Indeed, they said, some . After dark he moonlighted as a commercial frogger. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | As I sit writing this 34 years later in December 2006, I can still visualize the events of that night just as if they had occurred yesterday. Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 [5]:5. Folks from South Florida's sporting community, mostly hunters, fishers and airboaters, heard, many for the first time, about Bud. Tower, this is Eastern 401, it looks like were going to have to circle. [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. Well launch from there.. The ultimate "yes sir, no sir" man, Bud shuffles reluctantly onto the porch, blinking furiously in the sunlight, wondering what's up. Were still at 2,000, right? the first officer asked. Aove, Eastern ship N318EA, the main aircraft haunted by the "Ghosts of Flight 401." Flipping through the pages, Bud smiles for the first time in hours. That's why Hansel wanted me to fly; it would be my license that got revoked if we got caught, not his! The powers-that-be want them to . The approach controller cleared the flight to climb to 2,000ft (610m), and then hold west over the Everglades. Contained Within. He had a broken arm and some cuts and scrapes, but no other visible wounds, Leonhard said. He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. Hansel Meighen died on April 15, 1999, and is buried in Ft. Pierce, Florida. What songs will we sing? one passenger asked. Two minutes later, Flight 401 called the air traffic control tower. The Miami News, Dec. 30, 1972. Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. [6], The flight was commanded by Captain Robert Albin (Bob) Loft, age 55, a veteran pilot ranked 50th in seniority at Eastern Air Lines. It looked like someone had poured gasoline on a campfire, and poof, up it went. Curiously, Leonhard never heard the impact. Her face burned from the jet fuel. He'd stay calm, look at the stars for direction, think things through, then crank up the airboat engine and find his way back to the Tamiami Trail. Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others. The crew members, however, were focused on fixing the wheel-light indicator. Some would rather not remember. Silence. Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived. [6]:107108 Donadeo, the lone survivor of the four flight-deck occupants, recovered from his injuries. MIAMI - Thursday marks 50 years since Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades. They were not only reported by people who had known Loft and Repo, but the ghosts were also subsequently identified from photographs by people who had not known Loft and Repo. That was an unsurvivable crash, but we made it out," she said. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. Copyright 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. About 490 feet (150m) from the wingtip's initial contact with the ground, the massive fuselage had begun to break up, scattering components from the underfloor galley, the cargo compartments, and the cabin interior. Darrylle Becker 3/16/43 Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. All photos by Southern Airboat, who coordinated the event. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. The point of this entire story is to simply tell you that yes - planes can be haunted. On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Flight 401 from New York to Miami took off from JFK Airport at 9:20 pm. Bill was a career police officer who had been exposed to death and trauma, but his comments really reflected an attitude of both wonder and sadness. Anyway, the pilots couldn't tell if the wheels were down. I'm pretty sure that Tom Roche and Bob Crews were two of the "lucky" ones that got aboard, but I couldn't swear to it now. He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to a hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. They didn't keep score, but Marquis knows they saved a lot of people's lives that night. There was a lot of activity on the ground, but we couldn't see much detail from 3,000 feet. Airline employees began spreading stories of apparitions to the point where Eastern management warned employees that they could face dismissal if caught, and any log book entries about such matters would be removed. There was an enormous flash of flame as two fuel tanks burst open. Dead bodies hung, lay and floated everywhere I looked. Blackness. [6]:102,108 Stockstill was killed on impact, while Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck before he could be transported to a hospital. The crash was documented in Rob and Sarah Elder's 1977 book Crash. The time was 9:20 p.m. Born in Arkansas, he grew up in South Florida when everybody seemed to be poor. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | Pin. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. John G. Fuller, the best-selling author of The Ghost of Flight 401, carried out an investigation into the hauntings with the aid of several cautious airline personnel. Adapted from Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases by Bob H. Lee. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". [5]:6[a], The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation discovered that the autopilot had been inadvertently switched from altitude hold to control wheel steering (CWS) mode in pitch. Telephone number:0208 846 0502 . With the aircraft in mid-turn, the left wingtip hit the surface first, then the left engine and the left landing gear,[5]:8 making three trails through the sawgrass, each 5ft (1.5m) wide and more than 100ft (30m) long. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 2 | Below is a list of those on board, according . Rowdy fans of Notre Dame and University of Nebraska, scheduled to play on New Year's Day at the Orange Bowl, were poised to take over the town. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. Rons eyes blinked open upon hearing the engines roar to full power. His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. He felt a sense of mission as he looked out into the black swamp, knowing that his job required cunning and stealth. As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. She put in 11 more years with United before retiring. NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. [26], Flight 401 is mentioned in the TV show Supernatural Season 1 Episode 4 named Phantom Traveler's. That doesn't haunt me either . Two survivors died later as a result of . In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. No gunshots. I don't question what the Lord does.". To those who survived, the scene must have had an eerie end-of-the-earth feel, with wisps of gray mist swirling, a baby wailing, the groans from the injured and the dying. Robert Loft, 55; First Officer Albert Stockstill, 39, and Second Officer Donald Repo, 51, all of Miami-Dade. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. North Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 7, 2007 On Monday, December 3, 2007 survivors of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, gathered at the Metro-Dade Firefighters Memorial Building, in Doral (Miami), Florida, to remember the 101 passengers and crew, who lost their lives in the fateful crash of a Lockheed L-1011, jumbo-jet in the Florida Everglades, December 29, 1972, while en route from New York to . The aircraft was destroyed. My former brother-in-law, James Anderson, was an avid air boat owner and hunting enthusiast. Thats what youre going to get when we get out of here. 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. My mother never told me the flight attendant's name, but she did say that she had suffered a broken back in the crash. . Leonhard discovered a hole in the bushes, roughly circular in shape and a little larger than the mouth of a culvert pipe. The accident and the subsequent ghost story were mentioned by Dan Aykroyd during his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on June 6, 1984. The two girls in the photograph that are having the bunny ears (Patricia Ghyssels) and the one jokingly being choked (Stephanie Stanich) were the only two flight attendants who did not survive the crash. Startled, and now fully awake, he wondered, Whats going on here? A former crew chief on a B-52 in Vietnam, he had a keener sense than most passengers about a plane in trouble. Visitation: Thursday, October 7, from 6pm to 8pm at Loyless Funeral Home Chapel, with a Funeral mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church on Friday at 10am. Get Alerts. "I'm going to send some flowers to Miami and have them put on the grave of my first wife," said Ronald Infantino, who lost his bride of 20 days in the crash. A team catalogues the mangled remains of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 aircraft at the crash site in the Everglades. About Flight 401 | Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. Passenger List: TWA Flight 800. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. After lowering the gear, First Officer Stockstill noticed that the landing gear indicator, a green light identifying that the nose gear is properly locked in the "down" position, had not illuminated. At 11:42 p.m., the first officer said, We did something to the altitude.. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. Funny how people scream for God at a time like that. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | Eddie Albert featured as "Dunn", a fictionalized version of Captain Robert Loft. [5]:13. The unintentional jar apparently caused the planes nose to tilt down a few degrees. A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. They rushed to rescue survivors. [25] A television movie of the same name was broadcast in October 1978. Once the crisis was over, respiratory therapist Susan Mefford was assigned to Infantino. But, to play it safe, she always wore an add-on hairpiece and teased her hair up into a bouffant to make herself look taller. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 Off I went to check with the FAA Flight Service Station. Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 "Having money ruined my life," he said. "You have to keep your eye on the frogs real good when that airboat is moving - I mean not take your eyes away - and be quick with the gig," he says, in what amounts to the Gettysburg Address for him. 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). Everything else was in small pieces spread in a general southwest or south-by-southwest direction for 1,500 to 2,000 feet. What happened next must have happened very quickly. He was more than 25 miles away. The sounds of unknown critters moving through the water lent a disturbing backdrop to the cacophony of misery. Flight 401 Crash Site Hauntings |. Hey!" It was rare for commercial airliners to fly westbound directly overhead Opa locka Airport at such a relatively low altitude. That subsides. Isell Delgado 1/23/25 On December 29, 1972 pilot Robert "Bob" Loft and flight engineer Don Repo were piloting Eastern Airlines Flight 401 from JFK Airport (NY) to Miami, Florida. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 Mom apparently worked closely with that flight attendant. [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. The cruel facts of this disaster only reinforced my observation that you won't die unless it's your time to die. One day, late in 1973, I got a phone call from James telling me to come over to his house; he had something for me. His flight crew included First Officer . Also in attendance was Ron Infantino, David Kaplan and the Casado family. Patricia George was on top of the coat closet. The memories don't. "I think I can still do it. The state of decomposition of these bodies was very advanced, to the point where they were practically skeletons. Eight passengers became infected; doctors used hyperbaric chambers to treat the infections. His right arm was badly hurt. The old airboat, the airboat in which he carried injured passengers, waits on a rusty trailer with flat tires. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). When Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed out of the sky over the Florida Everglades in December 1972 it was without a doubt one of the worst commercial air disasters in American history, with over 100 people losing their lives. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. Theyre not going to find us, an anxious passenger whispered. [17] Over time, the reporting of ghost sightings stopped. That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. It's truly amazing how the mind works for, at the time, I had no idea of the significance of what I saw that night nor did I intend to store it away in my memory banks. There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. He saw tangled metal and smelled aviation fuel. theYear = now.getYear() Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 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. I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . "They gave us six months off and then we were expected to be 'over it. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. Develop, execute, and document the system verification plan for flight and representative hardware at the system level and validate the as-built system prior to launch. Flight 401 - First Response | Ann Connell, Barry Connell, Angelo Donadeo, Patricia R Georgia, Adrianne Ann Hamilton, Jennifer Larsen, Thomas Mulcahy, Mercedes V Ruiz, Beverly Jean Raposa, Trudy J Smith, Sue F. Tibbs, Sharon R Transue, Dorothy M Warnock. One hundred and one lives were lost that late . Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 The accident in a nutshell According to the Aviation Safety Network, Eastern Air Lines had 163 passengers and 13 members of crew onboard, totaling 176 occupants altogether. Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. His fishing and hunting skills helped put supper on the family table. Ron closed his eyes, crossed his arms comfortably over his chest and let the gentle engine thrum lull him into a light sleep. Follow my voice!. Repo was evacuated to a hospital, but later died from his injuries. The crash is considered unique in aviation history because of where it occurred: in Florida's Everglades a sprawling . The scene was impressive. On the clear, moonless night of Dec. 29, 1972, a young rookie game warden sat behind the steering wheel of a light-green 1969 Plymouth four-door sedan with a blue gumball emergency light mounted on the rooftop. Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashed at 2342 eastern standard time, December 29, 1972, 18.7 miles west-northwest of Miami International Airport, Miami Florida. Join FlightAware View more flight history Purchase entire flight history for AAL401. The National Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation gave Marquis a humanitarian award for being the first to respond to the crash, and in a touching tribute, members of The Southern Airboat association presented Marquis with a completely rebuilt airboat - the same one he had used to rescue crash victims in 1972.. "I think it's nice, but I don't think I really deserve a lot of hullabaloo over this," Marquis, 78, of Homestead, said of the award. We're having legs tonight. NTSB Crash Report (Flight 401) | Sir, dont worry, he said. The government considered him totally disabled. She was killed. Jose Garcia 6/4/47 | Rumors quickly spread that the man may be hiding at the abandoned Parkway West Medical Center, which prompted heavily armed police to move in. Unfortunately it did so as a scattered wreck over the marshes of Florida's Everglades. He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Of the 163 passengers and 13 crew-members aboard, 94 passengers and 5 crew members received fatal injuries. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. Wait a minute, he said. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). Rosa Losano 11/1/01 More than a quarter mile long, the cone-shaped debris field was filled with an apocalyptic jumble of human carnage, personal belongings and aircraft wreckage. He retired from the Metro-Dade police department and moved to Brooksville, Florida many years ago. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. Loise Shackelford attended. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. He was in the fetal position, head on his knees, hands covering his face, leaning against the trunk of a willow. Based on Fuller's book, it emphasized the ghost sightings. ValuJet Flight 592 was a domestic passenger flight between Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, and William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia that crashed into the Everglades on May 11, 1996 as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by improperly stored cargo, killing all 110 people on board. [23], According to Robert J. Serling's 1980 book From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines, the claim that wreckage from Flight 401 was installed and later removed from other Eastern aircraft was false, and no Eastern employees had ever claimed to have seen or believed in the alleged ghost sightings. [12][13] The training is designed to make problem solving in a cockpit much more efficient, thus causing less distraction for the crew. That simple piece of plastic represents a tie between me and what happened to the passengers and crew on Flight 401 on December 29, 1972. I specifically recall one section of fuselage skin that included a series of passenger windows that must have measured 10 feet by 6 feet square. Flight 401 crash-landed into the Everglades at over 200 mph. We were in Dade County, and my patrol zone was Broward County to the north., During his airboat training, senior wardens of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission had told Leonhard, Never stop or slow an airboat down in rank grass because you may not be able to power out of it. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." [5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. Then the commuter airline folded. One was Micale, who they found alone on a clump of swamp muck, drenched in swamp water and jet fuel. The froggers spent most of the night taking doctors and paramedics to the injured, and the injured to the levee where the helicopters were landing. This killed the First Officer instantly. Afterward, folks hope to take the old man into the Everglades, in his own airboat, if he wants. He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. Less than three hours later the aircraft reached Florida. 12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. Leonhard doesnt remember which one. Chapter II - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) Subchapter A - ECONOMIC REGULATIONS. They turned on the autopilot. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. Refresh the page,. He did well for a while -- had a big house in the Country Club of Miami and drove a Lincoln. The flight was routine until 23:32 when the plane began its approach into Miami International Airport. 35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back. We were like five bobbing bubble-head dolls because there were a lot - and I mean a lot - of other aircraft up in the air doing the same thing we set out to do. [22] Loft's widow and children did sue Fuller, for infringement of Loft's right of publicity, for invasion of privacy, and for intentional infliction of emotional distress, but the lawsuit was dismissed and the dismissal upheld by the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal. Warren Terry 2/16/34 Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 They even made cheesy movie about it. It was a solemn and sobering return flight. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other. Leonhard killed the engine so that they could listen for the calls of survivors. Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 Eastern used the Bowmar/Calrod brand. Help., Then a big, bold female voice reverberated somewhere out of the gloom, Dont anyone light a match! A few minutes later, If you can hear my voice, come to me! It's a swamp, a flat swamp. Around 4:30 a.m., Leonhard waded up to a willow heada thick tangle of weepy trees with brittle limbs draping into the water. Today, she still has the small, Eastern Airlines-issued cream-colored suitcase she carried the night of the crash. Now for the big decisions - who gets to ride with us? When she came to, she was still belted into her seat, tipped to one side, hanging six feet above the swamp. It was during one of those sessions on December 29, 1972, that Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crossed paths with me and some of the other club members. Serving coffee, tea and soda was all very nice, but this was what counted. He saw a man, sitting in the water with a neck injury, trying to remain upright. It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. 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. Miguel Junco 8/28/42 In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. B738. He was 79. Maureen I. Chesler 10/12/47 At the time, the decision to change seats carried no meaning. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. It was a routine trip for Flight 401 until 11:32 p.m. when the plane began its approach to Miami International Airport, and an indicator light for the nose landing gear had not lit up. I was tired and hit the sack as soon as I got home. The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. James Yandolino 3/7/52 Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on We dont have a light on our nose gear yet.. Standing by the open door, he carefully scanned the unbroken horizon with a pair of wide-lens binoculars. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. Loretta E. Bloodgood 10/13/15 She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. At home, waiting sometimes fearfully, was Nancy, a pretty barefoot country girl in a cotton dress. But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. 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]. Below: The Casado family tour the crash site. Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 Unborn son of Rochelle and Stefan Rubin 'S 1977 book crash we made it out, '' she said, and is buried in Pierce. 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