On a moonless night, in the beam of his head lamp, the frog eyes would glow like rubies. Sometime in midflight, passenger Ron Infantino switched seats with his wife, Lilly, after she returned from the bathroom. if (theYear < 1900) He survived, barely, with his right arm nearly severed, his left knee broken and his chest crushed. Today, she still has the small, Eastern Airlines-issued cream-colored suitcase she carried the night of the crash. He has fallen backwards and his arms are spread apart. He likes to think about those days. A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. ", 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. According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 I have lost contact with Bill Elliott. Leonhard put the car in park, cut the motor and stepped out. 35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back. She worked only briefly as a flight attendant after the crash. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40 Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. 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. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami.Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . His name showed up recently on a Web site (eastern401.googlepages.com) about the 35th anniversary of a tragedy that killed more than 100 passengers and traumatized dozens more. But we idled back around to double-check on them just in case.. The breakup of the fuselage had freed it from its stowage and activated its inflation mechanism. Pick up your airboat and meet me at the Twenty Mile Boat Ramp. Miami International Airport Sighting | Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. At the time, it was one of the worst civil aviation disasters the country had ever seen. Lilly leaned back in her seat, resting quietly. 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. This killed the First Officer instantly. The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. Patricia A. Ghyssels 3/31/45 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. 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. However, we had one advantage that members of the general public didn't have - we had access to airplanes. 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. But it kept jamming. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. The landing gear from Flight 401 at the crash site; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. He saw a man standing, shocked, in knee-deep water. 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. The flight was routine until 23:32 when the plane began its approach into Miami International Airport. Of five survivors The Herald located this week, three talked freely about Flight 401. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. Beverly Raposa stumbled out of the nightmarish apocalypse, hurt, disheveled and covered in clumps of dripping swamp grasses. Eventually, the investigations were concluded and most, but not all, of the wreckage was removed or salvaged from the Everglades. Lucille Cilles 1/30/24 Clutching his walking stick, Bud shuffles past a mango tree into the backyard. After retiring he volunteered with the Civil Air Patrol, his last rank was Lt. 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. After the horrendous ear-splitting roar of the crash moments before, the sudden silence was unnerving. "That's what really gets me. 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. North Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 7, 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 York to . Later that afternoon or evening, Bill Elliott came back to the clubhouse where we were all waiting for him so he could let us know what he did and saw. HONOLULU, FEB. 25 -- As investigators questioned the pilots and ground crew today, Coast Guard and Navy rescue workers recovered from the Pacific two seats and a 4-by-6-foot . [15][18] The reported hauntings were said to be seen only on the planes that used the spare parts. Ex-FBI agent: I saw angels at Flight 93 site. [5]:5. 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. Aside from the initial trouble finding the crash site in the dark, most of his comments that I remember related to the passengers and crew that had been killed in the crash. Luis Bancroft 10/10/48 A similar situation appeared in the Thai movie Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. It was a solemn and sobering return flight. As you may know, the mansion is an historic landmark in Miami, located just north of the airport it served as the location of the NTSB hearings into the crash. The jet bounced once, then hit again. I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. 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. 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. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | I didn't tell him that it felt really strange realizing that so much of the plane was still out in the glades. Develop, execute, and document the system verification plan for flight and representative hardware at the system level and validate the as-built system prior to launch. He was an aviation business student at Miami-Dade Community College then, and used some of his money to start a commuter airline. "I thought I would fall apart," she told a newspaper in 1975. Picture that in your mind. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. Janice Testa 9/12/52 The powers-that-be want them to . Warren Terry 2/16/34 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. He saw a man, sitting in the water with a neck injury, trying to remain upright. Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. Photos of the 35th anniversary memorial gathering at the crash site, December 29, 2007. [5]:3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Blackness. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. Lights in the Darkness: The crash of Eastern Air Lines flight 401 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. As Stockstill started another turn, onto 180, he noticed the discrepancy. My God, what do we do now? The Ghost of Flight 401 TV Movie 1978 1 h 40 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 617 YOUR RATING Rate Drama Mystery Thriller An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". Well launch from there.. [9] All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. That doesn't haunt me either . The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. 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. [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. That's why Hansel wanted me to fly; it would be my license that got revoked if we got caught, not his! That left two seats open. The rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. That was a miracle that is probably attributable to three factors: (1) the crash site was a soft, wet swamp; (2) there was no significant post-crash fire; and (3) the force of disintegration was directed horizontally and not vertically, flinging many survivors out into the swamp instead of subjecting them to fatal blunt force trauma which is characteristic of most airplane crashes. 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. The crew members, however, were focused on fixing the wheel-light indicator. He had lost contact with his frogging helper, Ray, too. Copyright 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. Below Left - In red, stewardess Beverly Raposa at the memorial. Shock had taken over. He felt a sense of mission as he looked out into the black swamp, knowing that his job required cunning and stealth. You could hear the cry of death. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. Anne Ponte 1/7/16 Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 Funny how people scream for God at a time like that. Thomas Ponte 10/24/11 All of us realized that many people had lost their lives and that there was a bit of mystery surrounding why a relatively new L1011 crashed into the Everglades on a clear, dark night. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? 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. PHOTO CREDIT: Patrick Farrell - Miami Herald Staff. His hunting escapades on his air boat meant that he was very familiar with the area where Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades. Raposa, Beverly | 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. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 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. "Hey, what's happening here?" Richard L. Marquis, a carpet-layer, saw it too. Also in attendance was Ron Infantino, David Kaplan and the Casado family. 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. Aground. The flight should have taken around 18 hours. 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. Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | Patricia George was on top of the coat closet. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. Then came scattered parts from the number 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. 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. Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. [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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 7 | Loft, Robert Albin | Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was on its way from New York to Miami on December 29th, 1972, with 13 crew and 163 passengers onboard. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. Part 243 - PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION. It was only then that it had hit him. After a few minutes they saw the lights of rescue helicopters, circling, searching, much too far east and south. Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. The point of this entire story is to simply tell you that yes - planes can be haunted. Below Right - Gatherers take a moment to honor Robert 'Bud' Marquis. You don't want to be in the water with me.". Two later died, leaving 75 survivors and 101 fatalities. Beverly Raposa switched seats from her regular position in the galley for a flight from New York to Miami. She was whipped. When Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed out of the sky over the Florida Everglades in December 1972 it was without a doubt one of the worst commercial air disasters in American history, with over 100 people losing their lives. 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. Get Alerts. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. Henry Nunez 8/18/23 It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. A trio of newly minted Rolls-Royce turbofan jet engines made a rumble that could barely be heard by the 163 passengers and 13 crew members seated inside the spacious cabin and reconfigured cockpit. Like a lot of other aspiring commercial pilots, I had had a checkered aviation career, having worked, among other things, as the full-time chief pilot of a regional oil company while attending college. He cranked up the engine and moved toward the sound. Two years after the crash, Anita and Franklin Kent's lives were taken up by endless doctor visits. 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. The only thing she was looking forward to on arrival in Miami was going to bed. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. Flight 401 Crash Site Hauntings |. Water saturated by jet fuel filled his boots, burning his legs. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. I was a kid, 21 years old. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Stick with the book. It's broken, just like him. Theyll find us eventually., Raposa had the survivors scoot together, sitting back to back so they could stay warm. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. Based on Fuller's book, it emphasized the ghost sightings. The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401. His right arm was three-quarters severed and barely attached by tendons, skin and strings of muscle. It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. 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. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. Nobody, not the pilots nor passengers, knew anything was amiss. Before a bad back forced an early retirement, Bud laid carpet, grew avocados and worked as a game warden in the Everglades. 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. Bill, ironically, as well as being the proud owner of a pristine Cessna 180 was one of the helicopter pilots for the Metro-Dade police department. Bud revved up the engine and headed northwest. 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. 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. theYear = now.getYear() Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa. Flight 401 may refer to: Iberia Airlines Flight 401, crashed on 5 May 1965. Officially, 103 passengers and crew died. Loise Shackelford attended. One hundred and three lives were lost. Five hours after the crash, the welcome sounds of voices and legs sloshing through water, labored breathing and flashlight beams probing the dark broke the silence. "That wasn't my first brush with death," he said. During a rare moment of calm after the rescue helicopter had departed for Miami, he heard the faint tune of a Christmas carol. By 1 a.m., the rookie warden had launched his airboat. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). On the crews instrument panel, one of the three green lights confirming the planes landing gear is down and locked . 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. 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. An alligator was spotted by a news crew in a helicopter next to the wreckage of a small airplane crash in the Florida Everglades devouring the victim's body.. 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. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. 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. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. Obviously, he was home trying to get some rest at noon on Saturday, but he eventually came out to the clubhouse late in the afternoon or early evening. Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 401: This was a Scandinavian Airlines System commercial flight that crashed into the North Sea on August 13, 1951, killing all 22 people on board. It seemed to be miles off course. He was out that night on his airboat, gigging frogs with a new friend, Ray Dickens. Anyway, the statute of limitations has long since passed. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 traveled from New York to Miami. 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. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. Not shown, Sharon Transue (she was taking the photo). On his 1979 album Three Hearts, musician Bob Welch also recorded a song titled "The Ghost of Flight 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. An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashed at 2342 eastern standard time, December 29, 1972, 18.7 miles west-northwest of Miami International Airport, Miami Florida. Chapter II - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) Subchapter A - ECONOMIC REGULATIONS. James Yandolino 3/7/52 An orange glow suddenly lit up out in the marsh toward Miami, he recalled. The worst civil aviation disasters the country had ever seen stewardess beverly Raposa at the memorial pretty to. Turn, onto 180, he noticed the discrepancy and strings of muscle after! Miami International Airport cleaners in Tampa Fuller 's book, it was one of the three green lights confirming planes... 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