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Obviously, he was home trying to get some rest at noon on Saturday, but he eventually came out to the clubhouse late in the afternoon or early evening. It looked like a piece of the wreckage, or something, had been propelled on a near horizontal trajectory, traveling just a foot or two above the waters surface, and rocketed into the willows with tremendous force., Bent at the waist, the two men waded into the hole, following a ragged debris trail of damaged vegetation. It promised to be an exciting week in Miami, especially for people who had bucks for a meal at Joe's Stone Crabs and a night at the Fontainebleau Hotel, where the sexy dancer Ann-Margret was headlining. Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. Riding with him were two Federal Aviation Administration officials. The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 [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. Those pilots probably didn't even know there was a NOTAM prohibiting flight immediately above the crash site. What caused Flight 401 crash? "I was wounded in World War II when the ship I was on was hit by a kamikaze. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. Combined with numerous anonymous witnesses and countless tales, the rumors spread throughout the aviation community. The problem had consumed all their mental energy. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. My log book shows that our flight lasted 1.2 hours. He sold 13 in a month. At least they thought they had. The cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. Each year on December 29th, I spend a little time thinking about that silhouetted L1011 heading west over Opa locka Airport. 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 crash was featured in season five of the Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series Mayday, in a 2009 episode called "Fatal Distraction".[9]. Above: Flight attendants Beverly Raposa and Mercy Ruiz sit on a patch of ground in the Everglades where their flight crashed 35 years earlier. [6]:110 Visually, since it was nighttime and the aircraft was flying over the darkened terrain of the Everglades, no ground lights or other visual signs indicated the TriStar was slowly descending. Allen M. Stark 8/11/49 This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! Branches had been recently snapped off all the way around the opening, all pointing inward. 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. Eastern management must have taken the stories somewhat seriously, however. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". In fact, she told my mother that she cringed in fear every time she drove down Le Jeune Road (the eastern boundary of Miami International Airport) just because of all the jet noise when planes were landing and taking off. the pilot asked at the last second. Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. Kenneth Michael Mazonne 3/27/44 With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. 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. [5]:3, The cockpit crew removed the light assembly,[6]:102 and Second Officer Repo was dispatched to the avionics bay beneath the flight deck to check via a small porthole whether the landing gear was indeed down. They also told me that Bill had been called shortly after he got home by the police department helicopter unit to come back to the airport (the police helicopter unit was based at Opa locka) for emergency flight duty. . It was an easy way to break the monotony of intense study, tour the good old USA and also earn a few bucks and I must emphasize the aspect of the earnings. Lost - Passengers and Crew (Name and Birthdate), Elise Grace Agate 9/3/42 Late in the evening of Friday, December 29, 1972, I was at the old Sun Flying Club tie-down area located on the east side of Opa locka Airport in metropolitan Miami, Florida. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | The tall building behind the plane is Building 16 at MIA, the former headquarters of Eastern Air Lines. With determination born of her Portuguese grandparents work ethic and her work on a 160-acre dairy farm as a young girl growing up in Rhode Island, the former Girl Scout troop leader shouted, Im a stewardess. Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, A few minutes later Leonhards radio crackled. [25] A television movie of the same name was broadcast in October 1978. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. His wife said his ashes would be spread over the crash site in the Everglades that ''he loved so much,'' at a later date. As Stockstill started another turn, onto 180, he noticed the discrepancy. An original floor board from Flight 401 remains in the archives at History Miami in South Florida. It looked like someone had poured gasoline on a campfire, and poof, up it went. Curiously, Leonhard never heard the impact. He received a $250,000 settlement in a lawsuit, blew it all, got into drug trouble, went back to work and fell off a truck. All three pilots, two of 10 flight attendants, and 96 of 163 passengers died, while 75 passengers and crew survived. Julia Lustig 5/30/25 ", PHOTO of Mercy Ruiz and her Samsonite suitcase in May 2009. [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. ", Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute. [5]:4 Fifty seconds after reaching their assigned altitude, Captain Loft instructed First Officer Stockstill to put the L-1011 on autopilot. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. They had drowned because their seats landed with their heads tilted down into the swamp water. That was a miracle that is probably attributable to three factors: (1) the crash site was a soft, wet swamp; (2) there was no significant post-crash fire; and (3) the force of disintegration was directed horizontally and not vertically, flinging many survivors out into the swamp instead of subjecting them to fatal blunt force trauma which is characteristic of most airplane crashes. Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute | [16], While Eastern Air Lines publicly denied their planes were haunted, they reportedly removed all the salvaged parts from their L-1011 fleet. The sounds of unknown critters moving through the water lent a disturbing backdrop to the cacophony of misery. Frank Borman, a former NASA astronaut and Eastern's senior vice president of operations, was awoken at home by a telephone call explaining of a probable crash. Ron Infantino woke up in a chill, heart pounding, breath erratic. This photo taken in September 2009. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. With almost twice the area of Rhode Island, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States has some of the most formidable terrain on Earth. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 You don't want to be in the water with me.". Jesus Lorenzo 4/26/37 He lost interest in his job and just wanted to be alone. 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. Oddly, he felt no pain. Eddie Albert featured as "Dunn", a fictionalized version of Captain Robert Loft. The most accurate account of the crash of Flight 401 was authored by a journalist from the Miami Herald, Rob Elder. And now, no one was flying the plane. The flight should have taken around 18 hours. 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. It didnt sound like they were in midair anymore. The ultimate "yes sir, no sir" man, Bud shuffles reluctantly onto the porch, blinking furiously in the sunlight, wondering what's up. On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the second worst single-plane disaster in America up to that time. Rosa Losano 11/1/01 He likes to think about those days. On September 4, 1954, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 departed from Aachen, West Germany, destined for Porto Alegre, Brazil. Miguel Junco 8/28/42 I'll forever believe that it was Eastern Flight 401, just minutes before it and its passengers and crew became part of aviation history and legend. Both pilots and the flight engineer died, along with 2 out of 10 flight attendants and 96 of the 163 passengers on board. On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines flight 401 left New York's JFK airport and crashed on its approach to Miami, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV Movie 1978) - IMDb, Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute, The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV 1978) - YouTube, Flight 401 - Flight Crew Fatal Photograph, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 - Crash Investigation, Findings and Passenger List - Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. But it kept jamming. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew blew the roof of the house across the street through his front windows. "Welcome to Miami," the pilot announced during the descent at 11:30. "I was engaged and my fiance was killed in a drunk-driving accident two months before the wedding," she said. Well launch from there.. "Remember what the doctor said," Nancy chimes in. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. Clutching his walking stick, Bud shuffles past a mango tree into the backyard. The final NTSB report cited the cause of the crash as pilot error, specifically: "the failure of the flight crew to monitor the flight instruments during the final four minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground. Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. The Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar was the latest generation of wide-body commercial aircraft and had been put into service only four months before. 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Walker, Alan Weiss, Lorenzo Zetlin. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. Then wham! Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades,[1][2][3] causing 101 total fatalities. Captain Loft was found during the autopsy to have an undetected brain tumor in an area that controls vision. 12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. Of the cockpit crew, only flight engineer Repo survived the initial crash, along with technical officer Donadeo, who was down in the nose electronics bay with Repo at the moment of impact. Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. It seemed to help. In the narrow beam of his head lamp he now saw enormous strips of torn metal. The time was 9:20 p.m. Donadeo, an Eastern Airlines technical specialist on L-1011 aircraft, was returning to Miami that night from a trouble- shooting assignment in New York. It would be hard to make up a plausible story like Ronald Infantino's -- too sad, too joyful. Brief Synopsis. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. Walker's body is still fairly intact. 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). He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. Lights in the Darkness: The crash of Eastern Air Lines flight 401 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. 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. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. Five hours after the crash, the welcome sounds of voices and legs sloshing through water, labored breathing and flashlight beams probing the dark broke the silence. Mama, heat up the frying pan. I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. Eastern Airlines Flight #401 (L1011 N310EA) crashed in the Everglades on December 29, 1972. The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. 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. 3h 15m. My God, what do we do now? Blackness. Frank Borman And Flight 401 #2505745 BY NIKV69 - Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:17 am Being a child from an Eastern Air Lines family I am shocked that my father never told me that Frank Borman who at the time was a new VP of EAL rushed to the scene of the crash of flight 401 in the Everglades in December of 72'. Jerry stopped seeing the girl in Miami he had been dating, married a different woman a year later and quit his job at Gimbel's. 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. [6]:110, Investigation into the aircraft's autopilot showed that the force required to switch to CWS mode was different between the A and B channels (15 and 20lbf or 65 and 90N, respectively). She had been turned down by Trans World Airlines for a job because she was a half inch under the 5-foot-2-inch minimum height required for all stewardesses. He retired from the Metro-Dade police department and moved to Brooksville, Florida many years ago. 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. 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. 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. 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. After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. It happened 40 years ago today on a cold dark night in the Everglades, a brand new "Whisperliner" jumbo jet. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. Repo, Donald Louis | Eastern 401, pull up, climb straight ahead to 2,000, go back to approach control, the tower advised. I don't question what the Lord does.". Shock had taken over. What happened next must have happened very quickly. Angelo was a friend to all who know him, generous with his time to anyone who needed him and a devoted husband and father. In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 . Ways to check-in for your flight including online and on your mobile. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. Luis Bancroft 10/10/48 Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | At the time, the decision to change seats carried no meaning. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70 Bud spent his time arresting grizzled gator poachers and rough-cob deer thieves, cane-polers with too many bream on their stringers and feral teenage boys selling protected Indigo snakes to pet stores. One retired Eastern L-1011 pilot I spoke to said that he had a second officer flying with him on a B-727 for several months in the Spring of '73 who was a self-ordained preacher. Ten feet in front of them were what looked like two mannequins to Leonharda partially clothed woman lying faceup in the mud and a naked man lying facedown. Unborn son of Rochelle and Stefan Rubin [5]:3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. Seventy-five miraculously survived. Loise Shackelford attended. I vaguely remember that we ended up taking a total of five people on that flight. In the days and weeks following the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, recovery efforts captivated the nation, and perhaps because of its iconic, unforgiving, alligator-riddled crash site, the event has remained seared in the memories of Floridians for decades. On his 1979 album Three Hearts, musician Bob Welch also recorded a song titled "The Ghost of Flight 401". [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. Richard L. Marquis, a carpet-layer, saw it too. in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or related subject area Although he was a passenger, he rode in the cockpit with pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer. There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. Once you become stuck in the glades, you could be there for a long, long, time.. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 Leonhard put the car in park, cut the motor and stepped out. Eugene Schenker 6/24/30 Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 Tuesday. A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. Warren Terry 2/16/34 In short, it was a great place to eat (we used to have outstanding club Bar-B-Q, talk airplanes, perform minor maintenance and fly planes. December 21, 2022, 5:00 AM. Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 Lockheed L-1011 Cockpit | 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. 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. His fishing and hunting skills helped put supper on the family table. The breakup of the fuselage had freed it from its stowage and activated its inflation mechanism. 2023-Feb-14. Frank Borman called it all a bunch of "crap" and considered suing the producers of the 1978 made-for-TV movie about the ghost stories for libel. He felt a sense of mission as he looked out into the black swamp, knowing that his job required cunning and stealth. The aircraft impacted the Everglades at 227 mph at 25.51'53"N, 80.35'43"W, almost 7 miles due north of Tamiami Trail (US 41), slightly over 7 miles . He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Greta Foye 3/19/45 I told Hansel that we needed to check, before we got into the air, whether there were any flight restrictions over the crash site which seemed pretty logical to me. Wide-Body commercial aircraft and had been put into service only four months the. Pilots and the plane descended out of the house across the street through his front windows a! 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