He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 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. It became his navigation beacon. The crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 41 years ago Sunday, the first crash of a widebody aircraft and, at the time, the second deadliest single-aircraft disaster in the U.S., led to wide-ranging changes in on board safety that continue to positively affect air travel today. [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. Song - The Ghost of Flight 401 - Lyrics | The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV Movie 1978) - IMDb | Then the commuter airline folded. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. [5]:3, The flight was routine until 23:32, when the airplane began its approach into Miami International Airport. Bill and I left for our respective homes after securing the clubhouse. Mama, heat up the frying pan. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. At home, waiting sometimes fearfully, was Nancy, a pretty barefoot country girl in a cotton dress. 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. N310EA, the aircraft involved in the accident. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa, Stephanie Stanich. Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. How about we start with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?. At least they thought they had. With no one flying the plane or noticing its steady descent at flight speed, it flew itself into the ground. "[5]:2324, In response to this and other accidents during the 1970s, many airlines started crew resource management training for their pilots. He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. [27]. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 passengers crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. Forgotten about him, actually. The cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. The most interesting story in The Ghost of Flight 401 revolves around the conflict between the employees and airline management in regards to the ghost sightings. They failed to notice that the autopilot had been disconnected inadvertently and, subsequently, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. Wreckage from Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, Buried up to his neck in freezing water and muck, completely naked except for the elastic rims of his socks, severely injured, shivering and in shock, Infantino feebly called into the night: Lilly, where are you? Eastern management must have taken the stories somewhat seriously, however. The other 101 people on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 died quite horribly -- 98 in the Everglades where the airplane crashed, three later in hospitals. 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. In fact we all were troubled because, by the luck of the draw or fate, some passengers survived while others in similar situations who looked as though they should have survived, were killed. For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars. Once you become stuck in the glades, you could be there for a long, long, time.. I probably did too, I'm sure." "Ladies, you're safe up there. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 An adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister wrote on Facebook that the plane was shot down, the Associated Press reports. The hours passed, and still no rescuers had arrived. I saw people burned in agony. Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts. Instead of landing in . This was the first fatal crash of a wide-body aircraft. "The temperature is in the low 70s, and it's beautiful out there tonight." 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. 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. Both pilots and the flight engineer died, along with 2 out of 10 flight attendants and 96 of the 163 passengers on board. (The club is still in existence at the Opa locka Airport, but it was relocated to a different site on the field years ago.) Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other. The apparitions of Loft and Repo were invariably described as being extremely lifelike. A team catalogues the mangled remains of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 aircraft at the crash site in the Everglades. Unborn son of Rochelle and Stefan Rubin His writings form the basis for much of this Web site, with permission. 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. He'd cruise up on the frog, spear the frog with the 3-pronged gig, knock the frog off the gig into a sack, all the while moving forward in the airboat while getting ready to gig another frog. According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. 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 was a retired aircraft Engineer with Eastern Airlines in Miami, a survivor of the December 1972 crash of the L-1011 in the Everglades, and a Navy veteran of WWII. He was more than 25 miles away. Tennessee's Music City combines country, bluegrass, rock, pop, Americana, gospel, classical, jazz, and bluesall in perfect harmonyto create one of the best places in the world to remember music's greatest performers, see today's top artists, and maybe discover the next big thing. 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. of 401 King Street, London, W6 9NJ, United Kingdom (+612 9691 0176). [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. He had to make a detour of some 50 miles before he would arrive at the boat ramp on the north side of the Tamami Trail. Richard L. Marquis, a carpet-layer, saw it too. Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. By that time, I had also earned a commercial pilot license with airplane single and multi-engine and instrument ratings. Hey, whats happening here? the captain shouted. The jet bounced once, then hit again. I don't remember the take-off or the landing that day, but I vividly remember the meteorological conditions and the crash site. "I was wounded in World War II when the ship I was on was hit by a kamikaze. [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08 Leonhard put the car in park, cut the motor and stepped out. Salvatore Carfizzi 7/15/15 He was in the fetal position, head on his knees, hands covering his face, leaning against the trunk of a willow. "When I tried to prop him up it felt like every bone in his body was broken.". In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. Good for me! Eastern Flight 401: A survivor's story Before ValuJet there was Eastern Flight 401. In recent months Canti and others have made pilgrimages to Bud's screened door to hear his story. They were heading his way. Leonhard pulled his eyes away from the painful scene, lifted his head and slowly swung the stark-white beam of his helmet-mounted lamp across a massive trench carved in the marsh. The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. 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. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. Flight 401 departed JFK Airport in New York on Friday, December 29, 1972, at 21:20, with 163 passengers and 13 crew members on board. Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. One was Micale, who they found alone on a clump of swamp muck, drenched in swamp water and jet fuel. Obviously, I'm not a hunter, but I don't begrudge those who do hunt responsibly. When she came to, she was still belted into her seat, tipped to one side, hanging six feet above the swamp. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. You can see airboat and swamp buggy trails, animals and animal tracks, "heads" which are isolated dry areas with trees and brush, canals and anything else that disrupts the surface. Follow my voice!. I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 is coming in for a landing in Miami. It didn't light. Survivors - Crew and Eastern Employees Bud asks his wife to look for his scrapbooks. Mildred Katz 1/8/34 Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. Some of those he saved were there, including flight attendants Mercy Ruiz and Sue Tebbs, as well as Beverly Raposa, the flight attendant who rallied passengers to safety after the crash. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa and Stephanie Stanich. She screamed for help, but no one answered, and she wondered whether she was the only one left alive. So far, the Board of Directors of the Curtiss Mansion has graciously given their approval to place the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Memorial on it's grounds. [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. His last complete thought before losing consciousness was, This is going to be one hell of a rough landing., Beverly Raposa with her Eastern Airlines stewardess class in the 60s; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. Leonhard doesnt remember which one. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. It's a swamp, a flat swamp. (AP) PITTSBURGH - A former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath of the . Possible Curse of Seminole Indians | 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. Hey! Later that afternoon or evening, Bill Elliott came back to the clubhouse where we were all waiting for him so he could let us know what he did and saw. Now take a sip. Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Funny how people scream for God at a time like that. Bob called Infantino, who loves to tell the story: "He was a regional coordinator with AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Co., and that's when I started -- 16 years ago, and I've been with them ever since. Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. The television movie The Ghost of Flight 401, which was broadcast on NBC during February 1978, offers a fictionalized depiction of the crash and alleged ghost sightings. Two years after the crash, Anita and Franklin Kent's lives were taken up by endless doctor visits. 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. Henry Nunez 8/18/23 Elisa Ruth Romero 5/28/44 The plane was dropping from the sky at a rate of 200 feet each minute. The memories don't. She was very scared, having never been in the Everglades before. Clutching his walking stick, Bud shuffles past a mango tree into the backyard. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. Rosario Messina 2/29/26 [15][18] The reported hauntings were said to be seen only on the planes that used the spare parts. "You didn't have nothing to worry about," he'd tell her, finding a seat on the porch, from where he could hear the barred owls and their singular "who-cooks-for-you" calls, exciting and mournful at once. Grand Canyon Disaster + . He also likes not to think about those days. [4] Despite their own injuries, the surviving flight attendants were credited with helping other survivors and several quick-thinking actions such as warning survivors of the danger of striking matches due to jet fuel in the swamp water[9] and singing Christmas carols to keep up hope and draw the rescue teams' attention, as flashlights were not part of the standard equipment on commercial airliners at the time. The slight forward pressure on the stick would have caused the aircraft to enter a slow descent, maintained by the CWS system. Now 41, he lives alone in Titusville, on a disability pension. "I consider the survivors 75 miracles. Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. Dead bodies hung, lay and floated everywhere I looked. The four-month-old L-1011 TriStar jet crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972 at 11:42 p.m., caused . It looked like someone had poured gasoline on a campfire, and poof, up it went. Curiously, Leonhard never heard the impact. Eventually, the investigations were concluded and most, but not all, of the wreckage was removed or salvaged from the Everglades. On December 29, 1972, Flight 401 was en route to Miami International Airport but due to a malfunctioning landing gear light and other distractions, plowed into the swampland, making the incident the second deadliest single aircraft disaster in United States history. Skeptic Brian Dunning claims that the origin for the ghost sightings was a joke made by an Eastern Air Lines captain after an emergency landing in which he quipped that he "thought [Don] Repo's ghost was on the plane."[22][24]. Game warden Gray Leonhard in the 70s; Photography courtesy of Gray Leonhard. 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). [5]:5. It wouldn't take much.". The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV 1978) - YouTube | Silence. Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, A few minutes later Leonhards radio crackled. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. This guy had been hurled from the plane like a human cannonball. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. Lockheed L-1011 Landing Gear Lever | After a few minutes they saw the lights of rescue helicopters, circling, searching, much too far east and south. An aerial view of the crash site; a swath of the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. 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. The Miami News, Dec. 30, 1972. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. Thirty minutes later, Leonhard and his passengers suddenly burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass. I mean, I was a single person with no family. Each year on December 29th, I spend a little time thinking about that silhouetted L1011 heading west over Opa locka Airport. There would be plenty of time for body recovery, Leonhard said. Suddenly, he stopped. Dennis Gordon 12/9/32 Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | An original floor board from Flight 401 remains in the archives at History Miami in South Florida. Richard J. Schulleri 1/3/43 3h 15m. "Hey! "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. Flipping through the pages, Bud smiles for the first time in hours. The Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Florida Everglades. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. [4] It was also the first hull loss and fatal crash of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. By about 3:15 a.m., Raposas flock of survivors had all been rescued. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. She choked on the acrid fumes from the 43,000 pounds of aviation gas that had spilled from the plane and screamed, Dont light any matches!. 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. Angelo was a friend to all who know him, generous with his time to anyone who needed him and a devoted husband and father. My God, what do we do now? My guess is that the L1011 essentially did a flat or horizontal cartwheel and tore itself apart. 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. Were not going to leave you.. Bud waved the helicopter toward a nearby levee. With his left, he held onto the boat and walked beside it to the levee. It seemed to be miles off course. Seventy-five miraculously survived. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. Flight 401 Crash Site Hauntings |. I vaguely remember that we ended up taking a total of five people on that flight. The landing gear from Flight 401 at the crash site; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Eastern's L-1011's came equipped with six Bowmar ovens (Lockheed Part Number 671878-115). Folks from South Florida's sporting community, mostly hunters, fishers and airboaters, heard, many for the first time, about Bud. In a calm, soothing voice, she said, Now close your eyes and pretend you have a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or tea in your hands. Because of the magnitude of the rescue operation and of the medical emergency caused the study resulted in a . There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. 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. (No one had a camera, so I don't have any personal photos.) The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. On September 4, 1954, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 departed from Aachen, West Germany, destined for Porto Alegre, Brazil. [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). Off I went to check with the FAA Flight Service Station. [5]:22[6]:109, 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. Meanwhile, 1,100 miles to the north, an Eastern Airlines jumbo jet lifted off in bitter cold weather from New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport. A trio of newly minted Rolls-Royce turbofan jet engines made a rumble that could barely be heard by the 163 passengers and 13 crew members seated inside the spacious cabin and reconfigured cockpit. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. Aground. Wrong. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. 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. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. One gave him money. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 The problem had consumed all their mental energy. About Flight 401 | Ron closed his eyes, crossed his arms comfortably over his chest and let the gentle engine thrum lull him into a light sleep. [5]:5 The airplane was traveling at 227 miles per hour (197kn; 365km/h) when it hit the ground. Murray Yellin 6/9/11 Repo was evacuated to a hospital, but later died from his injuries. Although there is no factual evidence to support the claim, legend has it that after the crash investigation, surviving avionics and galley equipment was salvaged from the crash site, returned to the manufacturers and overhauled to help relieve equipment shortages on Lockheed's growing production line. 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. Bound for Miami, Flight 401 took off from New York's JFK at 9:20 p.m. The movie is fairly innacurate and over-dramitized. Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. I was tired and hit the sack as soon as I got home. That doesn't haunt me either . Patricia George was on top of the coat closet. Part 243 - PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION. 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. Now it was her turn. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. Two later died, leaving 75 survivors and 101 fatalities. He has never taken pleasure in talking about what he saw after Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 went down and how he felt about it. This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others. Footage of the incident appeared in the movie Days of Fury (1980), directed by Fred Warshofsky and hosted by Vincent Price. Colonel. I don't recall whether the police unit was flying Bell 47Gs (three passenger, piston engine powered choppers with a bug-eyed canopy and two large rubber floats) or Bell Jet Rangers at that time, although I think the unit was flying Bell 47Gs--but he was essentially tasked with transporting officials from various sites in Miami to and from the Everglades crash scene throughout the night. He felt helpless, hearing what sounded like hundreds of voices coming at him from different directions. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades at 11:42 pm December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities (99 initial crash fatalities, two died shortly afterward). The majority of this equipment was fitted into Eastern's L-1011 N318EA while it was being assembled in Palmdale. The rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. Bill, ironically, as well as being the proud owner of a pristine Cessna 180 was one of the helicopter pilots for the Metro-Dade police department. Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. Captain Loft was found during the autopsy to have an undetected brain tumor in an area that controls vision. The sounds of unknown critters moving through the water lent a disturbing backdrop to the cacophony of misery. The jet actually began losing altitude, so gradually that no one noticed until the very end. He likes to think about those days. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. Sure enough, I recall that the initial restricted area was posted in a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) and set out a no-fly zone that had a one mile radius from the crash site up to 2,000 feet above mean sea level. They rushed to rescue survivors. Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45 Pin. Donadeo, an Eastern Airlines technical specialist on L-1011 aircraft, was returning to Miami that night from a trouble- shooting assignment in New York. As you may know, the mansion is an historic landmark in Miami, located just north of the airport it served as the location of the NTSB hearings into the crash. By 1 a.m., the rookie warden had launched his airboat. & # x27 ; s story before ValuJet there was Eastern Flight 401 before its Flight... 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