A light in the Sky Jerome Becker 6/27/39
. Angelo was a friend to all who know him, generous with his time to anyone who needed him and a devoted husband and father. 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. They failed to notice that the autopilot had been disconnected inadvertently and, subsequently, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. During its descent, the Boeing jet airliner was in a "nose up deck approach" which meant that it was almost next to impossible for its flight crew to see the small Cessna flying directly below it.39 The overhead position of the climbing Cessna 172 Skyhawk's cantilevered wing would have restricted Boswell and Kazy's rear view.40 Nery Palma 7/12/34
He felt helpless, hearing what sounded like hundreds of voices coming at him from different directions. No roar of unmuffled high-horsepower engines. [27]. In December 1972, there was a deadly | by Verity Partington | The Mystery Box | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. 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. The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. Several survivors tracked him down to thank him personally. The problem had consumed all their mental energy. He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70
[5]:3, Loft, who was working the radio during this leg of the flight, told the tower that they would discontinue their approach to their airport and requested to enter a holding pattern. One hundred and three lives were lost. at 12:30 pm, December 30th)
Jose Garcia 6/4/47
Wait a minute, he said. 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. Join FlightAware View more flight history Purchase entire flight history for AAL401. 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. It was only then that it had hit him. No gunshots. What made it so hard was trying to manhandle him up and over the broken willows. Hansel Meighen died on April 15, 1999, and is buried in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Ron Infantino and his late wife, Lilly, on their wedding day; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. A dramatization of the jetliner crash into the Florida Everglades in December 1972, and the rescue of seventy-three passengers (103 died), made up primarily of recognizable TV personalities plus famed bandleader Artie Shaw in his TV-movie debut. [19] Pieces of Flight 401's wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.[20]. [5]:4 In the next 70 seconds, the airplane lost only 250ft (76m), but this was enough to trigger the altitude warning C-chord chime located under the engineer's workstation. (ABN 16 009 661 901) of 401 King Street, London, W6 9NJ, United Kingdom. Unfortunately it did so as a scattered wreck over the marshes of Florida's Everglades. The aircraft impacted the Everglades at 227 mph at 25.51'53"N, 80.35'43"W, almost 7 miles due north of Tamiami Trail (US 41), slightly over 7 miles . 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!. Serving coffee, tea and soda was all very nice, but this was what counted. Then came scattered parts from the number 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. B738. Theyll find us eventually., Raposa had the survivors scoot together, sitting back to back so they could stay warm. "This is way in the past.". I dont know this for sure, but I seem to remember he was the last survivor rescued.. A friend once warned him: "One day you'll work a plane crash out there." "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. AlanNachmias 5/16/50
Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52
His book was later made into a TV movie. 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]:3, The cockpit crew removed the light assembly,[6]:102 and Second Officer Repo was dispatched to the avionics bay beneath the flight deck to check via a small porthole whether the landing gear was indeed down. Following the crash, Raposa was praised for her valor. [5]:23 In this mode, once the pilot releases pressure on the yoke (control column or wheel), the autopilot maintains the pitch attitude of the aircraft until the yoke is again moved. Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived. 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. It was somewhere between 11:30 pm and 11:35 pm, a fact that I specifically remember because I took the time to look at my wristwatch and comment to Bill. Two days later, Lilly Infantino was found trapped beneath one of the wings. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on
The flight should have taken around 18 hours. How about we start with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?. Jana Dedek 6/24/53
She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. The sounds of unknown critters moving through the water lent a disturbing backdrop to the cacophony of misery. The ultimate "yes sir, no sir" man, Bud shuffles reluctantly onto the porch, blinking furiously in the sunlight, wondering what's up. Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51
I mean, I was a single person with no family. That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. 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. However, we had one advantage that members of the general public didn't have - we had access to airplanes. I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa, Stephanie Stanich. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. At 11:32, they aborted the landing, climbed to 2,000 feet and swung west over the Everglades to work out the problem. Three women on the jetliner's tail, about 20 feet above the water, begged Bud to save them. 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. That subsides. The tall building behind the plane is Building 16 at MIA, the former headquarters of Eastern Air Lines. Captain Loft had been with the airline for 32 years and had accumulated a total of 29,700 flight hours throughout his flying career. It seemed to be miles off course. 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. The memories don't. Mildred Katz 1/8/34
At 11:42 p.m., the first officer said, We did something to the 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. It seemed to help. 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. If you hear my voice, come toward me. Why dont we sing to help warm ourselves up? she suggested. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53
At the time, it was one of the worst civil aviation disasters the country had ever seen. [6]:110 Visually, since it was nighttime and the aircraft was flying over the darkened terrain of the Everglades, no ground lights or other visual signs indicated the TriStar was slowly descending. Email subscription; Email subscription; . At approximately 2340R 29 December 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed 1011, with 178 persons on board, crashed in the Everglades 18 miles west of Miami International Airport. I don't question what the Lord does.". (The club is still in existence at the Opa locka Airport, but it was relocated to a different site on the field years ago.) Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 |
Beverly Raposa stumbled out of the nightmarish apocalypse, hurt, disheveled and covered in clumps of dripping swamp grasses. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. A fireman, panting from the exertion of wearing full bunker gear while breaking a trail through the dense vegetation of the swamp, shined his light on 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. Loretta E. Bloodgood 10/13/15
He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. 103 passengers and crew members died in the crash or shortly thereafter and 75 passengers/crew survived. Please dont leave me! Infantino yelled. In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. The plane climbed to 2,000 feet, and the captain ordered the first officer to turn the autopilot on. Thus, the switching to CWS in channel A possibly did not occur in channel B, thus depriving the first officer of any indication the mode had changed (channel A provides the captain's instruments with data, while channel B provides the first officer's). Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. I probably did too, I'm sure." [14], During the following months and years, stories began circulating that employees of Eastern Air Lines, and numerous passengers, had reported sightings of the dead crew members, captain Robert Loft and second officer (flight engineer) Donald Repo, sitting aboard other L-1011s (including, in particular, N318EA). Tennessee's Music City combines country, bluegrass, rock, pop, Americana, gospel, classical, jazz, and bluesall in perfect harmonyto create one of the best places in the world to remember music's greatest performers, see today's top artists, and maybe discover the next big thing. My log book shows that our flight lasted 1.2 hours. View history. Born in Arkansas, he grew up in South Florida when everybody seemed to be poor. On September 4, 1954, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 departed from Aachen, West Germany, destined for Porto Alegre, Brazil. When they began to gather up the 132 bodies from USAir Flight 427 today, officials realized there were so many pieces that the grisly task would take days, perhaps weeks. Lilly leaned back in her seat, resting quietly. The Lockheed L-1011 carried 163 passengers and 13 crew members. 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. Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. '," she says now. The aircraft was destroyed. its related bodies corporate and their respective officers, employees, contractors and agents (Promotion Parties) will not . I have lost contact with Bill Elliott. On the clear, moonless night of Dec. 29, 1972, a young rookie game warden sat behind the steering wheel of a light-green 1969 Plymouth four-door sedan with a blue gumball emergency light mounted on the rooftop. [22] Eastern considered suing for libel, based on assertions of a cover-up by Eastern executives, but Borman opted not to, feeling a lawsuit would merely provide more publicity for the book. There were 75 survivors. Check-in; . After a few minutes they saw the lights of rescue helicopters, circling, searching, much too far east and south. 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. Based on the book, it dramatized the crash, rescue efforts, and NTSB investigation. Blackness. It's broken, just like him. [25] A television movie of the same name was broadcast in October 1978. He felt a sense of mission as he looked out into the black swamp, knowing that his job required cunning and stealth. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades,[1][2][3] causing 101 total fatalities. Rosa Losano 11/1/01
Eastern Airlines Flight #401 (L1011 N310EA) crashed in the Everglades on December 29, 1972. It looked like someone had poured gasoline on a campfire, and poof, up it went. Curiously, Leonhard never heard the impact. Ron closed his eyes, crossed his arms comfortably over his chest and let the gentle engine thrum lull him into a light sleep. I don't pretend to understand why it happens. [9] All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. That's why Hansel wanted me to fly; it would be my license that got revoked if we got caught, not his! "You have to keep your eye on the frogs real good when that airboat is moving - I mean not take your eyes away - and be quick with the gig," he says, in what amounts to the Gettysburg Address for him. I do recall that some gremlins were on it though and they kept messing up my landing!!!!". Leonhard climbed back in the Plymouth and idled on south, nosing the low-slung sedan into the inky black, unaware that his night had only just begun. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . They have two sons and live in Dade City now, near Tampa. We're having legs tonight. His required surgery. He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. 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. The flight was routine until 23:32 when the plane began its approach into Miami International Airport. 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). Fortunately, Bud was an expert. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. 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. The 52-year-old flight engineer was one of 101 people who'd died Dec. 29, 1972 when Eastern Flight 401, packed with holiday travelers, slammed into the Everglades 19 miles northwest of Miami. 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. On the day of the crash, Flight 401 was operated using a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar (registration N310EA), which had been delivered to the airline on August 18, 1972. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. 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. They even made cheesy movie about it. 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 state of decomposition of these bodies was very advanced, to the point where they were practically skeletons. The left wingtip banked into the marsh at 227 miles per hour. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. Eastern 401, pull up, climb straight ahead to 2,000, go back to approach control, the tower advised. 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.. Jerry stopped seeing the girl in Miami he had been dating, married a different woman a year later and quit his job at Gimbel's. 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. 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. Perhaps the most extraordinary and credible research into the ghost phenomenon ever documented is the so-called "Ghosts of Flight 401."On December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp.Read the accident report (PDF). The death toll per the final accident report was 99. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52
[5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. He butchered their bodies to pieces after his wife threatened him with divorce. Then, it dropped 100ft (30m), and then again flew level for two more minutes, after which it began a descent so gradual it could not be perceived by the crew. The Infantinos were exhausted from celebrating Christmas with Rons parents in New York. The apparitions of Loft and Repo were invariably described as being extremely lifelike. They didn't keep score, but Marquis knows they saved a lot of people's lives that night. Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08
The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. [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. Now take a sip. 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. [5]:5. Seventy-five miraculously survived. I think all the survivors had been rescued by that time and taken to hospitals, but there were a lot of bodies still at the crash site. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. 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. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. Klaus Schenck 9/5/39
3h 15m. December 29, 2022 / 10:12 AM / CBS Miami. The National Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation gave Marquis a humanitarian award for being the first to respond to the crash, and in a touching tribute, members of The Southern Airboat association presented Marquis with a completely rebuilt airboat - the same one he had used to rescue crash victims in 1972.. "I think it's nice, but I don't think I really deserve a lot of hullabaloo over this," Marquis, 78, of Homestead, said of the award. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. The disintegration of the aircraft that followed scattered wreckage over an area 1,600ft (500m) long and 330ft (100m) wide in a southwesterly direction. Survivors described a flash or spark that exploded through the cabin as the jet ripped apart. It was rare for commercial airliners to fly westbound directly overhead Opa locka Airport at such a relatively low altitude. It looked like a piece of the wreckage, or something, had been propelled on a near horizontal trajectory, traveling just a foot or two above the waters surface, and rocketed into the willows with tremendous force., Bent at the waist, the two men waded into the hole, following a ragged debris trail of damaged vegetation. The Miami News, Dec. 30, 1972. Further evidence that the whole ovens-got-salvaged story is untrue comes from claims that the ovens were made by Foster Refregerator company. About Flight 401 |
A similar situation appeared in the Thai movie Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. 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. They claimed that the deceaseds name was being used for the commercial purpose of selling books about the fatal crash (and a movie based on the book) by referring to the decedent as a reappearing ghost. The family lost the suit, and subsequent appeals. Carpet layers need strong backs. The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. With his left, he held onto the boat and walked beside it to the levee. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. Theyd been married only 20 days and were returning from their honeymoon. Tuesday. He likes to think about those days. Marquis received burns to his face, arms, and legsa result of spilled jet fuel from the crashed TriStarbut continued shuttling people in and out of the crash site that night and the next day. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43
", PHOTO of Mercy Ruiz and her Samsonite suitcase in May 2009. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. Then the commuter airline folded. Shock had taken over. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 7 |
He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. [6]:108 The most common injuries were fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV Movie 1978) - IMDb |
"I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. Stick with the book. He ended up making numerous trips out to the levee where the rescue operation base was located. Her face burned from the jet fuel. A Coast Guard helicopter flew toward them, sweeping the marsh with a bright searchlight, and then turned away. [5]:3, The flight was routine until 23:32, when the airplane began its approach into Miami International Airport. I don't see any reason to worry about what fate has brought. Hey!" Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. Rowdy fans of Notre Dame and University of Nebraska, scheduled to play on New Year's Day at the Orange Bowl, were poised to take over the town. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. Rodas, meanwhile, is "badly burned" as well, the source says. Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45
My mother never told me the flight attendant's name, but she did say that she had suffered a broken back in the crash. He was more than 25 miles away. Anyway, the pilots couldn't tell if the wheels were down. 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. Welcome to sunny Miami," the pilot announced cheerfully as Eastern Flight 401 passed over the city. I was a kid, 21 years old. Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. The Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar was the latest generation of wide-body commercial aircraft and had been put into service only four months before. Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. 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