in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or related subject area Flashlights are now standard equipment near jumpseats, and all jumpseats are outfitted with shoulder harnesses. Flight 401 - Autopilot indicator | He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. 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. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . 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. The last thing Raposa remembered seeing before she was knocked out was a waterfall of colors. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 Warren Terry 2/16/34 Still, $50,000 will have to be raised in order to erect the memorial. As Stockstill started another turn, onto 180, he noticed the discrepancy. He carried survivors to safety and made them as comfortable as he could. It seemed to be miles off course. Eduardo Jaramillo 8/2/32 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 on the tarmac before takeoff on Dec. 29, 1972; Photography by Jon Proctor, I called out to a Coast Guardsman who was working nearby to come and help me out, Leonhard said. There were 176 people aboard the state-of-the-art Lockheed L-1011, which was nicknamed the. Lucille Cilles 1/30/24 That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. Flight 401 - First Response | Raposa popped the release buckle and fell into the marsh, landing on her hands and knees. Jerome Becker 6/27/39 I was coping with someone who was disabled. Good for me! Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | 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. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. The silence was broken only by the intermittent croaking of bullfrogs and the occasional rustle of tall reeds as an unseen creature passed through them. By 1 a.m., the rookie warden had launched his airboat. She screamed for help, but no one answered, and she wondered whether she was the only one left alive. He shut down the engine again to listen. A jumbo jet crashed in the Everglades north of the Tamiami Trial, his sergeant said. A light on the instrument panel the first officer was monitoring failed to illuminate green to confirm that the nose landing gear was extended and locked. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. I wish I had that kind of money today instead of 20 years ago. She was killed. It's broken, just like him. Fourteen survivors had various degrees of burns. Moe Lustig 7/16/23 Colonel. The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401. Three women on the jetliner's tail, about 20 feet above the water, begged Bud to save them. Elisa Ruth Romero 5/28/44 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. [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. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. Other than those observations, I don't recall much more from that flight. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. Susana Luna 8/29/29 An elevation of only eight feet felt like being on a hilltop in the Everglades. He is completely burned. Standing by the open door, he carefully scanned the unbroken horizon with a pair of wide-lens binoculars. [4], Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a regularly scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, to Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. On the night of December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 took off from New York and headed towards Miami, Florida. Email subscription; Email subscription; . . At 11:32, they aborted the landing, climbed to 2,000 feet and swung west over the Everglades to work out the problem. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. Carmen Jorge 7/7/46 In recent months Canti and others have made pilgrimages to Bud's screened door to hear his story. The TriStar's port outer wing structure struck the ground first, followed by the number1 engine and the port main undercarriage. He felt helpless, hearing what sounded like hundreds of voices coming at him from different directions. This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! Im sure they all ran away. She spit the words out quickly, doing her best to sound convincing. She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. [26], Flight 401 is mentioned in the TV show Supernatural Season 1 Episode 4 named Phantom Traveler's. I had initially intended to fly a little above 2,000 feet to avoid the restrictions, but I ended up closer to 3,000 feet to avoid the other aircraft. 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. "I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it." The aircraft was destroyed. The bronze plaques are being donated as well as the granite base. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. He also likes not to think about those days. If you hear my voice, come toward me. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. In unison, we looked up to see the silhouette of a Lockheed L1011 flying westbound at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. It is 12 feet long and 7 feet across. Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. Donald Stanley Casadona 7/16/38 He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa. The time was 9:20 p.m. Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. "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 has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. Then zip, the light was out.". There were 75 survivors. His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. The point of this entire story is to simply tell you that yes - planes can be haunted. 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. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. Ever the good Catholic, she crossed herself in the dark and silently prayed, Oh God, please let that be true.. Ruiz, 63, of West Miami-Dade, still has aches and pains but returned to flying until Eastern folded in 1991. Investigators believe the autopilot switched modes when the captain accidentally leaned against the yoke while turning to speak to the flight engineer, who was sitting behind and to the right of him. [5]:30[6]:99 The aircraft was fleet number 310, and the 10th TriStar delivered to the carrier. Suddenly, he stopped. 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. I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. That area was off limits to hunters and others for a number of months while federal investigators searched the area for clues to the crash. Silvan Karpen 5/23/28 Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 02:18, intentional infliction of emotional distress, "Airliner carrying 167 crashes in Everglades", "Giant jetliner goes down in 'gator infested swamp", "Eastern Airlines, Inc. L-1011, N310EA, Miami, Florida, December 29, 1972", "Robert "Bud" Marquis's Obituary on San Francisco Chronicle", "PART TWO: THE CRASH "It felt like a wild rollercoaster ride", "A Lesson on the Importance of Crew Resource Management", "Lessons Learnt from the Crash of Eastern 401", Eastern Flight 401 The Story of the Crash, The Crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401-Epilogue, ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 N310EA Everglades, FL, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401&oldid=1140849286, This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, at 02:18. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Beverly Raposa doesn't mind flying. A light in the Sky I guess their clothes got blown off them.". Eight minutes earlier, 401 had been descending on its landing approach after an uneventful flight from New York. The hours passed, and still no rescuers had arrived. ----------------------------------------------. I don't see any reason to worry about what fate has brought. Flight 401 - Flight Log | Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 "Just his upper body can be seen.". It looked as though the L1011 was in a shallow left turn and dragged the left wing tip in the swamp. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Donald Louis Repo 5/10/21 Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 Loise Shackelford attended. Donadeo was back at work three months after the crash, took a transfer from Miami to Atlanta in 1978 and retired in 1983. 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. Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. 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. 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. The crew members, however, were focused on fixing the wheel-light indicator. Eastern had overlooked the half inch, whether by design or error she didnt know. Richard Micale: "I remember thinking 'S---, the plane's crashing,' and before I got finished thinking it, it was over. At 11:42 p.m., the first officer said, We did something to the altitude.. The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. The fact that the tail assemblyrear fuselage, number2 tail-mounted engine, and remains of the empennagefinally came to rest substantially further forward than other major sections, was probably the result of the number 2 engine continuing to deliver thrust during the actual breakup of the aircraft. 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. Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. 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. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 passengers crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. 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. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. 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. The flying club tie-down area and ramp were immediately adjacent to the Sun Line operation and I often was called upon to fuel aircraft on the Sun Flying Club property. [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. ", Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute. He wants to show them how to gig frogs. At least they thought they had. Sadly, she did not survive. I dont know this for sure, but I seem to remember he was the last survivor rescued.. Thomas Ponte 10/24/11 Funny how people scream for God at a time like that. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | "Hey, what's happening here?" 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. 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. Grand Canyon Disaster + . 2023-Feb-14. Follow my voice!. After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. And now, no one was flying the plane. 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. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70 He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Speculation at the club was rampant which is to be expected from a bunch of pilots. That was the first time I had heard of the crash. "He swore that Frank Borman had paid him to come to Miami and perform an exorcism on #318. Seventy-five miraculously survived. 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. The four-month-old L-1011 TriStar jet crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972 at 11:42 p.m., caused . Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed. [6]:107108 Donadeo, the lone survivor of the four flight-deck occupants, recovered from his injuries. "That's what really gets me. Everything else was in small pieces spread in a general southwest or south-by-southwest direction for 1,500 to 2,000 feet. Sometimes, back when there were no cell phones or GPS electronics to help navigate, he'd get lost at night. 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! [6]:101 The pilots cycled the landing gear, but still failed to get the confirmation light. The Infantinos were exhausted from celebrating Christmas with Rons parents in New York. As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. His hunting escapades on his air boat meant that he was very familiar with the area where Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. As the plane descended on its final landing approach to Miami International Airport, a cheerful voice boomed over the cabins loudspeaker address system: Welcome to sunny Miami, the captain announced. "I thought I would fall apart," she told a newspaper in 1975. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. He was more than 25 miles away. A lot of the people I saw were naked. 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. [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. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. 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. Hansel owned a single engine Piper Comanche 250, registered as N7510P, that held four people, including the pilot. Possible Curse of Seminole Indians | The Everglades is flat, covered with tall saw grass and immersed in water that ranges from a few inches deep to three to four feet deep in some areas. Get the latest flight sales and travel reviews straight to your inbox. This guy had been hurled from the plane like a human cannonball. 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. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. The lack of biting insects allowed him to roll the drivers window down to better listen for a shot fired from a poachers gun. You can see the brand name on the oven instruction plate. 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. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. 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. 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. Hey! Then he tells the story the best he can. The death toll at the time was the highest of any one-plane accident in U.S. civil aviation history. 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 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. The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? My guess is that the L1011 essentially did a flat or horizontal cartwheel and tore itself apart. 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 left wingtip banked into the marsh at 227 miles per hour. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. What songs will we sing? one passenger asked. Klaus Schenck 9/5/39 Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. 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. 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. Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 He was 79. Loretta E. Bloodgood 10/13/15 The night was a balmy 72 degrees, the mosquitoes surprisingly sparse. Footage of the incident appeared in the movie Days of Fury (1980), directed by Fred Warshofsky and hosted by Vincent Price. The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. Albert J. Stockstill 6/9/33 The Ghost of Flight 401. The experienced flight crew was distracted when the landing gear light failed to come on, which they believed was caused by a blown bulb. The story of the crash and its aftermath were documented in John G. Fuller's 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401. 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'. The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. The death toll per the final accident report was 99. Mary Carfizzi 11/3/19 In the end, it appears that the source of the stories was an article in an issue of the Flight Safety Foundation. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. Flight 401 was a short-haul flight to Miami. 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 Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 I don't question what the Lord does.". Flipping through the pages, Bud smiles for the first time in hours. Jorge Gonzalez 1/16/38 "Having money ruined my life," he said. I mean, I was a single person with no family. Helen Marie Chestnut 4/17/39 Let them not be forgotten. She was whipped. The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. 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