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Eduardo Jaramillo 8/2/32 Get Alerts. 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." Miami International Airport Sighting | Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. The Miami News, Dec. 30, 1972. 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. Not shown, Sharon Transue (she was taking the photo). His doctor warned him not to travel alone, not with his weak heart and lungs and aching back. She had nothing. May Albury, Verena Bieri, Carl Bolufe, Rigoberto Bolufe, Sandra Burt, Gustavo Cassado, Mrs Xeimara Casado, Miss Christina Casado, Mariel Diegeriez, Gerald W Eskow, Sylvia Fisher, Ms. F. Frankin, Herbert Fresko, Molly Fresko, Alicia Garcia, Julia Garcia, Kathryn F.Gaudiello, George Gaudiello, Kenneth Glassman, Kuniko Goldfuss, Milton Hoffman, Ronald Infantino, Miguel Angel Junco Jr., David Kaplan, Franklin Kent, Anita Kent, Helen Kupiec, Jessie LaRusso, James Laurie, Mrs. Leone Levine, Cornelia Leya, Thomas McAvoy, Joseph Mazur, Rose Mazur, Luis Mejia, Richard N. Micale, Albert J Morris, Janice Minguzzi, Christina Ochoa, Allen Okanawsky, Oneida Pares, Aristides Pares, Martha Pares, Carlos Polanco, Lucino Polanco, Joseph Popson, Richard Pragluski, Goldez Quinico, Evelyn Ragalia, Marie Rego, Glen Remkus*, Francoise Riette, Thomas Rothenberg, Martin Siminerio, Bonnie Silverman, Donna Smith, Millie Soberon, Jerald Solomon, Larry Sumpkins, Marilyn Taylor, Edward Ulrich, Jesse C. Walker, Alan Weiss, Lorenzo Zetlin. He also likes not to think about those days. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. It's a swamp, a flat swamp. I dont know this for sure, but I seem to remember he was the last survivor rescued.. Both pilots and the flight engineer died, along with 2 out of 10 flight attendants and 96 of the 163 passengers on board. 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!. Telephone number:0208 846 0502 . It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami. Support the development and execution of ground and flight test operations; Qualifications: B.S. Less than three hours later the aircraft reached Florida. They were both looking forward to some rest and then a big New Years celebration with Lillys Cuban parents in Miami, which would include a traditional whole roasted pig cooked over an open fire pit. Once the crisis was over, respiratory therapist Susan Mefford was assigned to Infantino. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. Aground. Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. 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. 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. The warden noted nothing of interest. Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. We exited the area and returned to Opa locka Airport, but our conversations were subdued. Above: Flight attendants Beverly Raposa and Mercy Ruiz sit on a patch of ground in the Everglades where their flight crashed 35 years earlier. Julia Lustig 5/30/25 Beverly Raposa switched seats from her regular position in the galley for a flight from New York to Miami. [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. 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. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. Ever the good Catholic, she crossed herself in the dark and silently prayed, Oh God, please let that be true.. She was whipped. Mama, heat up the frying pan. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. Skeptic Brian Dunning claims that the origin for the ghost sightings was a joke made by an Eastern Air Lines captain after an emergency landing in which he quipped that he "thought [Don] Repo's ghost was on the plane."[22][24]. Silence. 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. Rons eyes blinked open upon hearing the engines roar to full power. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 departed New York for Miami on December 29, 1972. The left wingtip banked into the marsh at 227 miles per hour. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. It would be hard to make up a plausible story like Ronald Infantino's -- too sad, too joyful. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. Brief Synopsis. Eddie Albert featured as "Dunn", a fictionalized version of Captain Robert Loft. [6]:107109, Robert "Bud" Marquis (19292008),[7] an airboat pilot, was out frog gigging with Ray Dickinsin (19291988) when they witnessed the crash. He has fallen backwards and his arms are spread apart. LOYLESS FUNERAL HOME, Land O'Lakes/Lutz Chapel. I lost my boot., Well, Raposa said, Ill help you find it., Thats okay, Raposa said. Forgotten about him, actually. I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." The Ghosts of Flight 401, part of the Discovery+ series Shock Docs, emphasizes the supernatural legacy of the crash. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. 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. From a half mile above, it's like an artist's canvas. The apparitions of Loft and Repo were invariably described as being extremely lifelike. Surprisingly, he found that there were large pieces of wreckage still out in the glades. Sharon Norene Gatti 3/2/48 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. After retiring he volunteered with the Civil Air Patrol, his last rank was Lt. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. "It survived that night, just like me. 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. She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. That's why Hansel wanted me to fly; it would be my license that got revoked if we got caught, not his! 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. My God, what do we do now? 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'. Shortly before I pulled up to the clubhouse, I heard a news report on my car radio about the crash of an Eastern Airlines L1011 in the Everglades. Survivors - Crew and Eastern Employees Instead, it took 35 years. Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived. His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. He saw tangled metal and smelled aviation fuel. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Chapter II - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) Subchapter A - ECONOMIC REGULATIONS. [5]:3, The flight was routine until 23:32, when the airplane began its approach into Miami International Airport. Eastern Flight 401: A survivor's story Before ValuJet there was Eastern Flight 401. "The three of us toast to life on that day every year.". Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 However, we had one advantage that members of the general public didn't have - we had access to airplanes. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 Eastern 401, pull up, climb straight ahead to 2,000, go back to approach control, the tower advised. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. The next morning, as was my usual Saturday routine, I drove to the Sun Flying club timing it to arrive at approximately 11am. His flight crew included First Officer . Muriel J. Ames 11/30/40 "I've tried to throw [the suitcase] away many times, but something always holds me back. The mood was festive as people were leaving the coldness of New York to bring in 1973 on the beaches of Florida. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 AIRBOYD 487K subscribers 284K views 13 years ago #AIRBOYD #AvGeek Video Courtesy: FAA via Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents. She had no first-aid kit. My guess is that the L1011 essentially did a flat or horizontal cartwheel and tore itself apart. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 7 | Hey!" 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. [5]:6[6]:98, Flight 401 departed JFK Airport in New York on Friday, December 29, 1972, at 21:20EST, with 163 passengers and 13 crew members aboard. In the cockpit, the first of six radio altimeter warnings began, signaling an impending crash. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 My direct and indirect contact with Eastern Flight 401 didn't end on December 30, 1972. Tower, this is Eastern 401, it looks like were going to have to circle. Suddenly, he stopped. Elisa Ruth Romero 5/28/44 Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Then wham! A lot of the people I saw were naked. He can't remember anyone's name now. Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. The lack of biting insects allowed him to roll the drivers window down to better listen for a shot fired from a poachers gun. 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 . I don't see any reason to worry about what fate has brought. "This is way in the past.". 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. Then he tells the story the best he can. Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. The crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 41 years ago Sunday, the first crash of a widebody aircraft and, at the time, the second deadliest single-aircraft disaster in the U.S., led to wide-ranging changes in on board safety that continue to positively affect air travel today. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. All 110 people on board died. A mass of interesting testimony was produced as a result. Of the 176 passengers and crew members aboard Flight 401, 77 survived the initial crash. Stick with the book. Because of the magnitude of the rescue operation and of the medical emergency caused the study resulted in a . 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. (ABN 16 009 661 901) of 401 King Street, London, W6 9NJ, United Kingdom. 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. itinerary data, aircraft/flight or vessel/ voyage data, and personal identification information, including name, gender, date of birth, citizenship, travel document data, and status onboard the vessel or aircraft. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, crashed on 29 December 1972. That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. The tall building behind the plane is Building 16 at MIA, the former headquarters of Eastern Air Lines. Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 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. Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman termed the ghost stories about the crash "garbage". [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. 12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. [21] A television movie, also titled The Ghost of Flight 401, broadcast by NBC during February 1978. 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. He rescued some terrified folks - he doesn't know how many - before the regular cavalry of official rescuers arrived in helicopters, directed to the carnage by his head lamp. Infantino sold his house and investment property at a loss, swapped his Lincoln for a Ford Pinto and went job-hunting. Those words guided Leonhard as his 14-foot patrol airboat bulldozed through dense walls of water-anchored grass. At least he lives near his precious Everglades. Eastern had overlooked the half inch, whether by design or error she didnt know. There was an enormous flash of flame as two fuel tanks burst open. She went into crew scheduling and suffers back pains still and hasn't been on an airplane in years. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. Hansel Meighen died on April 15, 1999, and is buried in Ft. Pierce, Florida. The time was 9:20 p.m. Anne Ponte 1/7/16 Before a bad back forced an early retirement, Bud laid carpet, grew avocados and worked as a game warden in the Everglades. [5]:9 The landing gear could have been manually lowered, nonetheless. What happened next must have happened very quickly. Nery Palma 7/12/34 An aerial view of the crash site; a swath of the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. At the time, it was one of the worst civil aviation disasters the country had ever seen. He knows exactly how he'd go about it. Around 4:30 a.m., Leonhard waded up to a willow heada thick tangle of weepy trees with brittle limbs draping into the water. Carpet layers need strong backs. 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). The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. With the engine dangerously wide open - the boat slipped over the grass at 35 mph - he maneuvered around all obstacles. Colonel. "Then I saw this great big fireball and the whole 'glades lit up. [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. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. The approach controller cleared the flight to climb to 2,000ft (610m), and then hold west over the Everglades. He ended up making numerous trips out to the levee where the rescue operation base was located. Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. 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. . At 11:32 p.m., Capt. She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. December 29, 2022 / 10:12 AM / CBS Miami. "It needs new points and plugs, maybe a new set of rings. Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08 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. The scene was impressive. [5]:22[6]:109, 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 cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. Marquis, Robert | 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. The NTSB classified the injuries of one nonrevenue passenger and one other passenger as nonfatal, as their deaths occurred more than seven days after the accident. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. I vaguely remember that we ended up taking a total of five people on that flight. 2023-Feb-14. 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. Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. It was a routine trip for Flight 401 until 11:32 p.m. when the plane began its approach to Miami International Airport, and an indicator light for the nose landing gear had not lit up. [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. He lost interest in his job and just wanted to be alone. There were also a bunch of vehicles and some helicopters on a nearby levee that was being used as the base of operations for the rescue and crash investigation. Sadly, she did not survive. I probably did too, I'm sure." 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. 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. Murray Yellin 6/9/11 Raposas survivors became upset. He was 79. His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. He needed a respiratory therapist -- who, it turned out, needed him, too. He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to a hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. Combined with numerous anonymous witnesses and countless tales, the rumors spread throughout the aviation community. Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45 Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. The captain, along with one of two flight crew members, two of 10 flight attendants, and 97 of 163 passengers, died; 75 . It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami. ValuJet 592 went down in May 1996, killing all 110 on board. 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. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. Helen Marie Chestnut 4/17/39 Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 The rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. Eight passengers became infected; doctors used hyperbaric chambers to treat the infections. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. But we idled back around to double-check on them just in case.. Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. Lockheed L-1011 Cockpit | Fourteen survivors had various degrees of burns. It is 12 feet long and 7 feet across. Ron closed his eyes, crossed his arms comfortably over his chest and let the gentle engine thrum lull him into a light sleep. [6], The flight was commanded by Captain Robert Albin (Bob) Loft, age 55, a veteran pilot ranked 50th in seniority at Eastern Air Lines. "He was just a guy out there frogging and minding his own business who knew he had to help people in trouble. On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Flight 401 from New York to Miami took off from JFK Airport at 9:20 pm. 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. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. 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