bomb to be dropped onto Washington, DC.
+rpwVideoInstruction HELL YES!! I just had a conversation with someone about that recently
Wow, I me too!!! LOL!!
The great Frank Reynolds reporting. He might have often been the bearer of bad news but I always liked watching him & some of the other greats of the day.
Those Special Reports Busted Our Bubbles, But We Needed To Hear What Happened .
Interesting it was initially communicated by (FAA?) that it was Air Florida Flight 35 headed to White Plains, NY (Westchester Airport- HPN). What a horror to be watching that and being someone who knew someone on Flight 35 which was a mistake, or the actual Flight 90 and not realizing it.
Very informative perspective.
RIP, Frank Reynolds.
I was 14 years old when this happened. We had the day off from school because of the snowstorm. I remember watching the whole thing play out live on the local news channel. Probably the most dramatic thing I ever saw on live TV. I remember how guilty I felt at being happy that we had a day off from school and realizing that the weather caused the accident. On another note, Frank Reynolds was such a great news anchor. They don't make them like that anymore. TV news back then was real news, not like the propaganda (Fox) and scare mongering (everybody) we get now.
In the wake of the accident, Air Florida went out of business...and my brother was annoyed because he bought some kind of lifetime discount pass from them.
that is annoying - I'll bet he wouldn't want the flight 90 life span discount though - maybe better off not flying / crashing with them.
Out of all of them on ABC....even all the other networks...the only other one to rival Frank Reynolds was Tom Brokaw....Frank just was so good at his job....RIP sir.
How Come I Haven’t Heard of it
I remember this accident which led the FAA to institute sweeping changes relating to de-icing procedures which the airlines implemented immediately after. It was a tragic event in which there were acts of heroism by individuals before first responders arrived on the scene. R.I.P. to all those who perished.
He was Damn Serious & Could Get Freaking Emotional! I Remember When He Snapped During Regan's Attempted Assassination on the Air at News Staffers For not Giving Him Accurate Information on Regan's Condition Back in March 81!
I remember that vividly "SPEAK UP!" He went ballistic when he learned Reagan was indeed hit and critically.
@@ChristopherSaindon We desperately need more journalists like him nowadays.
You are right. Carl Bernstein was Washington Bureau Chief in the early 80's.
40 years ago Winter was cold. Potomac would usually freeze over.
This plane went through 6 inches of ice.
yeah but it's Boeing quality we're talking - six inches? Like a hot knife through soft butter.
and they probably still had people calling them about interrupting the King
a millisecond of peter desnoes at the beginning!
i was 10, and had just gotten off from school. i still remember the picture of the man's hand sticking out of his car. i guess the plane had hit his car, and he was dead. that gave me nightmares for weeks.
And you think . . . how unlucky can you get? I'm on a bridge in my vehicle and struck by a frickin 737?
The plane that was mentioned here heading for White Plains, New York must have been Flight #35 bound for the Westchester County Airport I just went by. I'm on the megabus bound for Boston and I believe this was the airport Frank Reynolds mentioned.
The lawsuits that came forth after this tragedy had to have bankrupted the airline.
I guess I didn't realize that Ann Compton had been with ABC for FOREVER.
How long Frank Reynolds been working for ABC?
2022...and I still want the update. .. oh well... back to da movie...
I remembered that cold day in DC
sir, the time is wrong. The plane struck the bridge at 4:01 PM not 3:22PM
Likely crashed at 4:01 on et while the special report came in at 3:22 ct
@@paulsonj72. Although satellites were in operation, it takes a little time for news operations to get spooled up, reporters out to the scene & gather information; all the while dealing with/a Major snowstorm & train derailment @ the same time.
4:03 Ann Compton live audio
Did WLS run "Edge of Night" on a delay the next morning? It seems odd that as an O and O they wouldn't run "Edge of Night" at 3.
Edge of Night did run at 3pm - up until about mid-1980 when the 3:30 Movie became The 3:00 Movie (due to WLS-TV's new 4:30pm news program). It was then moved to a 9:30am timeslot.
Got it. Thanks!
I was in my senior government class in high school. We had the TV set in the classroom to watch something on tape. When the teacher popped the tape out the regular live tv came on with “special report” popped up on the screen back when it meant something. We watched it live. It was a year of special reports. Reagan was shot, the pope was shot, and John Lennon was shot. I remember seeing the guy jump in the water off the bridge to save people. Our teacher a WWII vet was amazed by his bravery.
At 3:30pm??!
@@MondoMiami I’m in the central time zone.
@@jbratt Still sounds made up to me.
@@MondoMiami I graduated in ‘82 you can look up all the events. Seems like a strange thing to lie about.
@@MondoMiami Lennon was shot my sophomore year.
Relatives in Tampa & White Plains must have been terrified when the initial reports said the plane was bound for those destinations but it turned out to be Fort Lauderdale.
It was bound for Tampa before its ultimate destination of Ft. Lauderdale
ABC brought us the live coverage of the helicopter.
Reynolds was a News *BOSS!*
I suspect that the "big three" network stations in Washington (WRC, WJLA and WUSA) probably went wall-to-wall for several hours through the end of that afternoon.
and there was a confusión with flight numbers...why did it happened? Flight 35 to White Plains....didnt know about it
Was there something sinister behind AF90 ??
I checked what ToxiCom wrote below -- the flight was carrying a number of people involved with cellular telephony. Several military personnel. William Zondler, Dallas, president Gencom, Inc. (interesting, huge real estate holding company, no private jet??)
and then these: (1) J. Carluccio, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (2) Robert Essary, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries. (3) Bert Hamilton, 41, Virginia previous Gaithersburg, Md., employed by Fairchild Industries (survivor). (4) Eric Kaufman, Walkersville, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (5) Robert Laudani, 43, Gaithersburg, Md., employee of Fairchild Industries. (6) Benson Levinson, Silver Spring, Md., Fairchild Industries employee. (7) Theodore Smolen, Gaithersburg, Md., Fairchild Industries. (8) Robert Trexler, Middletown, Md., Fairchild Industries.
That's 8 people from Fairchild, a maker of RF chips, in the early days of RF telephony....hmmm, maybe someone should follow-up with the survivor (#3), ask him what the team was up to.
Motorola, a competitor, of course took on the suddenly available RF chip business...now worth trillions -- cell industry is 10x Big Pharma and at least as vicious and psychopathically evil.
By the way, in one of the 9/11 "planes" (which were all curiously at one-half to three-quarters empty seats) there were a bunch of employees of Raytheon, maker of the Directed Energy Weaponry used in 9/11 and other locations, as noted at conspira.org --- possibly all just total repeating coincidence, but also interesting enough to look into.
The 11 people looking into Watergate that were all conveniently taken out in Flight 553 Chicago (with E Howard Hunt's wife), same pattern.
Ron Brown / Clinton taken out. Sen Paul Wellstone taken out. RFK Jr taken out. Bev Eckert (rich, beautiful 911 widow who wouldn't take the hush money and shut up, met and threatened Obama in White House, then -- blap! -- down goes her plane, colgan 3407).
Sherman Skolnick looked into the flight 553. Prof Fetzer looked into Paul Wellstone and found only anomalies and impossibilities.
See also the research of Dr Judy Wood. It all seems connectable in dark ways far beyond coincidence.
The purposeful downing of planes "is an old CIA trick" (to quote Prof Griff), so we shouldn't fall for that.
WTF , I was then 9 years old when this story happened, because they interrupted the original movie with this late, breaking news, which shows an aircraft that had nearly 100 people on it, which crashed into the Potomac river, killing many of its passengers and crew, but there were survivors right after that, because I remember watching part of that news footage, which shows a helicopter hoisting a young woman add the icy cold water and on to the shoreline then I remember seeing someone removing their jacket, then jumping into the water just to get someone else out of there themselves risking hypothermia, and everything in between.
It looks like to me that the crash happened in either early or late 1982, hence the snow on the ground.
Early 1982, possibly January.
The exact air date and time is in the video description.
Doug Badgley The exact air date and time is in the video description.
Callie Ray. The exact air date and time is in the video description.
It happened in Mid-January 1982, during a snowstorm, that plane clipped the bridge, killing several motorists who were inside their vehicles that were crushed by the impact of the plane, which then plunged into near-freezing temperatures in the Potomac River; the crash happened after the plane was in midair for roughly 30 seconds. Many of the casualties on the plane drowned or were overcome by the exposure due to the freezing conditions in the river. The pilots failed to activate a mechanism that would've de-iced the wings on the plane. The wings had been de-iced while the plane was at the airport but, after being left exposed to the elements outside for nearly an hour before taking off again, the wings of the plane were frozen with ice again. Despite repeated warnings of ice on the wings & whether or not they should've even taken off in the 1st place, the pilots lifted off....it was a disaster waiting to happen...& it only took roughly 30-odd seconds for it to happen. :-(
My wife was a com air attendant and her regular flight from Cincinnati to Detroit crashed 3 weeks after she quit. The crash was due to deicing practices that I think is still questionable they would deice then wait in line to long for take off I think.I still get chills thinking about hearing it on the news that afternoon Comair flight 3272
January 13th, 1982. Thats when this happened:
3 days after I was born.
Is that Carl Bernstein in the background?
Joe Meehan Yes
“Frank, can you look a little bit to your right?”
Did all of abc break in to bring this breaking news!
Damn that font colour
Makes me feel scared
The times are eastern or central?
This is from wls in Chicago. So my guess would be central
That has to be Carl Bernstein on the phone behind Frank Reynolds.
I remember when this happened!.
Hello? Air Florida? How much does it cost to fly from Washington National Airport to the 14th Street Bridge?
That joke got Howard Stern fired if I remember right
Very, Very Tasteless!!! Grow up!!!!!
@@scotabot7826 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Today is the 40th Anniversary.
Today, it's not a slide, but a video featuring a different version of the "dah-dah-dah-dah...dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah" jingle ABC has used for newscasts since the late 1970's accompanied by a rotating globe and the words "ABC News Special Report" for the visual, while an off-screen announcer said "This is an ABC News Special Report".
Then the anchor comes on to announce the news.
yah-yah-yah-yah I hear yah-yah-yah-yah
de ice the wings?
MichaelHansenFUN They initially did but the snow got so heavy they needed a second de-icing but chose not to and that was a fatal mistake.
Mark Muffs there is comments made by howard stern and jello biafra
The stupid fucking pilot tried to deice the fucking front of the plane with the plane in front of it's jet exhaust..this all could have been avoided.
Dammit, the friggin news bulletin is interrupting my show.
When I think of "live a little, love a little" I think of Dick Sargent...
At least Elvis knew he didn't have a rival...
He died of AIDS complications if I remember correctly.
Frank Reynolds was The Man! Commanding...in control...just enough genuine emotion and none of the posed with arched eyebrows and by the book overdone facial expressions so prevalent in reporting today. He was never better than during his coverage of the assassination attempt on president Reagans life. Such a shame he was taken from us so young. ABC replaced him with Peter Jennings, a competent news reader but a lightweight by comparison.
Right plane model
Wrong flight number it was flight 90
Wrong location it was headed to hollywood Florida
Me too!
that looks like Carl Bernstein over Frank's left shoulder working the phones (I know Bernstein did work for ABC in the early 1980s)
Everytime I see Frank Reynolds I think of William Shatner.
Imagine your loved one was on Flight 90 and you hear the first report; you're horrified but have a bit of hope because Frank Reynolds says there are survivors. Then the second report comes on and he says it was actually flight 35; now you're elated that your loved one is safe after all. . .
mmhmm - I wonder what the odds are that someone (1) saw the bulletins and (2) knew someone on either plane. Hopefully not that many - but that news would've been all over the place . . . hmmm - life can do that, horrible.
January 13, 1982
I used to think the same thing.
Back when they only reported the news and did it professionally. Without political spin.
Washington National should have been closed to commercial traffic in the 1960s. If everyone has to fly to Dulles or BWI, too freaking bad.
Reynolds had a big screwup. Should have stuck to his original report. Those people up in White Plains were probably in panic mode for a few moments.
It wasn't Reynolds' report. ABC apparently got bad information from the airport.
"We don't know the destination... tampa or whitepliaines... we know it just ain't gonna cut it this time...
If this happened today, the news would start speculating how this was Trump's fault.
ABC puts me to sleep
They sure do today, as they are nothing more than the left arm of the demoncratic propaganda machine. News is something they are not known for, only mind programming for a certain group of ignorant people!! Sad times indeed!!!!!
No doubt there were some upset dim-witted Elvis fans out there phoning in their complaints. Guaranteed.👎🏾