Frozen Flight Crashes In the Potomac River
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The Impact of the 14th Street Bridge on the Right Wing
As the aircraft descended, the right wing was structurally damaged when it hit a boom truck. I shortly thereafter, the aircraft struck the steel barrier and railing on the west side of the 14th Street bridge at an elevation of about 37 feet mean sea level. Were they trying to land on the bridge or did they just hit the bridge like perpendicular? They didn't have any control of perpendicular. And fragments of the right wing remained on the bridge and the remainder of the wreckage sank in the Potomac River with 25 to 30 feet of water.
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