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</html>";s:4:"text";s:26983:"It turns out that the area I was flying over is the well-known stomping grounds for the crew of Eastern Airlines Flight 401: A plane that crashed in 1972 over the Everglades. Then wham! Thus, the switching to CWS in channel A possibly did not occur in channel B, thus depriving the first officer of any indication the mode had changed (channel A provides the captain's instruments with data, while channel B provides the first officer's). My mother never told me the flight attendant's name, but she did say that she had suffered a broken back in the crash. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. From Miami to New York, the ten women flight attendants in the crew flew on flight 26, a dinner flight. Afterward, folks hope to take the old man into the Everglades, in his own airboat, if he wants. If you would like to contribute to this cause, donations can be made to: National Air Disaster Foundation (write "EAL 401 Memorial" on the check), You may also make donations by credit card on their website: www.PlaneSafe.org. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. I probably did too, I'm sure." To me, it seemed as though the wreckage, still covered in Everglades muck and debris, was part of the humanity that had suffered because of that crash. [17] Over time, the reporting of ghost sightings stopped. Fourteen survivors had various degrees of burns. She worked only briefly as a flight attendant after the crash. OZY's Ghost Stories explore our fascination with the spirit realm. Please do not travel to the airport to make alternative arrangements as the airport staff are not able to assist with future date . It was a 'wide body' aircraft with two isles and a nose like a Dolphin. She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. He saw a man, sitting in the water with a neck injury, trying to remain upright. It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami Trail, about 100 yards east of the L-67 canal levee. Below: The Casado family tour the crash site. I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." Aircraft 310 was one of a dozen L-1011s Lockheed had delivered to Eastern Airlines that year, and it was one of the best of the bunch. It was at the time, the single worst air disaster in US history and its cause launched new pilot training and safety programs. The crash was featured in season five of the Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series Mayday, in a 2009 episode called "Fatal Distraction".[9]. He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. TIL after Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the Florida Everglades that the mud of the Everglades blocked wounds sustained by survivors, preventing them from bleeding to death. It had always worried her that if something should happen to them both, who would take care of her girls? He said, " remember the pact you wanted us to make about flying separately?" What happened next must have happened very quickly. One gave him money. [21] A television film, also titled The Ghost of Flight 401, aired on NBC in February 1978. At JFK they changed airplanes to work flight 401. Bud saw bodies strapped into seats upside down in the water. That was a godsend because I got to meet and befriend many of the club members, most of whom were successful small business owners enjoying the fruits of their labor by owning and operating private aircraft (something that is almost cost prohibitive in today's aviation, regulatory and business environments). He was a buyer for Gimbels. [5]: 27–29, A company employee—technical officer Angelo Donadeo, 47, returning to Miami from an assignment in New York—accompanied the flight crew for the journey, but was officially an off-duty, "nonrevenue passenger". Because it was the end of the month the crew would be breaking up soon. They claimed that the deceasedâs name was being used for the âcommercialâ purpose of selling books about the fatal crash (and a movie based on the book) by referring to the decedent as a âreappearing ghost.â The family lost the suit, and subsequent appeals. Both of whom were off duty airline employees who were "dead-heading" - airline slang for employees hitching a free ride to return from a duty assignment. [5]: 23 In this mode, once the pilot releases pressure on the yoke (control column or wheel), the autopilot maintains the pitch attitude selected by the pilot until he moves the yoke again. Culled from final reports issued by military and foreign government investigations, as well as additional research and resources, Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports tells the final and full tales of doomed flights that stopped the ... Flight 401's chain of problems began on the approach to Florida two hours after departure. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. [5]: 4 The engineer (Repo) had gone below, and no indication was heard of the pilots' voices recorded on the CVR that they heard the chime. [5]: 4 For the next 80 seconds, the plane maintained level flight. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a regularly scheduled flight that connected the Big Apple's JFK airport with Miami's wild beach soaked riviera. The following conversation was recovered from the flight voice recorder later: Less than 10 seconds after this exchange, the jetliner crashed: The location was west-northwest of Miami, 18.7 mi (30.1 km) from the end of runway 9L. On December 29, 1972 an Eastern Air Lines' Lockheed L-1011, as Flight 401 on its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, crashed at 2342 eastern standard time in the ... Jan 6, 2014 - Explore Our Haunted Travels - PANICd's board "Eastern Flight 401", followed by 1,236 people on Pinterest. The Lockheed TriStar L 1011 aircraft was well ahead of its time. Like a lot of other aspiring commercial pilots, I had had a checkered aviation career, having worked, among other things, as the full-time chief pilot of a regional oil company while attending college. [5]: 3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. Bud revved up the engine and headed northwest. Incongruously, not far from the roofless fuselage center section with the inner portion of the starboard wing still attached, lay a large, undamaged and fully inflated rubber dinghy, one of a number carried on the TriStar in the event of an emergency water landing. Photos: AL DIAZ | MIAMI HERALD. "That wasn't my first brush with death," he said. It was closing in on midnight on Dec. 29, 1972. [8], In all, 75 survived the crash—67 of the 163 passengers and eight of the 10 flight attendants. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. My direct and indirect contact with Eastern Flight 401 didn't end on December 30, 1972. Gas gangrene attacked his lungs. "He swore that Frank Borman had paid him to come to Miami and perform an exorcism on #318. the pilot asked at the last second. Flight 401 was referenced in season one of Supernatural, episode four: "Phantom Traveler", which aired on October 4, 2005. That days trip was known as a "stuffer," a quick turnaround, Miami to New York and back to Miami. More significantly, it would turn out, was the fact that there hadn't been any entries in the logs for the past sixty days complaining of trouble with the landing gear. After we visually established where the crash site was located, we could see the initial ground contact point and the distribution of the wreckage quite clearly. It was more accurately a "tie-down"club; the members owned their aircraft and joined the club to be able to tie-down their aircraft at reasonable costs and have access to a ramp area where they could perform routine maintenance on their planes. But he and his helper had 30 pounds of legs. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed in 1972. Nobody, not the pilots nor passengers, knew anything was amiss. An interesting side show to the crash of Flight 401 was documented in the 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401, by John G. Fuller. My log book shows that our flight lasted 1.2 hours. He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Donna; son, John (Jan) Angelo; daughters, Susan (Bob) Norberg, Patricia (Rick) Shepherd; and nine grandchildren. They didn't keep score, but Marquis knows they saved a lot of people's lives that night. [4] It was also the first hull loss and first fatal crash of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. His 1977 book, Crash, tells the story of many of the passengers, the investigation and aftermath of Flight 401. They even made cheesy movie about it. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades,[1][2][3] causing 101 fatalities. Although he was a passenger, he rode in the cockpit with pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer. On December 3rd 2007, survivors of Eastern Air Lines flight 401 gathered at the Metro-Dade Firefighters' Memorial Building in Miami to honor Robert "Bud" Marquis, and to remember those who lost their lives in the crash nearly 35 years ago. His goal in life, he would say later, was "to be successful financially and live a nice, easy, comfortable life." [16], While Eastern Air Lines publicly denied their planes were haunted, they reportedly removed all the salvaged parts from their L-1011 fleet. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. Eastern Air Lines is the rebrand of the American . The December 29th 1972 Crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Lockheed L-1011 N310EA (s/n 1011) This Blogspot is dedicated to the those who died, those who survived and the countless of lives that were touched and effected even to this day by the crash of Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011-1, aircraft N310EA, while operating as flight 401 from (JFK . She had been replaced by another Eastern flight attendant, Sharon Transue. With the engine dangerously wide open - the boat slipped over the grass at 35 mph - he maneuvered around all obstacles. His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. I guess their clothes got blown off them.". Eastern Flight 401: A survivor's story. On flight 401, an unexpected factor made it seem even larger than it was. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 N310EA, the aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in St. Louis just weeks before the crash Accident summary [12][13] The training is designed to make problem solving in a cockpit much more efficient, thus causing less distraction for the crew. The story of the crash and its aftermath were documented in John G. Fuller's 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401. In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. Bud waved his light until the helicopter took notice. "This is going to be our last trip together," a black-haired stewardess, Mercedes Ruiz, told the others. Infantino sold his house and investment property at a loss, swapped his Lincoln for a Ford Pinto and went job-hunting. I saw young couples broken up. When the flight-crew lowered the landing gear, they did not receive confirmation that the nose wheel was down and locked. [14], Over the following months and years, stories began circulating that employees of Eastern Air Lines, and numerous passengers, had reported sightings of the dead crew members, captain Robert Loft and second officer (flight engineer) Donald Repo, sitting on board other L-1011s (including, in particular, N318EA). His wife said his ashes would be spread over the crash site in the Everglades that ''he loved so much,'' at a later date. He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa. Outside, the OFF lights blinked out, warning the ground crew that the airplane was about to come to life. [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. In fact, there would be 160 on board. Describes the mysterious happenings surrounding the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, which happened in 1972. The airplane operated on a flight from New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK) to Miami International Airport, FL (MIA). The white jet inched upward toward a night of stars. Captain Loft was found during the autopsy to have an undetected brain tumor, in an area that controls vision. Her name was Evelyn de Salazaar. His right arm was badly hurt. At the time our story takes place the Tristar Jet (Lockheed L-1011) was a mere four months old in December 1972 and the height of commercial aviation. Video Courtesy: FAA via Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidentshttp://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=8Eastern Airlines Flight 401 cr. "It was funny. The bent, white-haired man in the mirror has a bad heart and breathes from an oxygen machine, hasn't been frogging in a coon's age, and hasn't been in his airboat since, well, he can't remember. "The temperature is in the low 70s, and it's beautiful out there tonight." He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. "There are is so much friction, so many arguments. In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. An account of Eastern Airline's history and of the personalities who shaped it, from its early years led by Eddie Rickenbacker, to the present leadership of Frank Borman. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. The . [22] Eastern considered suing for libel, based on assertions of a cover-up by Eastern executives, but Borman opted not to, feeling a lawsuit would merely provide more publicity for the book. An expose of the airline industry covers such events as the rise of Southwest Airlines, Pan Am's attempt to take over National, and the battle between British Airways and Virgin Air 29 December 1972: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was en route from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, to Miami International Airport (MIA), Florida, with a crew of 13 and 163 passengers. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. Repo turned on the fuel pump. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. INVESTIGATION 1. On the back of an envelope he wrote the following letter to Samuel L. Higginbottom, who was then the president and COO of Eastern Airlines. This all-new collection of frightening stories will send a chill up and spine! Several survivors tracked him down to thank him personally. At night, when he sits on his porch, he can hear the wup-wup bellows of the pig frogs and the heh-heh-heh chatter of the leopard frogs beyond the trees. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. This flight had been booked solid. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. The mud of the Everglades may have blocked wounds sustained by survivors, preventing them from bleeding to death. He cranked up the engine and moved toward the sound. Eight passengers became infected; doctors used hyperbaric chambers to treat the infections. Lilly's sister, Kathy, would later explain that Ron and Lilly originally selected another flight but later changed it to flight 401. [6]: 108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. The pilots and the flight engineer, two of 10 flight attendants, and 96 of 163 passengers died; 75 passengers and crew survived. Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? The crash was a result of the flight crew's failure to recognize a deactivation of the autopilot during their attempt to troubleshoot a malfunction of the landing gear . It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. A similar situation appeared in the Thai film Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. Forty-five years ago, when Officer Gray Leonhard of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission began a solo night patrol in the Everglades, he was on the lookout for poachers, drug smugglers and maybe even a bullet-riddled corpse. There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. I don't pretend to understand why it happens. Anyway, the statute of limitations has long since passed. [5]: 4 In the next 70 seconds, the plane lost only 250 ft (76 m), but this was enough to trigger the altitude warning C-chord chime located under the engineer's workstation. He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. [26], An episode explaining the events was released by Bizzare Podcast (May 2020, The Ghosts of Flight 401, Haunted Airlines). The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. That was an unsurvivable crash, but we made it out," she said. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. 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