When Faith Strips Off Its Coat

On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D. C. , and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a blinding snowstorm. Of the seventy-nine people on board, only six initially survived, clinging to the wreckage in twenty-nine-degree water. A U. S. Park Police helicopter arrived and began lowering a lifeline, but passenger Priscilla Tirado was too weak and hypothermic to hold on.…