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. By about 3:15 a.m., Raposas flock of survivors had all been rescued. And before I had time to even let off the throttle or do anything else, I ran over those two people, who I knew were both dead. His flight crew included First Officer . Also in attendance was Ron Infantino, David Kaplan and the Casado family. Pine and others want to do something nice for Bud, perhaps honor him with a special day, raise cash for Bud's taxes, groceries and medical bills. Nicholas Minguzzi 8/5/68 Instead of landing in . 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. She had nothing. The slight forward pressure on the stick would have caused the aircraft to enter a slow descent, maintained by the CWS system. Flight 401 Crash Site Hauntings |. In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 "It's 100 degrees in the house, honey," Nancy says, joining him on the porch. At least he lives near his precious Everglades. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. You can see the brand name on the oven instruction plate. 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. "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. This guy had been hurled from the plane like a human cannonball. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. The Ghosts of Flight 401, part of the Discovery+ series Shock Docs, emphasizes the supernatural legacy of the crash. One hundred and three lives were lost. Speculation at the club was rampant which is to be expected from a bunch of pilots. [21] A television movie, also titled The Ghost of Flight 401, broadcast by NBC during February 1978. [5]:5. After the crash, a . If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. Boom. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. Entry . In the end, it appears that the source of the stories was an article in an issue of the Flight Safety Foundation. That left two seats open. Discretion was the better part of valor. Eastern Airlines Flight #401 (L1011 N310EA) crashed in the Everglades on December 29, 1972. Jose Rego 9/5/19 Eight minutes earlier, 401 had been descending on its landing approach after an uneventful flight from New York. During its descent, the Boeing jet airliner was in a "nose up deck approach" which meant that it was almost next to impossible for its flight crew to see the small Cessna flying directly below it.39 The overhead position of the climbing Cessna 172 Skyhawk's cantilevered wing would have restricted Boswell and Kazy's rear view.40 The NTSB classified the injuries of one nonrevenue passenger and one other passenger as nonfatal, as their deaths occurred more than seven days after the accident. James Hall, Flight Operations and Safety, Miami office, had the task of notifying all the families of the crash victims. All three pilots, two of 10 flight attendants, and 96 of 163 passengers died, while 75 passengers and crew survived. Flashlights are now standard equipment near jumpseats, and all jumpseats are outfitted with shoulder harnesses. [26], Flight 401 is mentioned in the TV show Supernatural Season 1 Episode 4 named Phantom Traveler's. Ethel L. Jackson 3/8/08 Two others did not want to be reminded. Abover right - Over 100 airboats participated in the evenet. He butchered their bodies to pieces after his wife threatened him with divorce. Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. They had drowned because their seats landed with their heads tilted down into the swamp water. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 7 | On a moonless night, in the beam of his head lamp, the frog eyes would glow like rubies. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 1 | "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. I checked my log book entry for Dec. 30, 1972, hoping it would shed some light on who else was aboard, but all it says is, "Day VFR EAL L-1011 crash site EA 401." The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. About Flight 401 | Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. 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. Mary Carfizzi 11/3/19 My direct and indirect contact with Eastern Flight 401 didn't end on December 30, 1972. Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman termed the ghost stories about the crash "garbage". 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. Less than three hours later the aircraft reached Florida. Possible Curse of Seminole Indians | The TriStar's port outer wing structure struck the ground first, followed by the number1 engine and the port main undercarriage. "I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it." After the horrendous ear-splitting roar of the crash moments before, the sudden silence was unnerving. Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. I wouldnt be a bit surprised if the speed hed been traveling was well over a hundred miles an hour., Leonhard added, The guy weighed around 160, but it still took eight of us carrying a stretcher filled with his dead weight to carry him out. Muriel J. Ames 11/30/40 He was mentioned in a book, The Crash of Flight 401, later made into a B-movie, and helped a Hollywood writer with the awful Ghosts of Flight 401, about commercial jets haunted by the dead pilots. The crash is considered unique in aviation history because of where it occurred: in Florida's Everglades a sprawling . The court citing, among other reasons, that the claimants were found to be actors or participants in newsworthy stories or events, that the book a nonfictionalized account based on the authors own investigationfell under the legitimate public interest exception. Loise Shackelford attended. Based on the book, it dramatized the crash, rescue efforts, and NTSB investigation. Captain Loft had been with the airline for 32 years and had accumulated a total of 29,700 flight hours throughout his flying career. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. For his efforts, he received the Humanitarian Award from the National Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation and the "Alumitech Airboat Hero Award", from the American Airboat Search and Rescue Association. [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. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). Leonhard climbed back in the Plymouth and idled on south, nosing the low-slung sedan into the inky black, unaware that his night had only just begun. 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. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . Sharon Transue was a replacement crew member out of reserve, didn't feel as much a . Seventy-five miraculously survived. Nery Palma 7/12/34 Born in Arkansas, he grew up in South Florida when everybody seemed to be poor. I was a kid, 21 years old. His name showed up recently on a Web site (eastern401.googlepages.com) about the 35th anniversary of a tragedy that killed more than 100 passengers and traumatized dozens more. Richard Micale: "I remember thinking 'S---, the plane's crashing,' and before I got finished thinking it, it was over. Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08 Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 By 1 a.m., the rookie warden had launched his airboat. Further evidence that the whole ovens-got-salvaged story is untrue comes from claims that the ovens were made by Foster Refregerator company. 35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back. From a half mile above, it's like an artist's canvas. James Yandolino 3/7/52 No flicker from an air boaters headlamp. Each year on December 29th, I spend a little time thinking about that silhouetted L1011 heading west over Opa locka Airport. "I was engaged and my fiance was killed in a drunk-driving accident two months before the wedding," she said. The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. After a few minutes they saw the lights of rescue helicopters, circling, searching, much too far east and south. His last prospect, Teresa Trapnell, listened to his pitch, didn't buy, but told her insurance executive husband, Bob, what a swell salesman she had met that day. (The largest L1011 operators then at MIA were Eastern Airlines and Delta Airlines, but I don't recall seeing any airline markings when the L1011 was overhead.) Wait a minute, he said. /24-7PressRelease/ - MIAMI, FL, December 07, 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 . [6]:107109, Robert "Bud" Marquis (19292008),[7] an airboat pilot, was out frog gigging with Ray Dickinsin (19291988) when they witnessed the crash. 12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. The night was a balmy 72 degrees, the mosquitoes surprisingly sparse. His left knee was dislocated, wrenched sideways at a vicious right angle. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. The Ghost of Flight 401 was based on the tragic Eastern Air Lines airplane crash in December 1972, and the alleged supernatural events which followed; it was eventually turned into a popular 1978 made-for-television movie. How about we start with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. We were standing outside the clubhouse on the ramp, getting ready to lock up the building before leaving, when we both noticed something unusual overhead. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. It was closing in on midnight on Dec. 29, 1972. It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami. Someone had seen his frogging light. In the hospital, a nine-inch steel rod was inserted into the bone. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. Song - The Ghost of Flight 401 - Lyrics | He'd see the lights and hear the roar as the jets climbed into the black night over the swamp or descended toward Miami International Airport. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. Bud helped the man into the airboat and poured him coffee from the thermos. The mud of the Everglades may have blocked wounds sustained by survivors, preventing them from bleeding to death. 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. It seemed to be miles off course. 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. Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. Check-in; . The flight is referenced as part of the Bob Welch song "The Ghost of Flight 401" on his 1979 album Three Hearts. Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. Hansel owned a single engine Piper Comanche 250, registered as N7510P, that held four people, including the pilot. 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