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  • 2022-08-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Does Photo Show Air Florida Flight 90 Crashing into Bridge? (en)
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  • In August 2022, we looked at a misleading ad on Yahoo titled, These Mistakes Had Catastrophic Consequences. The photograph next to the ad showed a large airplane crashing into a bridge. This same picture has been referenced before by other websites as purportedly showing the last moments of Air Florida Flight 90, an airliner that crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. in 1982, killing 78 people. The truth was that the image was a digital illustration created by an artist. We clicked the ad on Yahoo. It led to a story on Investing.com titled, 25+ of the Most Expensive Mistakes in History. The article lasted 185 pages and never mentioned the picture from the ad. A reverse image search on the handy website TinEye showed that the digital art was first published around the year 2009. According to BoredPanda.com, the illustration was created by a Canadian graphic designer named Steve McGhee. The website described McGhee's work as depicting catastrophic events such as planes crashing, cities destroyed by tsunamis, aliens invading, and other end-of-the-world scenarios. A different picture has also been passed around in the past with the claim that it, too, shows the crash of Air Florida Flight 90. However, this image was simply a screenshot from a digital animation video that appeared in a reenactment in the National Geographic documentary, Disaster on the Potomac: Air Florida Flight 90 went down on Jan. 13, 1982. The Washington Post chronicled the doomed airliner's brief journey on the 40th anniversary of the crash. After taking off during a snowstorm from Washington National Airport, the airplane slammed into the 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the Potomac River: In 2019, WUSA9 interviewed Joe Stiley, one of the five people onboard who survived the incident. He said that he initially blacked out after the crash, but was awakened by the icy water that began to fill the airplane: In sum, no, the image that showed an airplane crashing into a bridge did not show the 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90, nor was the picture even real. It was nothing more than a digital illustration created by a graphic designer. (en)
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