Please dont leave me! Infantino yelled. This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Anyway, the statute of limitations has long since passed. 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. It took a while, but the female passenger eventually calmed down. He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. Cite this article: . Accura Media Group LLC, 30 Dec. 2013. She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. How about we start with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?. All photos by Southern Airboat, who coordinated the event. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. They were heading his way. The original witness so was distressed that several of the cabin crew had to forcibly restrain her. Stick with the book. Dunning, B. One of the flight attendants happened to glance at the window of an oven in the galley, and saw the face of a man looking back at her! Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. "I've tried to throw [the suitcase] away many times, but something always holds me back. It was the first accident involving a wide-bodied airliner, and the most deadly crash in the United States at that time. He needed a respiratory therapist -- who, it turned out, needed him, too. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. Oddly, he felt no pain. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53 Leonhard, Raposa, and Infantino never connected during the rescue operation, except for one tenuous bond that drew them together in spirit: the sound of a distant Christmas carol drifting throughthe night. Bill was a career police officer who had been exposed to death and trauma, but his comments really reflected an attitude of both wonder and sadness. The next morning, as was my usual Saturday routine, I drove to the Sun Flying club timing it to arrive at approximately 11am. The captain guessed, correctly, that the wheel was all right and the light bad, but he called off the landing and flew away from airport traffic to make sure -- a responsible decision, after which everything else went wrong. Eugene Schenker 6/24/30 "Having money ruined my life," he said. Sadly, she did not survive. They died. If you hear my voice, come toward me. Ghosts of Flight 401. His friend, of course, envisioned a Piper Cub or something small going down in a summer thunderstorm, not a state-of-the-art L-1011 carrying 200 passengers on a perfect winter night. Theyd been married only 20 days and were returning from their honeymoon. The following is a list of survivors and victims of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. None of them realized in the dark that they were gradually descending, as their attention was on debugging the landing gear indicator. Moe Lustig 7/16/23 Jesus Lorenzo 4/26/37 They headed for the flash. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. The actual crash was, in fact, true as reported; and there's never been any real doubt over what the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigators determined. I tried to keep hold of myself by showing up at work, but I couldn't concentrate.". On December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - Flight 401 - left New York and flew on a downward vector to Miami, Florida. By. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". In addition to commemorating Flight 401, the creative talent behind the exhibit is seeking to help survivors raise the funding needed to create a permanent large-scale memorial to Flight 401's victims and survivors in the City of Miami Springs, once home to a thriving Eastern Air Lines community. Wait a minute, he said. We could also see a few other aircraft flying into the restricted airspace. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. It didn't light. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. Don Repo survived long enough to reach the hospital, but he also proved to be too badly injured. Jose Garcia 6/4/47 The signal inside the cockpit had not illuminated as it should have. If you would like to contribute to this cause, donations can be made to: National Air Disaster Foundation (write "EAL 401 Memorial" on the check), You may also make donations by credit card on their website: www.PlaneSafe.org. The haunted aircraft components that harbored the flight engineer's benevolent ghost entered the hall of fame of 1970s urban legends. "He was just a guy out there frogging and minding his own business who knew he had to help people in trouble. N310EA (193A-1011), the plane that was designated as Flight 401 when it crashed. 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. They were both 26 years old. The bent, white-haired man in the mirror has a bad heart and breathes from an oxygen machine, hasn't been frogging in a coon's age, and hasn't been in his airboat since, well, he can't remember. He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. . Source Wikimedia Commons, Jon Proctor March 1972. Stephanie Rae Stanich 11/10/48 A mass of interesting testimony was produced as a result. Definition: Here is something interesting that we discovered during our research. Flight 401 left John F. Kennedy at 9:20 p.m. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. She went and got another flight attendant, who came and saw the same thing. Eastern used the Bowmar/Calrod brand. 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. I really do think I can gig some frogs if I had to.". The third, Repo, used a porthole to try and get a visual on the gear. In his mind, he's still a strapping young fellow with big muscles. "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. Whatever the case, whether from real testimony or a desire to entertain, the legend of the ghosts of Flight 401 helped to make sure the victims and survivors are not forgotten. From an aviation perspective, this was no small feat. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. It marked the 50th anniversary of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 disaster. 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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | Im sure they all ran away. She spit the words out quickly, doing her best to sound convincing. Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. Under the command of Captain Robert Albin Loft, an expert navigator rated 50th in seniority at Eastern. The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. Braulio Corretjer 1/5/28 It didnt sound like they were in midair anymore. People observe a candlelight vigil in memory of victims of a plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. He was a devoted husband of sixty-two years to his first wife Martha (nee Regan) and beloved husband of his second wife Sue Johnson.Charlie was a loving son to the late Junius and Rachel Johnson, much loved father of the late Tracy Johnson and dear brother to the late Jeane Johnson Stanfield. Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of victims of a flight that crashed Sunday, and said they were sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as . Lockheed L-1011, aircraft 310, flight 401 headed from New York to Miami on Dec. 29, 1972. It was rare for commercial airliners to fly westbound directly overhead Opa locka Airport at such a relatively low altitude. Bud saw bodies strapped into seats upside down in the water. They go deep into the heart of the Florida Everglades to contact the victims' ghosts and find out what really happened that fateful night in 1972. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. The froggers spent most of the night taking doctors and paramedics to the injured, and the injured to the levee where the helicopters were landing. My former brother-in-law, James Anderson, was an avid air boat owner and hunting enthusiast. Theyll find us eventually., Raposa had the survivors scoot together, sitting back to back so they could stay warm. Above (L to R): Martin Siminerio in hospital, two file photos from the Miami Herald of survivor Xiomara Casada at Palmetto General with her infant, Christina, in a Miami hospital. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 "We consider it the day our second life began," Christina Casado-Acorn, said of Dec. 29, 1972. Ghosts of Flight 401. Shortly after I arrived, one of my friends, Hansel Meighen, practically dragged me to his airplane and loudly announced that we were going to go fly out to the Everglades crash site. Author John G. Fuller claimed the whole book was true . The other 101 people on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 died quite horribly -- 98 in the Everglades where the airplane crashed, three later in hospitals. Maureen I. Chesler 10/12/47 If you like this programming, please become a member. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. Two years after the crash, a book called The Ghost of Flight 401 was published, claiming that there were many reported sightings of the pilot, who had most likely accidentally switched off the autopilot, and the flight engineer, who had missed the warning chime because he left his seat to investigate the issue with the landing gear light. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge Sunday . The pilot of this flight was so unnerved by all of this that he canceled the flight. "It survived that night, just like me. Beverly Raposa was a bubbly, 25-year-old flight attendant onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 from New York to Miami when the plane slammed into the Everglades at 225 miles per hour near midnight . Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 (3) 2022 TV-14. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. The plane was dropping from the sky at a rate of 200 feet each minute. The flight engineer on duty during this flight was a personal friend to Repo and instantly recognized the face as that of his deceased friend. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 4 | Flight 401 - Autopilot indicator | On the night of December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 took off from New York and headed towards Miami, Florida. Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. He said that every time an appearance of the ghosts had been entered into a plane's logbook, the logbook was suddenly replaced with a new blank one. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 A crawlspace beneath a cockpit is one thing, a galley oven is quite another. Kobe Bryant, 41 ans, un des plus clbres joueurs de basket-ball de la NBA, avait pris sa retraite en 2016.. bord de l'hlicoptre se trouvaient galement sa fille de treize ans, Gianna, qui jouait . 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. Mama, heat up the frying pan. That section of the Everglades is a tangle of sawgrass, tree islands, canals and levees. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. Podcast transcript | Subscribe. Isell Delgado 1/23/25 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. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 Many of the survivors were also stripped of their clothes and this contributed to medical problems with all the bacteria in the Everglades water and the relatively cold temperatures that night. 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. An aerial view of the crash site; a swath of the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Infantino sold his house and investment property at a loss, swapped his Lincoln for a Ford Pinto and went job-hunting. ", This pilot added, however, that he "flew 318 several times in the late 80s and never saw any unnatural apparitions - some weird looking people, but no ghosts. This killed the First Officer instantly. One time, a working flight attendant insisted that she saw an engineer working to repair an oven. An orange glow suddenly lit up out in the marsh toward Miami, he recalled. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the, Hospice of Southern Maine 390 US Route One, Scarborough, ME 04074. , Elder, R. "Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts." FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Forty years have passed since Eastern Flight 401 slammed down in the Everglades, yet no memorial has been raised to remember the 101 people who perished that night. Trudy Jean Smith, age 73, of Dallas, Georgia, formerly of Deport, Texas, died November 29, 2020. At night, when he sits on his porch, he can hear the wup-wup bellows of the pig frogs and the heh-heh-heh chatter of the leopard frogs beyond the trees. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. I'd be able to do the right thing today.". Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 He entered Collegiate Prep in New Haven, Conn. Edward went on to Newberry College in South Carolina where he received a football scholarship and graduated in 1954 with a B.S. Hey!" Web. Seventy-five miraculously survived. And so, with no actual ghost reports having been made by any actual people, and no haunted components from Flight 401 having been installed in other planes, it follows that the alleged orders from Eastern Air Lines management to remove said components never happened either; as didn't the mechanics who performed the work and made cautious reports of it to Fuller. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 Anniversary message - George Gaudiello December 29, 2021, 11:22 am. The movie is fairly innacurate and over-dramitized. Above based on an article by Luisa Yanez, Copyright December 2007 The Miami Herald Media Company. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. He carried survivors to safety and made them as comfortable as he could. If one more time he could harvest a mess of frog legs in the Everglades. Captain Loft had been with the company for over 32 years; a total of 29,700 flight hours. Johnson, Charles | Jerrold Solomon, who had walked away from the crash unscathed, flew home to New York three days later. Theyre not going to find us, an anxious passenger whispered. "When I tried to prop him up it felt like every bone in his body was broken.". But it kept jamming. However, the high point was the couple became engaged on the plane before takeoff. Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 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. Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020, l'hlicoptre Sikorsky S-76 de Kobe Bryant s'crase prs de Calabasas, en Californie (tats-Unis).Les neuf occupants de l'appareil sont tus sur le coup. Flight 401 - Flight Log | To me, it seemed as though the wreckage, still covered in Everglades muck and debris, was part of the humanity that had suffered because of that crash. Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 Don Repo and Bob Loft. The Ghost of Flight 401 was a book of nearly pure fiction, as was the TV movie that followed it. The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. 1 of 37. Richard J. Schulleri 1/3/43 Spectral looking people with manic laughs or clanking chains are another popular image people often have of ghosts or spirits. AlanNachmias 5/16/50 Talk to anyone about ghosts or hauntings, and invariably images of abandoned old houses with dilapidated features or conditions will spring to mind. Photos: AL DIAZ | MIAMI HERALD. However, we had one advantage that members of the general public didn't have - we had access to airplanes. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 16 Mar. The first time Walter Simonton saw the Everglades, the desolation overwhelmed him as he grieved for his mother, whose plane was swallowed up by the wetlands. 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). Lost - Passengers and Crew (Name and Birthdate), Elise Grace Agate 9/3/42 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Everglades on a moonless night on December 29, 1972. Trudy is survived by her nephews, Jason Mooney and wife Annette, Jeremy Ogelsby and wife Amy; great-nephews, Nathan Mooney and wife Courtney, Caleb Mooney and wife Savannah, and Brandon Ogelsby; great-nieces, Laura Mooney and Alaura Ogelsby;2 great-great-nephews and 2 great-great-nieces; cousins, Jacque Wirta and Jack Moncrief. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. Fuller's claims that Eastern executives tried to bully their employees into silence about the ghosts led them to nearly file suit against the publisher, but Borman nixed the plan, rightly feeling that doing so would give the book even more publicity. He saw a man standing, shocked, in knee-deep water. 35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back. With the autopilot engaged, the malfunctioning light was dismantled by two members of the crew. The stories began four years later with the publication of John G. Fuller's 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401, which revealed that those four years had been filled with incidents of flight crew being startled by apparitions of Loft and Repo appearing on board other Eastern Air Lines planes. Please email corrections, additions, photos or any other information you would like to have posted here. Tower, this is Eastern 401, it looks like were going to have to circle. The cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. Edward moved to Scarborough, Maine to expand Winchesters presence in Northern New England and the Maritime provinces. I was coping with someone who was disabled. A Coast Guard helicopter flew toward them, sweeping the marsh with a bright searchlight, and then turned away. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. 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. We also offer excellent benefits and perks, including medical, dental, vision, a 401(k)-retirement plan, holiday pay, paid time off . A pale glow lightened the sky above Miami more than 40 miles away. 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 problem had consumed all their mental energy. 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. A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. At no time would officials of the company allow or condone any attempt to investigate the reports. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was on its final approach into Miami shortly before midnight 50 years ago this month when a single light bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel failed to illuminate. Whenever someone told Fuller such a story, they frequently asked him not to use their real name, out of fear of reprisal from the company; thus, the book is full of untraceable sources and unverifiable claims. Wreckage site of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. Frequent Business Traveler. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. Adapted from Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases by Bob H. Lee. Ethel L. Jackson 3/8/08 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. A lot of the people I saw were naked. Born in Seymour, Conn. on May 8, 1929, to Julius and Mary Kaslo Ulrich. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. 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. Whenever either Loft or Repo make an appearance, they tend to be life-like and look like just another person. On the night of Dec. 29, 1972, holiday parties were in full gear. Below Right - Gatherers take a moment to honor Robert 'Bud' Marquis. Feel the warmth going down.. Now for the big decisions - who gets to ride with us? Riding with him were two Federal Aviation Administration officials. His wife said his ashes would be spread over the crash site in the Everglades that ''he loved so much,'' at a later date. My direct and indirect contact with Eastern Flight 401 didn't end on December 30, 1972. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. It was broken in the crash and he avoids putting any strain on it -- good advice for anyone his age, 67. March 21, 2017 But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. One of the world's newest and flashiest airliners, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was making one of its first flights for Eastern Air Lines on December 29, 1972. 21 Mar 2017. Repo was dead. He'd stay calm, look at the stars for direction, think things through, then crank up the airboat engine and find his way back to the Tamiami Trail. 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. 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