12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. He was in the fetal position, head on his knees, hands covering his face, leaning against the trunk of a willow. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 1 | Two minutes later, Flight 401 called the air traffic control tower. 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. But he and his helper had 30 pounds of legs. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. 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. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70 The flight should have taken around 18 hours. The crew members, however, were focused on fixing the wheel-light indicator. I diplomatically told James that I couldn't take possession of the large pieces of wreckage. 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. (No one had a camera, so I don't have any personal photos.) In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. Bud waved his light until the helicopter took notice. 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. . Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. A similar situation appeared in the Thai movie Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. Oddly, he felt no pain. [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 single-engine Cessna 152 was . Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. A Coast Guard helicopter flew toward them, sweeping the marsh with a bright searchlight, and then turned away. 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 . On a moonless night, in the beam of his head lamp, the frog eyes would glow like rubies. Eugene Schenker 6/24/30 [5]:4 Fifty seconds after reaching their assigned altitude, Captain Loft instructed First Officer Stockstill to put the L-1011 on autopilot. 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. With no one flying the plane or noticing its steady descent at flight speed, it flew itself into the ground. I was a kid, 21 years old. 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. "It's 100 degrees in the house, honey," Nancy says, joining him on the porch. Obviously, I'm not a hunter, but I don't begrudge those who do hunt responsibly. What caused Flight 401 crash? Silence. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. [5]:4 This altitude alert, designed to warn the pilots of an inadvertent deviation from the selected altitude, went unnoticed by the crew. His flight crew included First Officer Albert John "Bert" Stockstill, 39, who had 5,800 hours of flying experience (with 306 of them in the L-1011), and Flight Engineer Donald Louis "Don" Repo, 51, who had 15,700 hours of flying experience, with 53 of them in the L-1011. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. My God, what do we do now? Only small fragments of metal marked the wingtip's first contact, followed 49ft (15m) further on by three massive 115ft (35m) swaths cut through the mud and sawgrass by the aircraft's extended undercarriage before two of the legs were sheared off. 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. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. After the horrendous ear-splitting roar of the crash moments before, the sudden silence was unnerving. He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. 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. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after taking off from Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo. 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. He is completely burned. She had nothing. at 12:30 pm, December 30th) 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. '," she says now. Off I went to check with the FAA Flight Service Station. Ghosts of Flight 401 - YouTube 0:00 / 42:56 Ghosts of Flight 401 MrBallen 7.21M subscribers Subscribe 272K 5.1M views 4 months ago #mrballen #ghost #paranormal For 16 free meals with. "He's an airboater.". [4] It was also the first hull loss and fatal crash of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. Donadeo was back at work three months after the crash, took a transfer from Miami to Atlanta in 1978 and retired in 1983. The other 101 people on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 died quite horribly -- 98 in the Everglades where the airplane crashed, three later in hospitals. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. He survived, barely, with his right arm nearly severed, his left knee broken and his chest crushed. Two later died, leaving 75 survivors and 101 fatalities. Trudy Smith didn't return to flying. 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. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53 Wrong. After dark he moonlighted as a commercial frogger. My guess is that the L1011 essentially did a flat or horizontal cartwheel and tore itself apart. "I could get it running," he says, fighting for breath. [5]:6,16[9] However, the NTSB concluded that the captain's tumor did not contribute to the accident. He immediately drove to Eastern's Miami offices and decided to charter a helicopter to the crash site, as the swampy terrain made rescue difficult, and Eastern Airlines had not heard any news of progress in rescue efforts. The captain, along with one of two flight crew members, two of 10 flight attendants, and 97 of 163 passengers, died; 75 . Sadly, she did not survive. The plane was dropping from the sky at a rate of 200 feet each minute. 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. That subsides. Nobody, not the pilots nor passengers, knew anything was amiss. Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45 On December 3rd 2007, survivors of Eastern Air Lines flight 401 gathered at the Metro-Dade Firefighters' Memorial Building in Miami to honor Robert "Bud" Marquis, and to remember those who lost their lives in the crash nearly 35 years ago. His book was later made into a TV movie. 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 Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. [25] A television movie of the same name was broadcast in October 1978. 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. 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]. Around 4:30 a.m., Leonhard waded up to a willow heada thick tangle of weepy trees with brittle limbs draping into the water. I was too young for that kind of stuff. During its flight from New York to Miami, an aircraft operating Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Everglades after the cockpit became so distracted by a burnt-out landing gear indicator light, they neglected to notice the autopilot had disengaged, and that the plane was slowly losing altitude. 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. Gas gangrene attacked his lungs. But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. 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. His writings form the basis for much of this Web site, with permission. The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. They were both 26 years old. 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. This photo taken in September 2009. The following conversation was recovered from the flight voice recorder later: Less than 10 seconds after this exchange, the jetliner crashed: The location was west-northwest of Miami, 18.7mi (30.1km) from the end of runway 9L. "He was just a guy out there frogging and minding his own business who knew he had to help people in trouble. Feel the warmth going down.. Only their bedroom has an air conditioner. 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. One hundred and one lives were lost that late . Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 Brief Synopsis. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. [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 had to make a detour of some 50 miles before he would arrive at the boat ramp on the north side of the Tamami Trail. A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. 09:23AM EST Miami Intl - MIA. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. As I sit writing this 34 years later in December 2006, I can still visualize the events of that night just as if they had occurred yesterday.
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