I think that was the Greaseman wasn't it?
No, that was Stern, right after the Air Florida 90 crash in 1982. He called them and asked for the price of a one-way ticket from Washington National to the Fourteenth Street Bridge (which the plane clipped before crashing into the Potomac).
Greaseman got fired after making the comment, on Martin Luther King Day, "if they shoot four more, do we get a week off?"
Ironically, both of them worked for the same station, WWDC (DC 101)--Greaseman was Stern's replacement, but Stern came back on DC on WJFK a few years later (I think DC was the third market his show syndicated in) and got into a heavy ratings war with the Greaseman. The guy on DC 101 now, "Elliot in the Morning," is a not-very-talented Stern wannabee that they also simulcast on WXRL down here in Richmond.
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Don't know who the "Greaseman" is,but I've read that Stern was at a DC station when that Air Florida flight from Dulles Airport crashed into a bridge over the Potomac about a minute after takeoff.
The day after the crash,Stern is said to have called Air Florida reservations...WHILE ON THE AIR...and asked the reservations clerk how much they charged for a flight from Dulles to the 19th Street Bridge.
If this is true,that act...all by itself...makes Stern about the filthiest punk walking this earth,IMO.
Yes, that was the infamous "Greaseman's" comment!