[26], Flight 401 is mentioned in the TV show Supernatural Season 1 Episode 4 named Phantom Traveler's. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. Mary Carfizzi 11/3/19 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. In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. 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. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. Instead, it took 35 years. Well launch from there.. 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. [5]:5 The airplane was traveling at 227 miles per hour (197kn; 365km/h) when it hit the ground. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 left New York's JFK airport, bound for Miami International Airport, on December 29, 1972. "I think I can still do it. He knows exactly how he'd go about it. "I could get it running," he says, fighting for breath. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. Beverly Raposa doesn't mind flying. [9] All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. "Your body could be stripped naked if you're thrown out through an opening, or your body could be relatively intact if you were in part of the aircraft that 'fluttered' down to the surface" because. 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. Now take a sip. With his left, he held onto the boat and walked beside it to the levee. Game warden Gray Leonhard in the 70s; Photography courtesy of Gray Leonhard. ", 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. 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. [5]:23 Investigators believe this was due to the crew being distracted by the nose gear light, and because the flight engineer was not in his seat when it sounded, so would not have been able to hear it. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. Anyway, the pilots couldn't tell if the wheels were down. He likes to think about those days. His required surgery. Mildred Katz 1/8/34 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. His 1977 book, Crash, tells the story of many of the passengers, the investigation and aftermath of Flight 401. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was on its way from New York to Miami on December 29th, 1972, with 13 crew and 163 passengers onboard. After retiring he volunteered with the Civil Air Patrol, his last rank was Lt. From his vantage point atop the levee, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Officer Gray Leonhard, then 24 years old, had a commanding view across the vast darkened marsh. The left wingtip banked into the marsh at 227 miles per hour. He saw openings in the sawgrass created by sliding chunks of broken airplane. [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. The death toll per the final accident report was 99. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. At least they thought they had. She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Carpet layers need strong backs. Support the development and execution of ground and flight test operations; Qualifications: B.S. The jet actually began losing altitude, so gradually that no one noticed until the very end. Bound for Miami, Flight 401 took off from New York's JFK at 9:20 p.m. They didn't find each other until morning. 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. The time was 9:20 p.m. Inside the planes cockpit, the crew was trying to slide in a replacement bulb, a roughly two-square-inch all-in-one light assembly unit covered by a translucent green plastic lens, valued at $12 altogether. Rosa Losano 11/1/01 Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on The aircraft was completely demolished, with wreckage, bodies, and survivors strewn over a wide area. Then the commuter airline folded. 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. 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. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. It was an easy way to break the monotony of intense study, tour the good old USA and also earn a few bucks and I must emphasize the aspect of the earnings. One gave him money. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. The flight is referenced as part of the Bob Welch song "The Ghost of Flight 401" on his 1979 album Three Hearts. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | His flight crew included First Officer . She had nothing. [5]:3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. The crash was documented in Rob and Sarah Elder's 1977 book Crash. Two years after the crash, Anita and Franklin Kent's lives were taken up by endless doctor visits. Surprisingly, he found that there were large pieces of wreckage still out in the glades. Shock had taken over. If you hear my voice, come toward me. ", Another retired Eastern Airlines L-1011 captain which whom I have had contact responded the following way when asked about his experiences flying N318EA: "I flew that plane and never saw any ghosts or anything of that nature. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. Contained Within. Check-in; . Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. I wouldnt be a bit surprised if the speed hed been traveling was well over a hundred miles an hour., Leonhard added, The guy weighed around 160, but it still took eight of us carrying a stretcher filled with his dead weight to carry him out. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. These and other requirements are imposed for the purpose of meeting the collective objectives of the Aviation and This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. At 11:32 p.m., Capt. 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. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. He did well for a while -- had a big house in the Country Club of Miami and drove a Lincoln. Folks from South Florida's sporting community, mostly hunters, fishers and airboaters, heard, many for the first time, about Bud. 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. Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. Hansel owned a single engine Piper Comanche 250, registered as N7510P, that held four people, including the pilot. 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 rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. [25] A television movie of the same name was broadcast in October 1978. This is the story about the night a jumbo jet landed among the pig frogs and alligators, the cottonmouth snakes and yellow-crowned night herons, in the Everglades. 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