Martin Leonard Skutnik III ( born 1953 in Mississippi , known as Lenny ) is a retired employee of the United States Congressional Budget Office who , on January 13 , 1982 , saved the life of Priscilla Tirado following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the frozen Potomac River , Washington , D.C . As passengers were being rescued , Tirado was too weak to take hold of the line dropped from a helicopter . Skutnikone of hundreds of bystandersdove into the icy water and brought her to the river bank
Air Florida Flight 90
Air Florida Flight 90
Lenny Skutnik