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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. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. 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. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70 Stephanie Rae Stanich 11/10/48 The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. A mass of interesting testimony was produced as a result. His writings form the basis for much of this Web site, with permission. He felt a sense of mission as he looked out into the black swamp, knowing that his job required cunning and stealth. Serving coffee, tea and soda was all very nice, but this was what counted. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. Riding with him were two Federal Aviation Administration officials. document.write(theYear) Flamingo Magazine, 8 Black Floridians Who Are an Absolute Force in Their Industry, Calling All Readers (and Writers): 13 Favorite Florida Indie Bookstores, The Wackiest Florida News Stories of 2022. On his 1979 album Three Hearts, musician Bob Welch also recorded a song titled "The Ghost of Flight 401". Sharon Transue was a replacement crew member out of reserve, didn't feel as much a . 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. Everything else was in small pieces spread in a general southwest or south-by-southwest direction for 1,500 to 2,000 feet. It is 12 feet long and 7 feet across. Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. The wheels were down, locked in position for landing, but the pilot wasn't sure about the forward wheel under the plane's nose. Picture that in your mind. Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. At 11:42 p.m., the first officer said, We did something to the altitude.. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. (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.) [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. He was out that night on his airboat, gigging frogs with a new friend, Ray Dickens. Rosario Messina 2/29/26 A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. [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. Warren Terry 2/16/34 A similar situation appeared in the Thai movie Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. He immediately drove to Eastern's Miami offices and decided to charter a helicopter to the crash site, as the swampy terrain made rescue difficult, and Eastern Airlines had not heard any news of progress in rescue efforts. [5]:23 In this mode, once the pilot releases pressure on the yoke (control column or wheel), the autopilot maintains the pitch attitude of the aircraft until the yoke is again moved. Because of the magnitude of the rescue operation and of the medical emergency caused the study resulted in a . I don't remember the take-off or the landing that day, but I vividly remember the meteorological conditions and the crash site. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. Three women on the jetliner's tail, about 20 feet above the water, begged Bud to save them. Also in attendance was Ron Infantino, David Kaplan and the Casado family. "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. After retiring he volunteered with the Civil Air Patrol, his last rank was Lt. Bud saw bodies strapped into seats upside down in the water. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | Robert A. Loft, then 55 years old, with 30 years experience and 29,700 flight hours under his belt, attempted to lower the landing gear. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. He wants to show them how to gig frogs. "We consider it the day our second life began," Christina Casado-Acorn, said of Dec. 29, 1972. The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . Susana Luna 8/29/29 Above: Flight attendants Beverly Raposa and Mercy Ruiz sit on a patch of ground in the Everglades where their flight crashed 35 years earlier. A yellow flash. They have two sons and live in Dade City now, near Tampa. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | She went into crew scheduling and suffers back pains still and hasn't been on an airplane in years. I mean, I was a single person with no family. As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. At 11:32, they aborted the landing, climbed to 2,000 feet and swung west over the Everglades to work out the problem. 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. Ways to check-in for your flight including online and on your mobile. Then came scattered parts from the number 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. Hansel owned a single engine Piper Comanche 250, registered as N7510P, that held four people, including the pilot. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. Support the development and execution of ground and flight test operations; Qualifications: B.S. Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 In the hospital, a nine-inch steel rod was inserted into the bone. 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 . Darrylle Becker 3/16/43 It didn't light. Most of what we talked about on the return to the airport was speculation on our part as to how the plane crashed, not why it crashed. Off I went to check with the FAA Flight Service Station. 103 passengers and crew members died in the crash or shortly thereafter and 75 passengers/crew survived. Barry L. Mancuso 10/19/44 We had a habit of informally gathering at the clubhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings to down a few beers and catch up on all the news that had any impact on us. 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. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 "I thought I would fall apart," she told a newspaper in 1975. You could hear the cry of death. 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. [5]:2729, A company employeetechnical officer Angelo Donadeo, 47, returning to Miami from an assignment in New Yorkaccompanied the flight crew for the journey, but was officially an off-duty, "nonrevenue passenger". Whether youre looking for a new reading nook or a rare find, here are all the local shops were booking it to. Makeshift tailgate strip clubs, dog poop versus machete matches and a whole lot alligators in unwanted now = new Date Now it was her turn. 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. Thirty minutes later, Leonhard and his passengers suddenly burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass. An original floor board from Flight 401 remains in the archives at History Miami in South Florida. [5]:4 This altitude alert, designed to warn the pilots of an inadvertent deviation from the selected altitude, went unnoticed by the crew. 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. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. Each year on December 29th, I spend a little time thinking about that silhouetted L1011 heading west over Opa locka Airport. Walker's body is still fairly intact. The captain, along with one of two flight crew members, two of 10 flight attendants, and 97 of 163 passengers, died; 75 . [14], During 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 aboard other L-1011s (including, in particular, N318EA). It seemed to help. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. He saw a man, sitting in the water with a neck injury, trying to remain upright. 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. That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. I really do think I can gig some frogs if I had to. The majority of this equipment was fitted into Eastern's L-1011 N318EA while it was being assembled in Palmdale. While the Flight Crew tried to troubleshoot the faulty indicator, the steering yoke was accidentally nudged, causing a function of the autopilot to begin a . The point of this entire story is to simply tell you that yes - planes can be haunted. Then, on Saturday, December 29, a fleet of over 100 airboats carried survivors, their families and others to the crash site for a special memorial. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. 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). She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa, Stephanie Stanich. Silvan Karpen 5/23/28 Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. Ron Infantino and his late wife, Lilly, on their wedding day; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. 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. "He was just a guy out there frogging and minding his own business who knew he had to help people in trouble. Wait a minute, he said. Moe Lustig 7/16/23 The mud of the Everglades may have blocked wounds sustained by survivors, preventing them from bleeding to death. Flight 401 may refer to: Iberia Airlines Flight 401, crashed on 5 May 1965. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. She had no first-aid kit. "The temperature is in the low 70s, and it's beautiful out there tonight." Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 Jesus Lorenzo 4/26/37 The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | It seemed to be miles off course. 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. 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. It didn't look as if anyone could have possibly survived the crash, yet 75 people did. [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. The strange tales of the ghostly airmen of Flight of 401 circulated in the airline community. Tuesday. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Janice Testa 9/12/52 I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. Charles Kuchenbrod 7/16/30 Follow my voice!. 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. Kenneth Michael Mazonne 3/27/44 Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. I guess their clothes got blown off them.". He can't remember anyone's name now. Leonhard discovered a hole in the bushes, roughly circular in shape and a little larger than the mouth of a culvert pipe. MIAMI - Thursday marks 50 years since Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades. [4] It was also the first hull loss and fatal crash of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The flight should have taken around 18 hours. He'd get that look. 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. This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! Copyright 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. He shut down the engine again to listen. It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. "They gave us six months off and then we were expected to be 'over it. I was coping with someone who was disabled. However, in the years that followed, two of the pilots on that fatal flight, Bob Loft and Don Repo, would begin appearing on other Eastern Airlines flights. Pick up your airboat and meet me at the Twenty Mile Boat Ramp. He sold 13 in a month. The captain had ordered that the landing gear be lowered in. Perhaps the most extraordinary and credible research into the ghost phenomenon ever documented is the so-called "Ghosts of Flight 401."On December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp.Read the accident report (PDF). This quote, which was obviously a joke, was presented in the Ghost of Flight 401 as fact. The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | "I consider the survivors 75 miracles. The Ghost of Flight 401. It was rare for commercial airliners to fly westbound directly overhead Opa locka Airport at such a relatively low altitude. [5]:3, Loft, who was working the radio during this leg of the flight, told the tower that they would discontinue their approach to their airport and requested to enter a holding pattern. "I could get it running," he says, fighting for breath. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. Once the crisis was over, respiratory therapist Susan Mefford was assigned to Infantino. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. (It was later expanded to a much larger area either later that same day or the next day.). The breakup of the fuselage had freed it from its stowage and activated its inflation mechanism. A dramatization of the jetliner crash into the Florida Everglades in December 1972, and the rescue of seventy-three passengers (103 died), made up primarily of recognizable TV personalities plus famed bandleader Artie Shaw in his TV-movie debut. The crash occurred while the entire flight crew was preoccupied with . One hundred and one lives were lost that late . About a year after the crash of Flight 401, she told me that one of the flight attendants who had survived the crash had come back to work at Eastern, but was assigned to the executive secretarial pool while she recovered from her physical injuries and tried to cope with her mental anguish. Those words guided Leonhard as his 14-foot patrol airboat bulldozed through dense walls of water-anchored grass. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. '," she says now. The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. Seventy-five miraculously survived. It was a solemn and sobering return flight. It was a heart-to- heart bond. This crash also was the basis for the earlier TV movie. Luis Bancroft 10/10/48 I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401. 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 cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. He was trapped beneath the water. Flight 401 - Flight Log | Jorge Gonzalez 1/16/38 Raposas survivors became upset. What happened next must have happened very quickly. On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Flight 401 from New York to Miami took off from JFK Airport at 9:20 pm. Anyway, the statute of limitations has long since passed. Sadly, she did not survive. 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. Two survivors died later as a result of . In the end, it appears that the source of the stories was an article in an issue of the Flight Safety Foundation. Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. 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. He cranked up the engine and moved toward the sound. Below is a list of those on board, according . Once you become stuck in the glades, you could be there for a long, long, time.. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. Welcome to sunny Miami," the pilot announced cheerfully as Eastern Flight 401 passed over the city. He had logged 280 hours in the L-1011. Bernard A. Goldfuss 11/2/22 Bud waved the helicopter toward a nearby levee. That left two seats open. On the night of December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 took off from New York and headed towards Miami, Florida. 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. 35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back. At 820ft (250m) along the wreckage trail, the outer section of the starboard wing tore off, gouging a 59-foot-long (18m) crater in the soft ground as it did so. [9] All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. 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! [15][16] Gossip regarding the sighting of the spirits of Don Repo and Bob Loft spread throughout Eastern Air Lines to the extent that Eastern's management warned employees that they could be dismissed if caught spreading ghost stories. Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. 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. Well launch from there.. . At 11:32 p.m., Capt. Inside the planes cockpit, the crew was trying to slide in a replacement bulb, a roughly two-square-inch all-in-one light assembly unit covered by a translucent green plastic lens, valued at $12 altogether. The area I was about to go in was uncharted territory for me, Leonhard said. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after taking off from Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo. Isell Delgado 1/23/25 Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. Hey! Rochelle Rubin 1/5/48 (she was the first victim discovered by the search team Salvatore Carfizzi 7/15/15 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. Bud no longer worked as a game warden - his day job was laying carpet. Then the commuter airline folded. The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. Instead of landing in . On Dec. 3, Southern Airboat and other organizations also plan to honor Bud and the victims and survivors of Eastern Flight 401 with a service and a barbecue in Miami. Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts. I was a kid, 21 years old. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Raposa, Beverly | 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. There were bodies that were naked, which we all figured occurred because they had been flung out of the protected environmental cocoon of the L1011 into 200 mph winds when the fuselage broke up. Mom apparently worked closely with that flight attendant. the passenger manifest) It wouldn't take much.". 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. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. [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. I diplomatically told James that I couldn't take possession of the large pieces of wreckage. The plane was crossing over the Everglades on Dec. 29, 1972 . 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." Dummett hopes that the event will inspire a permanent memorial to Eastern Flight 401, similar to the ValuJet Memorial off the Tamiami Trail in the Everglades. The flight is referenced as part of the Bob Welch song "The Ghost of Flight 401" on his 1979 album Three Hearts. 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. He had a broken arm and some cuts and scrapes, but no other visible wounds, Leonhard said. An adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister wrote on Facebook that the plane was shot down, the Associated Press reports. In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. The hours passed, and still no rescuers had arrived. 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. Ruiz, 63, of West Miami-Dade, still has aches and pains but returned to flying until Eastern folded in 1991. employees and their immediate families of the Promoter and its related bodies corporate and registered travel companions of employees of the Promoter and its related bodies corporate. theYear = now.getYear() The aircraft was completely demolished, with wreckage, bodies, and survivors strewn over a wide area. His right arm was badly hurt. Get the latest flight sales and travel reviews straight to your inbox. The flying safety was even more compromised because it was slightly hazy which reduced visibility to seven to ten miles over the Everglades. Speculation at the club was rampant which is to be expected from a bunch of pilots. Hey!" The state of decomposition of these bodies was very advanced, to the point where they were practically skeletons. In the photograph below, here is the listing of who is who. "Your body could be stripped naked if you're thrown out through an opening, or your body could be relatively intact if you were in part of the aircraft that 'fluttered' down to the surface" because. The most accurate account of the crash of Flight 401 was authored by a journalist from the Miami Herald, Rob Elder. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. My guess is that the L1011 essentially did a flat or horizontal cartwheel and tore itself apart. He was 79. About Flight 401 | If you hear my voice, come toward me. Theyd been married only 20 days and were returning from their honeymoon. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. 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. Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived. 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