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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. 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. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 [8], In all, 75 survived the crash67 of the 163 passengers and eight of the 10 flight attendants. After the crash, a . Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute | If cities had soundtracks, none would sound quite like Nashville. "Welcome to Miami," the pilot announced during the descent at 11:30. Below is a list of those on board, according . Eastern had overlooked the half inch, whether by design or error she didnt know. 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. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. No more clothes on his body .". Salvatore Carfizzi 7/15/15 Contained Within. 3h 15m. Then zip, the light was out.". 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. Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 Theyre not going to find us, an anxious passenger whispered. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. Angelo Donadeo, whose survival may be the most remarkable of all, says the only thing still bothering him is his back, but not very much. 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. The crew of Flight 401 taken aboard the jet earlier on the day of the crash: the flight attendants had gathered at the tail of the plane. Rosemary Mancuso 10/31/49 High in the distant black sky, beyond the harsh glare cast by his headlamp, was a circling star: the searchlight of a Coast Guard helicopter hovering over the crash site eight miles away. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 The control tower at Opa locka shut down at 11pm each evening back then so the L1011 had to be in contact with Miami Approach Control, since we assumed it was ultimately being vectored for an approach to MIA. 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! Anne Ponte 1/7/16 They had drowned because their seats landed with their heads tilted down into the swamp water. Ruiz, 63, of West Miami-Dade, still has aches and pains but returned to flying until Eastern folded in 1991. 2h 48m. The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | Wrong. That's why Hansel wanted me to fly; it would be my license that got revoked if we got caught, not his! "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. /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 . Donadeo, an Eastern Airlines technical specialist on L-1011 aircraft, was returning to Miami that night from a trouble- shooting assignment in New York. 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. He saw openings in the sawgrass created by sliding chunks of broken airplane. Several survivors tracked him down to thank him personally. Officially, 103 passengers and crew died. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 The article covered the story of an Eastern L-1011 ferry flight where the jet lost one of the two operating engines and the pilot had a challenging landing. "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. Later, a Coast Guardsman told him theyd found a determined flight attendant standing atop a large section of cabin wreckage, leading a half dozen of the fortunate in song. "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. Jose Garcia 6/4/47 The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. 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. 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. "Having money ruined my life," he said. "There are is so much friction, so many arguments. 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. Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. I probably did too, I'm sure." As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. The 52-year-old flight engineer was one of 101 people who'd died Dec. 29, 1972 when Eastern Flight 401, packed with holiday travelers, slammed into the Everglades 19 miles northwest of Miami. Beverly Raposa doesn't mind flying. The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401. Stick with the book. 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. 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. He looks at the photo of the primitive camp he built in the cypress trees so many years ago when he was young and strong and could hunt and gig frogs and look at the stars. She put in 11 more years with United before retiring. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. Hey!" It happened 40 years ago today on a cold dark night in the Everglades, a brand new "Whisperliner" jumbo jet. Miami International Airport Sighting | Some still feel the pain. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, crashed on 29 December 1972. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). Copyright 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. What happened next must have happened very quickly. . The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air 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. ", Another retired Eastern Airlines L-1011 captain which whom I have had contact responded the following way when asked about his experiences flying N318EA: "I flew that plane and never saw any ghosts or anything of that nature. He needed a respiratory therapist -- who, it turned out, needed him, too. Loretta E. Bloodgood 10/13/15 After we visually established where the crash site was located, we could see the initial ground contact point and the distribution of the wreckage quite clearly. They headed for the flash. [5]:3, The flight was routine until 23:32, when the airplane began its approach into Miami International Airport. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. The three major sections of the fuselagethe most intact of which was the tail assemblylay in the mud towards the end of the wreckage trail. "He was naked. Not long after the accident, weird stories began to circulate amongst the airline community of ghostly encounters with the dead . Rose Kashman 9/22/15 [5]:4 In the next 70 seconds, the airplane lost only 250ft (76m), but this was enough to trigger the altitude warning C-chord chime located under the engineer's workstation. 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. Rose Lina Zollo 7/13/43. This killed the First Officer instantly. Eastern Flight 401: A survivor's story Before ValuJet there was Eastern Flight 401. Rosario Messina 2/29/26 Back row: Pat Ghyssels, Trudy Smith, Adrianne Hamilton, Mercy Ruiz. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. 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. 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. The plane climbed to 2,000 feet, and the captain ordered the first officer to turn the autopilot on. It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami. We could also see a few other aircraft flying into the restricted airspace. Flipping through the pages, Bud smiles for the first time in hours. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. Thomas Ponte 10/24/11 Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. Though Leonhard was only a rookie, the sight of death was not unfamiliar to him. in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or related subject area Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. B738. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other. It was somewhere between 11:30 pm and 11:35 pm, a fact that I specifically remember because I took the time to look at my wristwatch and comment to Bill. How about we start with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?. 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!. We went deeper and deeper, until wed gone about 50 yards. This crash also was the basis for the earlier TV movie. [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. Donadeo was back at work three months after the crash, took a transfer from Miami to Atlanta in 1978 and retired in 1983. 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. He had lost contact with his frogging helper, Ray, too. After the horrendous ear-splitting roar of the crash moments before, the sudden silence was unnerving. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. It became his navigation beacon. "The three of us toast to life on that day every year.". Infantino also won a large legal settlement and lost everything. [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). NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others. 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. "I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it." "That's what really gets me. He was one of those rare south Florida individuals who owned a ton of hunting rifles and lived for the deer hunting season so he could go out on his air boat and hunt scrawny deer in the Everglades. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. But it kept jamming. Clutching his walking stick, Bud shuffles past a mango tree into the backyard. Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. That section of the Everglades is a tangle of sawgrass, tree islands, canals and levees. When the main part of the fuselage hit the ground, it continued to move through the grass and water, breaking up as it went. 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. I don't question what the Lord does.". Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . Were still at 2,000, right? the first officer asked. [5]:9 The landing gear could have been manually lowered, nonetheless. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. Grand Canyon Disaster + . That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. You could hear the cry of death. That subsides. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 by Gary Leff on December 29, 2022. Part 243 - PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION. It would be hard to make up a plausible story like Ronald Infantino's -- too sad, too joyful. 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 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. Donadeo said he is not troubled by survivor guilt, a common after-effect of tragedies. Hansel Meighen died on April 15, 1999, and is buried in Ft. Pierce, Florida. "[5]:2324, In response to this and other accidents during the 1970s, many airlines started crew resource management training for their pilots. His flight crew included First Officer Albert John "Bert" Stockstill, 39, who had 5,800 hours of flying experience (with 306 of them in the L-1011), and Flight Engineer Donald Louis "Don" Repo, 51, who had 15,700 hours of flying experience, with 53 of them in the L-1011. "It has always bothered me that there was nothing done with 401," said Dummett, a retired Miami-Dade firefighter and founder of the American Airboat Search and Rescue Association, now living in Lake Wales. [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. She had nothing. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 Let them not be forgotten. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 passengers crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Ron Infantino and his late wife, Lilly, on their wedding day; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. They failed to notice that the autopilot had been disconnected inadvertently and, subsequently, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. 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. Caridad Fermina Hernandez 10/11/32 THE CRASH OF FLIGHT 401 20 YEARS LATER SURVIVORS LIVE WITH PAIN, MEMORY, Author: ARNOLD MARKOWITZ Herald Staff Writer Copyright (c) 1992 The Miami Herald. Now that the crash site was again open to the public, he had gone out into the Everglades to scout the area on his air boat. Nery Palma 7/12/34 Photos: AL DIAZ | MIAMI HERALD. theYear = theYear + 1900 The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. 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. James Yandolino 3/7/52 Seventy-five miraculously survived. "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. It seemed to help. "He's an airboater.". [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. "Remember what the doctor said," Nancy chimes in. This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! Allen M. Stark 8/11/49 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. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. . That was the first time I had heard of the crash. He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Colonel. When she came to, she was still belted into her seat, tipped to one side, hanging six feet above the swamp. This is the story about the night a jumbo jet landed among the pig frogs and alligators, the cottonmouth snakes and yellow-crowned night herons, in the Everglades. He has fallen backwards and his arms are spread apart. 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. [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. 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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 4 | . She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | Walker's body is still fairly intact. She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. Miguel Junco 8/28/42 Dead bodies hung, lay and floated everywhere I looked. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | [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). 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. Then came scattered parts from the number 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. At approximately 2340R 29 December 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed 1011, with 178 persons on board, crashed in the Everglades 18 miles west of Miami International Airport. 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. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. Julia Lustig 5/30/25 Check-in; . 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