Love That Leaves the Shore

On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D. C. , and plunged into the ice-covered Potomac River during a blinding snowstorm. Of the seventy-nine people on board, only six initially survived, clinging to the wreckage in water barely above freezing. Hundreds of bystanders lined the shore, watching in horror as a helicopter lowered a lifeline again and again.…