One of my best students was named Roger Petit. He was good enough to get an F-15 as his first flight assignment. He apparently left the AF after that and went commercial. I didn't hear anything about him until six years later.
Roger Petit was the copilot of Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982 when it took off from Washington National and immediately crashed into the Potomac River at the 14th St bridge. 78 people died. It was determined that due to iced-up engine probes, the engines never developed sufficient thrust for flight. All the crew would have had to do was push the throttles up. A classic case of knowing something was wrong and not flying the plane first and figure it out later.
