This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. After the crash, Bert Hamilton moved to. Seventy-four people on the plane, including three babies, died, as did four people killed in their cars. A sixth person, possibly Atlanta bank examiner Arland Williams, also was seen in the water, but later disappeared from view. She presides over the chaos with an amused grace. The Air Florida plane crashed because of a series of foolish mistakes -- undo one and the plane soars over the bridge and everyone lives. His ribs were breaking. ''I was overwhelmed with the fact there was nothing you could do,'' he recalls. Bert Hamilton died of a heart attack and Patricia Felch, Stiley's former administrative assistant, died of pancreatic cancer, just 2 weeks after Hamilton's death. Priscilla Tirado, 43, was rescued by Lenny Skutnik. She pops it into the VCR, and there she is in the water, pieces of ice as big as doors bobbing around her. She has a smoke-cured voice and her father's soft, rounded features, his curly salt-and-pepper hair. ''It just really was like God reached out and grabbed onto me.'' Please accept Echovita's sincere condolences. But she wants to tell this one. Help tell the story of your loved ones unique life. There were no cameras as Olian plunged into the water. Moore, who returned to her flight attendant job six months after the crash, left it 18 months later. ''I loved the idea of raising butterflies and having kids in the jungle,'' she says. I said, 'If it wasn't safe, I wouldn't be here.''' Kelly Duncan Moore lived because she was obeying regulations. I lost what I thought were friendships once I realized I was worth more as a banker than as a friend to some people.. Boarding the flight, he noticed a variety of folks heading to the warmer climate. He saw the tail of a full-size jet; the rest was gone. ''We saw the heroism of one of our young government employees, Lenny Skutnik, who, when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety.'' Now all of a sudden, I'm in a frozen river surrounded by shreds of yellow insulation that had been part of the aircraft moments before, he recalled. See if you can make some money. A sixth person initially survived the crash but, according to U.S. Park Police helicopter rescuers, refused their lifeline, indicating it should go to the others. Send a note, share a story or upload a photo. Example video title will go here for this video. At one point, two ropes came down for Stiley and Felch. Both Stiley and Duncan joined ABCNEWS' Good Morning America today for a look back at their amazing survival, against all odds. I can't help it," Tirado was quoted as saying at the time. Two barges are used to hold the debris. He drowned before emergency responders could go back for him. WTOP.com | Alexa | Google Home | WTOP App | 103.5 FM. She declined to be interviewed for this story. Olian, of Arlington, whose rescue attempts gave survivors hope before the helicopter arrived, said he "got a lot of satisfaction just to do it.". He still lives in the same suburban Virginia town house with the same wife that he returned to late the night of the crash -- although the infant son they had then now attends George Washington University on a baseball scholarship. She was left the $500,000 settlement from the crash. She works as a receptionist. Florida, son Dr. Miguel A. Tirado (wife Elise Morro-Tirado) of Staten Island, New York and grandchildren Giovanna LoPresti, Alec Tirado, Jaclyn Tirado, Courtney Tirado and Ashley Tirado. "This was the first time I've been arrested, and I was scared to death," said Tirado, who in 1983 settled three negligence suits against the airline for $3.25 million. The new life they'd been granted when they were pulled from the Potomac lasted exactly 20 years. Our hearts are with the Tirado family. Keefer said his sister found his daughter in critical condition at the National Orthopedic ad Rehabilitation Hospital in Arlington, Va. A letter from Williams's mother, Virginia, to Reagan, asking that her son be named as the hero, prompted a Coast Guard investigation. Priscilla was born a twin on September 4, 1935 in Manhattan, New York to Esther Osorio-Lopez and Antonio Lopez. In spite of their painful memories, most of the survivors still fly. The plane vibrated violently as it failed to gain much speed or altitude. The fiance opens the envelope and pulls out the wings, their colors still vivid, and a copy of the photo of herself, young and smiling, she gave him that morning. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz), A salvage worker holds a piece of debris recovered from the wreckage of an Air Florida jetliner in Washington, Jan. 16, 1982, as salvage work continued. Please accept Echovita's sincere condolences. Patrick was 19. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Stiley suffered hypothermia, a broken arm, leg, a skull fracture, broken jaw and spinal injuries. ''Immeasurable,'' is how Harvard's E.O. Lenny Skutnik, a Capitol Hill errand-runner, pulled off his cowboy boots, dove in, swam to survivor Priscilla Tirado and tugged her back to the shore. While living in Florida, Felch was drawn to a program for children who have the AIDS virus. They towed me in and all these big chunks of ice and I kept getting it in the chest, he recalled. Then there is a helicopter and a rope and she grabs it and she comes out of the water, barefoot, her stockings shredded, her apron flying in the wind. Twenty years ago, Air Florida Flight 90, on its way from Washington National Airport to Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, crashed seconds after takeoff, its wings frosted with snow and ice. Family and friends can send flowers and/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. As the Boeing 737 hit the 14th Street Bridge, it sheared the tops off cars stuck in a traffic jam caused by the storm. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/magazine/afterward.html. Forty years later, one of the people involved in WTOPs coverage that day reflects on how the technology of news gathering has changed. He realized he was alive as was his coworker, but his feet were trapped and he was still buckled in. No trees for branches. Another man, Lenny Skutnik, jumped in to help her to shore. He was a pilot himself and trained students to fly in and out of what was then known as National Airport. Sometimes I have my days," she said. "I have relived that 34 minutes in the water many times," said Stiley, 52, a telecommunications consultant who now lives in Spokane, Wash. "There is a distinct emotional effect that is permanent, and that I'm not professionally prepared to describe. They got in her car and on the way, in the snow, she skidded and hit the curb. Echovita Inc is a registered trademark. But there is some bitterness, too, about what came after. He wrought his feet free from the crushed metal, then helped Felch. He was tasked with the unfortunate duty of announcing layoffs and was not thrilled to be leaving town. It filed for bankruptcy and grounded its fleet in July 1984. On the fifth anniversary of the crash, Tirado was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of drugs. "The adrenaline was flowing," he recalled. Joe Stiley told ABCNEWS in 1982, that the freezing water jarred him into consciousness. Kelly Moore became a devout Christian. They each even had two moles in the same place on their faces. She was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of crack, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to Pinellas County jail records. On Jan. 13, 1982, she was flying to Florida with her new family so her husband could take a job in the construction industry. They were not going fast enough. ''All you have in common is this day you want to forget.'' applies to those who continue to struggle long after a loss. The fifth survivor, Tirado, 32, was screaming "my baby, my baby" while thrashing in the icy Potomac, recalled Felch, who was by her side. The couple welcomed three children into their home. The tail of the Air Florida jet that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is hoisted from the water by a crane, Jan. 18, 1982, during salvage efforts. She smokes a cigarette and considers, then adds, ''I'll admit, she lost a pretty good son.''. When the plane went down he was in the middle of a divorce, and he went back to his parents' home to recover. But the chronic pain from his injuries stays with him, as well as the terrible memory. Additionally, there were four fatalities of commuters whose cars were crushed by the plane 's landing gear as it skimmed the top of the bridge. Death 13 Jan 1982 (aged 24) Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA. In a dusty glass-fronted case on the piano bench, Skutnik keeps the palm-size Carnegie Medal for heroism and the Coast Guard's Gold Lifesaving Medal. Their courtship was brief, intense, magical. Felch, who recently moved back to the area after divorcing a man she married less than a year after the crash, is job hunting. ''To get his advice, his perspective on things, on some choices I'm going to have to make at work.'' The anniversary always brings an extra emotional wrench to their lives, survivors said. Another survivor, Priscilla Tirado, moved to Florida and has been reluctant to talk about the crash. They invited her to visit and she went, staying in the bedroom that used to be his, looking through his things. Keefer said he was sponsor on his son-in-law's immigration visa. From the bridge, people tried to drop ropes down to help the survivors. WUSA9 is now on Roku and Amazon Fire TVs. (5 years old). The crash led to reforms in pilot-training regulations. A young office assistant for a government agency, Lenny Skutnik, briefly became world-famous when he dove into the river and, on national television, saved a woman who was about to drown. That hotel phone was my lifeline to the WTOP newsroom.. 'He was so proud. Anthony Ivener, now a 37-year-old partner in an accounting firm, was 16 when his father, Arnold Ivener, 46, a civilian engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers, was killed. This spring, in a strange coincidence, two of the five survivors died of natural causes. CANDLE HAS BEEN LIT CANDLES HAVE BEEN LIT, We are reviewing your submission. According to an NTSB report, several factors contributed to the Air Florida crash of 1982. But there was no accident, and he made his flight. Priscilla Tirado (ne Lopez) died peacefully at home on September 12, 2022 in Coral Springs, FL at the age of 87. The coroner found that only one victim of the crash died of drowning, not trauma. Memorial Park Funeral Homes & Cemeteries South - Flowery Branch | 4121 Falcon Pkwy | Flowery Branch, GA 30542 | Tel: 1-770-967-5555 | info@mempark.net The cable network provided live images of survivors struggling in the water as viewers at home watched and waited for what they knew would be a devastating death toll. "I didn't want to hang around home. Download the apps today for live newscasts and video on demand. 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. The Polish Police Association honored him, and so did the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Like WTOP on Facebook and follow WTOP on Twitter and Instagram to engage in conversation about this article and others. Most say they likely will never fully recover, though some have coped better than others. Copyright 2023 Echovita Inc. All rights reserved. He now lives in Washington State and describes himself as ''a semi-recluse with a lot of infirmities.''. . She was charged with driving. He stopped at the Twin Bridges Marriott, located near the 14th Street Bridge. Moore said she overcame a long-term feeling of guilt for having survived while others died. A visitation for Priscilla will be held Saturday, September 24, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Kraeer Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 1655 University Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33071, Prayers will be said from 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM. They were oblivious to the world that day, so when it was time for him to go to the airport in the afternoon, they were surprised by how much snow had fallen. His father, William Zondler, a communications executive, died at age 44 while traveling on business. . She felt guilty that she wasn't nicer to the passengers. His mother took care of him while he recovered, carefully re-wrapping his bandages as he struggled to regain his strength. ''A hero seems something to be bought and sold,'' he says, citing the marketing of police and fireman dolls since Sept. 11. Other survivors remember hearing her scream for someone to find her baby as they all bobbed in the water. Accompanied by their two-month-old son, they were en route to Tampa where Tirado was to go to work in the import-export company run by Mrs. Tirado's father. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.kraeercoralsprings.com for the TIRADO family. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.kraeercoralsprings.com for the TIRADO family. When she got sick, she moved into her mother's home in Virginia so that her mother could care for her at the end. Her parents and brother are buried together not far from her small garden apartment in Boca Raton, Fla., but when it's her turn, she won't join them. She was an entomologist herself, at the Smithsonian in Washington, where they met. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. Skutnik retired from the CBO in 2010, and now lives in a senior community in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he spends his time. She became a "volunteer hugger . ''I used to try to keep in touch, then I realized we're all strangers,'' Moore says. The California Death Records Search links below open in a new window and take you to third party websites that provide access to CA During his long convalescence, Stiley reexamined his life goals and forged much closer bonds with his parents, who for a year and a half nursed him at their home in Idaho. The Boeing 737 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge, shearing off the tops of cars, and then crashed into the icy river. OBITUARY Luis A. Tirado October 2, 1934 - July 2, 2018. He turned it down, the movie was made and they used his story anyway. They set throttle power too low because they had failed to turn on an engine-warming device. WASHINGTON It was snowing when Joe Stiley woke up on the fateful morning of Jan. 13, 1982. Skutnik, a retired U.S. government employment, dove into the icy water, saving the life of Priscilla Tirado. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Reuben Tirado of Toms River, New Jersey, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, who passed away at the age of 92, on March 7, 2022. He later saw the rescue on a late night television news program. In the bin is a video of her rescue. But it never did, and in all the years since, she says, ''God has been faithful.''. It took a few moments for the plane to sink to the murky bottom of the river, and Stiley awoke to icy water splashing him. '', The other side is that the trauma to his neck and spine left him with bone spurs that caused chronic pain and forced him to give up an executive career of constant travel. In her kitchen is a precise pen-and-ink drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly Robert made at age 12. There were no cellphones in those days, I had to find a way to communicate, recalled Statter. Slowly, she fell in love. However, given the prevalence of people documenting their lives and experiences, at times becoming viral videos, Statter said that leaves him with a question: Would people be so focused on getting those images, and so detached, that we wouldnt have a Lenny Skutnik or Roger Olian, jumping in the river, trying to save those passengers?. The survivors received substantial, undisclosed settlements, as did the families of the 74 who perished on the plane and the four motorists who died. Matt Schudel Matt Schudel has been an obituary . . The Air Florida crash had a profound impact on the aviation industry. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz), A scuba diver gets ready to dive off a barge in the Potomac River in Washington, Jan. 15, 1982, for pertinent articles from the Air Florida jetliner that crashed into the river two days ago. Nevertheless, "Life has so much more meaning now. She graduated from high school in 1954. A woman sent to visit her in the hospital, who had also survived a crash, told her that such sudden religious feeling is common and would pass. Here are some ways to offer your support to someone grieving. Seventy-eight people died in the crash. 'He couldn't comprehend that fact that here he was a foreigner who's only been here a month and already he was at the vice president's house,' Keefer said. ''There's a tenacity the dead have on the living that no living person has on you,'' she says. She laughs when she compares their lost plans with her real life: ''I drive a station wagon and live in the suburbs.''. I took a cold dip in a frozen river once and that was enough cold for me, he said dryly. It was his sons 13th birthday. He was building a cement sidewalk at George Bush's house.'. She comes to lunch holding a frayed manila envelope she usually keeps hidden in the basement. Receive obituaries from the city or cities of your choice. In it, with a meticulousness the son would have admired, the father took care of the paperwork that goes into legally ending a life. Statter went on to a long broadcast news career, at WTOP and WUSA-TV. Priscilla is survived by daughter Esther Tirado-LoPresti (husband Robert LoPresti) of Coral Springs. Roger Olian and Lenny Skutnik, who were watching from the Virginia shore, braved death by hypothermia to try to save lives. The weekend before the crash, she says, turned out to be the final weekend of her old life. For the five survivors of Air Florida's crash into the 14th Street bridge and plunge into the icy Potomac River 10 years ago, the healing of shattered bodies is nearly done. There is a key to the city of Alexandria, Va., and one to Columbia, Miss., where he once lived. His cataloging skills are evident: each cassette, each song, labeled, numbered and timed, with a cross-reference in a loose-leaf notebook. Olian couldn't quite reach the floundering survivors, but when Tirado fell limply from a U.S. Park Police helicopter lifeline and went underwater, Skutnik, of Lorton, swam to her rescue. Well, they'll do it anyway, no matter how you feel.'' The pain of what happened hurts less and less, to be replaced by the realization of what will never be. Ivener makes a sound of air rushing past, of time rushing by. It was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport in 1998, many pilots have said it is a hassle to get in and out of. Information from the flight recorder showed that the craft failed to gain adequate acceleration as it took off and never rose more than 337 feet. A visitation for Vanity will be held Sunday, April 17, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Hillsboro Memorial Funeral Home, 2323 West Brandon Blvd., Brandon . According to the affidavits, she said she had been drinking and smoking marijuana and crack, a potent form of cocaine. (AP Photo), A truck hangs over the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, Jan. 14, 1982 after being hit by an Air Florida jetliner which then went into the Potomac River. Im fortunate that I was there to do something [but] what kind of fortune is that?. This past spring, two of the five survivors died of natural causes. This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. Immediately after the crash, she said, "no one wanted to hire me back" because of concerns that she was physically and emotionally impaired. Over the decades, say family members who lost someone on Flight 90, the anger -- at the pilots, at the airline, at fate, at God -- dissipates. Echovita offers a solidarity program that gives back the funds generated to families. She mostly talked about what had happened, and her date -- he worked in real estate, not science -- was a good listener. Name: Priscilla Tirado, Phone number: (609) 296-2738, State: NJ, City: Little Egg Harbor Twp, Zip Code: 08087 and more information. "Next time I'm going to do it at home. "I had a good life with Jose. The 14th Street Bridge that the plane hit while taking off from National Airport is pictured in background. Flight 90 never got higher than a few hundred feet, and the pilots saw the crash coming. No one from the front of the plane survived. He knew he had to fly to Florida for work that day. The other two survivors are no longer living. Flight attendant Kelly Duncan, the only crew members to survive, said the crash seemed unreal. All rights reserved. Here is Vanity Priscilla Cabrera-Tirado's obituary. It was a snowy afternoon in 1982 when a plane taking off stalled mid-air during and began hurtling towards the Potomac. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Vanity Priscilla Cabrera-Tirado to show support. "This is always a bad day. Motorists stuck in traffic on the bridge and millions of others watching network newscasts looked on, horrified, as the few who survived the 737's initial plunge into the river struggled amid wreckage and ice for an agonizingly long half-hour. After three years, that faded. . ''I had his jowls, too, but I had them cut off,'' she offers. ''I thought that was pretty nice, that he wasn't a snob,'' Joan says, and begins to cry. ", Tirado "is doing very well" under the circumstances, her father said. will never be normal again," said Hamilton, 51, of Melbourne Beach, Fla. Finally a helicopter appeared, and the people on the bank pulled Olian back to shore. She died in April of Alzheimer's disease; the family say they believe the trauma of Benson's death triggered her decline. Company executives filed for bankruptcy in 1984. Nevertheless, Hamilton said, "You can't let fear overtake you.". Of the 79 passengers and crew on board the airplane, 74 died. Moore didn't have any idea the plane was about to crash. They were almost comically made for each other. In his eighties, Joe Stiley now lives in a remote part of Mexico called Puerto Escondido. His wife, Barbara, recalls the agony of the memorial service for her husband's dead colleagues, and how the two of them grieved for the widows and children left behind. His father, Jos, also perished in the crash. When the plane took off, she was Kelly Duncan, 22, looking like a teenager with her braces and bangs. She felt guilty that she was alive. 2023 SCI SHARED RESOURCES, LLC. The importance of saying "I love you" during COVID-19, Effective ways of dealing with the grieving process, Solutions to show your sympathy safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. She married Luis Angel Tirado, United States Air Force Staff Sergeant in 1959. "She tends to keep to herself.". Reuben Tirado, 92 of Toms River, NJ, went home to be with his Lord on Monday, March 7, 2022. He was real good for me.". There was something unexpectedly painful about the experience of being spared when so many died. The man in the left background of the photo holds an electronic sounding device used to locate the recorders. By 10 p.m., he'd never play football again. On the morning of Jan. 13, 1982, Silberglied asked her to marry him, and she said yes. It was a catastrophe in which many lost their lives and a few survived only to return to lives forever altered. A sixth victim, later identified by the U.S. Coast Guard as Arland D. Williams Jr., refused help so the others be rescued from the icy river. (AP Photo) And, within a half-hour of the plane plunging into the frozen Potomac River, a Metro Orange Line train derailed. Stiley said he isn't bitter about the crash. At 5:15 a.m. this Jan. 13, sheriff's deputies stopped Tirado's 1986 Corvette convertible after noticing her speeding and switching lanes, arrest affidavits state. He was headed from Washington to Panama for research, but first he was going to stop in Florida to tell his parents the news of his engagement. The two critical on-board recorders may provide clues to last weeks crash. How lovely it would have been for you to know my father. The derailment killed three people and inured 25. The plane was not properly de-iced during the snowstorm that blanketed Washington D.C. in a reported 6.4 inches of snow. "It's still hard for me. He was the sixth person who survived the crash, a middle-aged man who, according to the United States Park Police helicopter rescuers, refused their lifeline, indicating that it should go to the others. (AP Photo), A member of the search team carries a brief case through the snow from the Potomac River, the site of the Air Florida jetliner, in Washington, Jan. 15, 1982. ''We think we control things we don't,'' she says. In the water were the handful of survivors screaming for help. p0725 allison Priscilla Tirado, now 43, survived the crash, but lost her 2-month-old son and husband in the crash. Please contact George Molnar at publicfiledc@hubbardradio.com or (202) 895-5120. He looked at his daughter and thought: You're 7 years old. With a sickening sound that witnesses likened to a pane of glass shattering, the burning aircraft hit the river, broke apart and began to sink. Shortly before her death, in a delicate, tiny voice, she spoke of the painful chemotherapy and radical surgery she had undergone and the hopes she still had that the treatment would save her. "I don't anymore.". Donate blood in DC area, get a free coffee and a breakfast wrap from Dunkin, Metro to enhance operator training, citing investigation into error, Jury mostly backs Va. police sued by soldier over a traffic stop, Va. Senate Democrats kill effort to repeal electric car rule, Husband of missing Massachusetts woman with DC ties faces murder charge. "I really feel that my life has been blessed.". There is no photo or video of Vanity Priscilla Cabrera-Tirado.Be the first to share a memory to pay tribute. ''If I had hit a car it would have been an accident and we wouldn't have gotten to the airport,'' she says. The flight had taken off from what was then know simply as National Airport. Hillsboro Memorial Funeral Home 2323 W Brandon Blvd, Brandon, FL 33511. But for years after the crash, thoughts of him still smoldered in her head like an underground fire. Also killed in the crash were Priscilla Tirado 's husband and infant son. 'After he had been here a month Jose called me,' Keefer recalled today. Arland Williams, 46, was the only victim of the crash who died of drowning, not trauma. (''It doesn't open anything,'' he says.) Horrific crash that forever changed air transit marks 30th anniv. At that point Skutnik, looking abashed in the visitors' gallery, stands. Priscilla, daughter and son-in-law, Esther Tirado LoPresti and Robert LoPresti, son and daughter-in-law, Miguel Tirado MD and Elise Tirado, son-in-law, Thomas Farmer, grandchildren, Giovanna LoPresti, Alec Tirado, Jaclyn Tirado . He runs a small bed and breakfast and spends his days relaxing at the beach. (AP Photo), Divers remove the flight recorders, that were aboard the ill-fated Air Florida jetliner that crashed in the Potomac River in Washington on last Wednesday from the water in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1982. The family members of those killed say, too, that there is no blueprint for the grief one faces after such a sudden, public loss. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz), Salvage personal start to examine the tail section of the Air Florida jetliner after it was removed from the Potomac River in Washington on Monday, Jan. 18, 1982. He was offered about $1,500 for the rights to his story for a cheesy television movie called ''Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac.'' Mrs. Tirado was saved in a nationally televised rescue. Staff researcher Bridget Roeber contributed to this report. Help tell the story of your loved ones unique life. That's where she stores what's left of the life she didn't get to live. Surviving the crash also sent him into an uncharacteristic depression. Reuben Tirado, 92 of Toms River, NJ, went home to be with his Lord on Monday, March 7, 2022. Statter made his way through the Pentagon City streets, trying to confirm the information, and provide it to WTOP. 4 September, 1935 - 12 September, 2022 IN THE CARE OF Kraeer Funeral Home & Cremation Center Priscilla TIRADO, age 87, of Coral Springs, Florida passed away on Monday, September 12, 2022. Spectators lined the bridge and riverbank but were unable to help. Around home crushed metal, then adds, `` you ca n't let fear overtake you..... 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