It also found the Air Florida crew didn't have the experience to question the captain.Īs a result, the industry formalized a concept known as "crew resource management," which means if either pilot, but notably the co-pilot, spots trouble, he should voice it loudly.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the accident on the pilots' failure to abort the takeoff and have the wings properly de-iced. More than a year after the crash, Williams was honored in an Oval Office ceremony. That letter prompted a Coast Guard investigation. Williams' mother, Virginia, wrote to President Ronald Reagan, asking that her son be named as the hero. Arland Williams, 46, was the only victim of the crash who died of drowning, not trauma. Park Police helicopter rescuers, refused their lifeline, indicating it should go to the others. The New York Times Magazine featured the survivors' story this past Sunday.Ī sixth person initially survived the crash but, according to U.S. Bert Hamilton died of a heart attack and Patricia Felch, Stiley's former administrative assistant, died of pancreatic cancer, just 2 ½ weeks after Hamilton's death. This past spring, two of the five survivors died of natural causes. Priscilla Tirado, now 43, survived the crash, but lost her 2-month-old son and husband in the crash. It was really through him I had heard we crashed into a bridge." I heard David Hartman's voice saying Air Florida and it got my attention.
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"When I was in intensive care I didn't have a TV but I could hear, off in the distance, Good Morning America. Stiley suffered hypothermia, a broken arm, leg, a skull fracture, broken jaw and spinal injuries.ĭuncan woke up in the hospital the morning after the crash without knowing what had really happened. "You could see out one side, but not really the other side," said Stiley, now 63. He said there was still snow and slush on the wings and he remembered wishing he could get off the plane. Stiley, a pilot himself, said he realized that something was wrong as the plane headed down the runway. Joe Stiley told ABCNEWS in 1982, that the freezing water jarred him into consciousness.īoth Stiley and Duncan joined ABCNEWS' Good Morning America today for a look back at their amazing survival, against all odds. Today Duncan, 43, is a preschool teacher at a Christian school.
"My next feeling was that I was just floating through white and I felt like I was dying and I just thought I'm not really ready to die," she told ABCNEWS back in 1982.