Discretion was the better part of valor. Talk to anyone about ghosts or hauntings, and invariably images of abandoned old houses with dilapidated features or conditions will spring to mind. He also likes not to think about those days. Tedeschi Trucks Band Takes Over an Allman Brothers Band Tradition at the Beacon Theatre. At the time, not much notice was taken. Beverly Raposa doesn't mind flying. He felt helpless, hearing what sounded like hundreds of voices coming at him from different directions. 101 out of the 176 occupants onboard the . For those who haven't seen the images: In her initial report from the crash site a large Ukrainian wheat field "dotted with purple flowers and Queen Anne's lace" the New York Times . After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. Sometimes, back when there were no cell phones or GPS electronics to help navigate, he'd get lost at night. If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. He received a $250,000 settlement in a lawsuit, blew it all, got into drug trouble, went back to work and fell off a truck. This photo was taken hours before the crash on December 29th while on board Flight 26 in Miami. I do recall that some gremlins were on it though and they kept messing up my landing!!!!". . I lost my boot., Well, Raposa said, Ill help you find it., Thats okay, Raposa said. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . Serving coffee, tea and soda was all very nice, but this was what counted. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. It's broken, just like him. In addition to commemorating Flight 401, the creative talent behind the exhibit is seeking to help survivors raise the funding needed to create a permanent large-scale memorial to Flight 401's victims and survivors in the City of Miami Springs, once home to a thriving Eastern Air Lines community. He'd see the lights and hear the roar as the jets climbed into the black night over the swamp or descended toward Miami International Airport. His book was later made into a TV movie. Surprisingly, he found that there were large pieces of wreckage still out in the glades. Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 Jerrold Solomon, who had walked away from the crash unscathed, flew home to New York three days later. Anyway, the statute of limitations has long since passed. Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52. High in the distant black sky, beyond the harsh glare cast by his headlamp, was a circling star: the searchlight of a Coast Guard helicopter hovering over the crash site eight miles away. Some may have tried to turn this actual human tragedy into a fictional ghost story, but it was the efforts of the real people involved who used it to extinguish a few real ghosts in the form of safety flaws, to reduce the chances of the same type of accident happening again. Bud wants to. Ann Connell, Barry Connell, Angelo Donadeo, Patricia R Georgia, Adrianne Ann Hamilton, Jennifer Larsen, Thomas Mulcahy, Mercedes V Ruiz, Beverly Jean Raposa, Trudy J Smith, Sue F. Tibbs, Sharon R Transue, Dorothy M Warnock. At least they thought they had. The unexpected facts behind this famous ghost story from the 1970s. 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. Eight minutes earlier, 401 had been descending on its landing approach after an uneventful flight from New York. It all started according to the book when a later L-1011 owned by Eastern Air Lines was on a flight to Mexico City. It is now known that "Mrs. McAvoy" was Donna Smith, Thomas McAvoy's traveling companion. Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. The temperature is in the low 70s, and its beautiful out there tonight.. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. But fortunately, it is not the only source available to us. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. But one other very important thing we learn from Serling's history of Eastern Air Lines is that the central claim of Fuller's book that ghosts accompanied the salvaged pieces of Flight 401 installed in other planes is false. Flashlights became part of the standard equipment; flight attendants now have shoulder harnesses whether their seats face forward or backward; the acoustic alerts given to pilots to advise them of changes to the autopilot settings were dramatically improved; and the groundwork was laid for what later became the science of Cockpit Resource Management, which aims to minimize human error by codifying communication, leadership, and decision making in the cockpit. 1972 was drawing to a close when a routine flight from JFK, New York to Miami departed at 9:20 p.m. with 30-year veteran pilot Captain Bob Loft at the controls. Dennis Gordon 12/9/32 The old airboat, the airboat in which he carried injured passengers, waits on a rusty trailer with flat tires. In late 1972 the two were passengers in a plane crash that left both with debilitating painful injuries. "I was wounded in World War II when the ship I was on was hit by a kamikaze. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . I mean, I was a single person with no family. Also in attendance was Ron Infantino, David Kaplan and the Casado family. As the plane descended on its final landing approach to Miami International Airport, a cheerful voice boomed over the cabins loudspeaker address system: Welcome to sunny Miami, the captain announced. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 A friend once warned him: "One day you'll work a plane crash out there." He needed a respiratory therapist -- who, it turned out, needed him, too. It's truly amazing how the mind works for, at the time, I had no idea of the significance of what I saw that night nor did I intend to store it away in my memory banks. Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 Loft even spoke to the ground crew, insisting that no checks were required as he had already done them. It promised to be an exciting week in Miami, especially for people who had bucks for a meal at Joe's Stone Crabs and a night at the Fontainebleau Hotel, where the sexy dancer Ann-Margret was headlining. However, by the time the pilots realized their situation it was too late; flight 401 impacted the Everglades in a left turn and began to disintegrate, the wreckage being strewn over an area of 50 square kilometers. I'll forever believe that it was Eastern Flight 401, just minutes before it and its passengers and crew became part of aviation history and legend. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. Barbara Ann Saal Afterward, folks hope to take the old man into the Everglades, in his own airboat, if he wants. After dark he moonlighted as a commercial frogger. '," she says now. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 Bob called Infantino, who loves to tell the story: "He was a regional coordinator with AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Co., and that's when I started -- 16 years ago, and I've been with them ever since. "This is way in the past.". Lilly leaned back in her seat, resting quietly. Undeterred, the pilot investigated further and did find a problem that may have caused a serious accident if it went unnoticed. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 None of them realized in the dark that they were gradually descending, as their attention was on debugging the landing gear indicator. Flight 401 - Flight Log | The apparitions of Loft and Repo were invariably described as being extremely lifelike. The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. Jose Rego 9/5/19 Eastern had overlooked the half inch, whether by design or error she didnt know. You know what would make Bud Marquis happy? Moe Lustig 7/16/23 Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08 Spectral looking people with manic laughs or clanking chains are another popular image people often have of ghosts or spirits. Please review this photograph closely. The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. Officially, 103 passengers and crew died. Newsroom Ready: Canadian officials, families honour Flight PS752 victims on third anniversary Grieving friends and relatives of victims killed during the downing of Flight PS752 called for justice and accountability from the Iranian regime as Canadians from coast to coast marked three years since the country's military shot the plane down. 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. Abover right - Over 100 airboats participated in the evenet. md-87 r4 . Unborn son of Rochelle and Stefan Rubin Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. The plane, a new "Whisperliner," could transport 229 passengers. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Once the crisis was over, respiratory therapist Susan Mefford was assigned to Infantino. Loft abandoned the landing and informed Air Traffic Control of the issue. In particular, an oven and the elevator (for the L-1011 had an elevator leading to a spacious downstairs galley) were salvaged from Flight 401 and installed on another L-1011 in the fleet, on which Repo usually appeared. 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. People observe a candlelight vigil in memory of victims of a plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. On Dec. 29, 1972, it carried 178, including crew. This position is with the Agency Services area of DTMB. ", PHOTO of Mercy Ruiz and her Samsonite suitcase in May 2009. A mass of interesting testimony was produced as a result. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. The other 101 people on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 died quite horribly -- 98 in the Everglades where the airplane crashed, three later in hospitals. Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. On Dec. 3, Southern Airboat and other organizations also plan to honor Bud and the victims and survivors of Eastern Flight 401 with a service and a barbecue in Miami. Im sure they all ran away. She spit the words out quickly, doing her best to sound convincing. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. Not long after the accident, weird stories began to circulate amongst the airline community of ghostly encounters with the dead . There was an enormous flash of flame as two fuel tanks burst open. Good for me! It was shortly after the May 11, 1996 . On December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - Flight 401 - left New York and flew on a downward vector to Miami, Florida. The altimeter showed a decrease in altitude, but none of the crew noticed. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other airplanes. If you like this programming, please become a member. This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. 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. Web. Skeptoid Podcast Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Robert A. Loft, then 55 years old, with 30 years experience and 29,700 flight hours under his belt, attempted to lower the landing gear. Pine and others want to do something nice for Bud, perhaps honor him with a special day, raise cash for Bud's taxes, groceries and medical bills. She had no first-aid kit. A jumbo jet crashed in the Everglades north of the Tamiami Trial, his sergeant said. Game warden Gray Leonhard in the 70s; Photography courtesy of Gray Leonhard. Albert J. Stockstill 6/9/33 Fuller wrote that the airline was apparently trying to cover this up. She was very scared, having never been in the Everglades before. Then the commuter airline folded. She described him as dazed and unresponsive. In addition to commemorating Flight 401, the creative talent behind the exhibit is seeking to help survivors raise the funding needed to create a permanent large-scale memorial to Flight 401's victims and survivors in the City of Miami Springs, once home to a thriving Eastern Air Lines community. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. In recent months Canti and others have made pilgrimages to Bud's screened door to hear his story. 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. Why dont we sing to help warm ourselves up? she suggested. They were both 26 years old. When I was learning to fly in the mid-1960s at Sun Line Helicopters, one of the fixed base operators (FBO) tied into the Miami-Dade Junior College aviation program at the Opa locka Airport, I worked as a line boy refueling aircraft and doing minor line maintenance. Wreckage site of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. It looked as though the L1011 was in a shallow left turn and dragged the left wing tip in the swamp. Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020, l'hlicoptre Sikorsky S-76 de Kobe Bryant s'crase prs de Calabasas, en Californie (tats-Unis).Les neuf occupants de l'appareil sont tus sur le coup. It infamously crashed in Florida's Everglades swamp just before midnight, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. The NTSB also reported that 67passengers survived the carnage and 94 perished, as did two of the cabin crew. The tall building behind the plane is Building 16 at MIA, the former headquarters of Eastern Air Lines. The last thing Raposa remembered seeing before she was knocked out was a waterfall of colors. New York: Berkeley Publishing Corp, 1976. This just the beginning. A Coast Guard helicopter flew toward them, sweeping the marsh with a bright searchlight, and then turned away. Today, she still has the small, Eastern Airlines-issued cream-colored suitcase she carried the night of the crash. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. 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. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. The L-1011 was new, parts were scarce, and any non-structural components that passed scrutiny said Fuller went into Eastern's spare parts pool. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. On Thursday the victims of that crash were honored with a memorial in Miami Springs. 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. James Yandolino 3/7/52 Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. We dont have a light on our nose gear yet.. Picture that in your mind. Cancel at any time: 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. We've been married going on 18 years now." The flying club was also a de facto social club with members having the common bonds of flying and aircraft ownership. Maureen I. Chesler 10/12/47 Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. At home, waiting sometimes fearfully, was Nancy, a pretty barefoot country girl in a cotton dress. Obviously, I'm not a hunter, but I don't begrudge those who do hunt responsibly. The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge Sunday . That section of the Everglades is a tangle of sawgrass, tree islands, canals and levees. Jerome Becker 6/27/39 Above: (L) Luis Mejia recovering from the crash in Palmetto Hospital in 1973 and (R) Carlos Polanco in 2004. Below Right - Gatherers take a moment to honor Robert 'Bud' Marquis. Braulio Corretjer 1/5/28 "Hey! That's where the helicopters, one after another, landed that night, and where ambulances arrived to load the dead and injured. I'm pretty sure that Tom Roche and Bob Crews were two of the "lucky" ones that got aboard, but I couldn't swear to it now. After the fact, pieces of the plane and equipment from it were salvaged to use on other planes; almost immediately, passengers and airline employees began reporting paranormal events. Mercy Ruiz, Cindy Kaza, Ron Infantino. AlanNachmias 5/16/50 The other flight crew members were First Officer John Stockhill, a flight engineer, and Donald Luis Repo, an aircraft mechanic, and flight engineer. It was a heart-to- heart bond. Survivors described a flash or spark that exploded through the cabin as the jet ripped apart. 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. "Then I saw this great big fireball and the whole 'glades lit up. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. They didn't find each other until morning. Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | More than a single person has often been present at the time, whether by accident or design. This one quip appears to be the genesis of the entire story. 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. Fuller could have said whatever he wanted about the condition of the wreckage, and nobody would have any reason to doubt him. 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. His right arm was badly hurt. victims, and the general public. Onboard the aircraft, all members of the Flight Crew worked solely on their problem. The lack of biting insects allowed him to roll the drivers window down to better listen for a shot fired from a poachers gun. 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. 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. 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. Raposa, Beverly | Leonhard doesnt remember which one. Source: FAA. Allen M. Stark 8/11/49 Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. Obviously, this is a red flag waving at us vigorously that we should be sure to take this tale with several good grains of salt. It didn't look as if anyone could have possibly survived the crash, yet 75 people did. Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of victims of a flight that crashed Sunday, and said they were sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as . That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. 2022 TV-14. Miami International Airport Sighting | Their marriage spanned 47 years. He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Donna; son, John (Jan) Angelo; daughters, Susan (Bob) Norberg, Patricia (Rick) Shepherd; and nine grandchildren. The appearance of the dead flight engineer was confirmed by the flight engineer. Some still feel the pain. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 His writings form the basis for much of this Web site, with permission. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. Pilot Bob Loft, copilot Bert Stockstill, and flight engineer Don Repo were bringing the plane in to land at Miami International Airport. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. But he and his helper had 30 pounds of legs. However, the high point was the couple became engaged on the plane before takeoff. Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. He and his first wife traveled extensively in their RV throughout the United States and Canada. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 2 | Skeptoid Podcast. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. His left knee was dislocated, wrenched sideways at a vicious right angle. With almost twice the area of Rhode Island, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States has some of the most formidable terrain on Earth. He ended up making numerous trips out to the levee where the rescue operation base was located. The middle engine and tail section had broken away from the main fuselage, coming to a rest on their sides in a remote area far from the main crash site, which was located 18.7 miles northwest of Miami International Airport. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. 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. 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. Lockheed L-1011, aircraft 310, flight 401 headed from New York to Miami on Dec. 29, 1972. An elevation of only eight feet felt like being on a hilltop in the Everglades. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. He not only saw the face too, but recognized it as none other than Don Repo, the engineer who died on Flight 401. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 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. This becomes less surprising when you look at Fuller's publishing history. The underside of the L1011 was reflecting the ground lighting from the airport and the surrounding city which made it easy to identify the aircraft type although we couldn't identify the airline. There were 10 flight attendants in the main cabin serving 163 passengers. The most accurate account of the crash of Flight 401 was authored by a journalist from the Miami Herald, Rob Elder. In the cockpit, the first of six radio altimeter warnings began, signaling an impending crash. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. Books and TV movies frightened audiences, and this ghost story that had it all became a permanent fixture in great American tales of the paranormal. This quote, which was obviously a joke, was presented in the Ghost of Flight 401 as fact. . The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. The City of Miami Springs hosted a Beautiful Memorial Ceremony on Thursday, December 29, 2022. Now 41, he lives alone in Titusville, on a disability pension. 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. Eastern Flight 401. Flight 401 may refer to: Iberia Airlines Flight 401, crashed on 5 May 1965. Airline employees began spreading stories of apparitions to the point where Eastern management warned employees that they could face dismissal if caught, and any log book entries about such matters would be removed. The majority of the witnesses are the most professional of professional people and simply not really the sort of people to invent the stories that they tell. But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. In the narrow beam of his head lamp he now saw enormous strips of torn metal. I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. But, to play it safe, she always wore an add-on hairpiece and teased her hair up into a bouffant to make herself look taller. The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. Rights and reuse information. He usually wrote UFO books, and was best known for The Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney Hill case. Thanks to Jim Kalafus for the corrected names of Flight 401 victims drawn from Dade Country death certificate files and his continued research and participation in this effort. Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. Repo seemed to have a knack of turning up in the oddest of places. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 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. 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. Like so many such cases, its exploitation of a tragedy for financial gain and publicity was disrespectful to both the victims and the survivors. Read the accident report (PDF). 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. The bronze plaques are being donated as well as the granite base. ", 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. Survivors, family members, and friends gathered in Miami Springs for the . On December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing over 100 souls. Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. It's time to change that, say survivors and families of the victims, who hope to raise $15,000 for a granite block containing the names of those who died. He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. . "I thought I would fall apart," she told a newspaper in 1975. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was on its final approach into Miami shortly before midnight 50 years ago this month when a single light bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel failed to illuminate. Roberto Palma 6/10/27 Flight 401 Crash Site Hauntings |. He invested in real estate, too. We were standing outside the clubhouse on the ramp, getting ready to lock up the building before leaving, when we both noticed something unusual overhead. Water saturated by jet fuel filled his boots, burning his legs. 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