She returns with a musty volume that smells like a lion's den. They rushed to rescue survivors. A glance out a window, after all, would have shown nothing but the black Everglades below. He was out there gigging frogs when it happened. 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. His 1977 book, Crash, tells the story of many of the passengers, the investigation and aftermath of Flight 401. [5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. It became his navigation beacon. 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. Instead of landing in . We're having legs tonight. Lost - Passengers and Crew (Name and Birthdate), Elise Grace Agate 9/3/42 I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. Pick up your airboat and meet me at the Twenty Mile Boat Ramp. As you may know, the mansion is an historic landmark in Miami, located just north of the airport it served as the location of the NTSB hearings into the crash. "Ladies, you're safe up there. They didn't find each other until morning. (No one had a camera, so I don't have any personal photos.) [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. On a moonless night, in the beam of his head lamp, the frog eyes would glow like rubies. The two girls in the photograph that are having the bunny ears (Patricia Ghyssels) and the one jokingly being choked (Stephanie Stanich) were the only two flight attendants who did not survive the crash. [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. A scene from the TV movie "The Crash of Flight 401" (1978), Eastern Airlines Flight 401: The Ghosts of Memories Past. Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Flight 401 from New York to Miami took off from JFK Airport at 9:20 pm. its related bodies corporate and their respective officers, employees, contractors and agents (Promotion Parties) will not . His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. /24-7PressRelease/ - MIAMI, FL, December 07, 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 . About Flight 401 | Some still feel the pain. A team catalogues the mangled remains of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 aircraft at the crash site in the Everglades. The Ghost of Flight 401 TV Movie 1978 1 h 40 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 617 YOUR RATING Rate Drama Mystery Thriller An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. Thank you, Rob. Two later died, leaving 75 survivors and 101 fatalities. Rosemary Mancuso 10/31/49 The television movie The Ghost of Flight 401, which was broadcast on NBC during February 1978, offers a fictionalized depiction of the crash and alleged ghost sightings. He carried survivors to safety and made them as comfortable as he could. 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. Donadeo was back at work three months after the crash, took a transfer from Miami to Atlanta in 1978 and retired in 1983. Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. His right arm was badly hurt. The slight forward pressure on the stick would have caused the aircraft to enter a slow descent, maintained by the CWS system. I was coping with someone who was disabled. He saw a man standing, shocked, in knee-deep water. An original floor board from Flight 401 remains in the archives at History Miami in South Florida. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. 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. 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. No gunshots. His required surgery. That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53 Mama, heat up the frying pan. Sometimes, back when there were no cell phones or GPS electronics to help navigate, he'd get lost at night. 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. Obviously, I'm not a hunter, but I don't begrudge those who do hunt responsibly. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 Braulio Corretjer 1/5/28 Lockheed L-1011 Cockpit | Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. Eric Olson holding a piece of wreckage from Flight 401. Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 The mood was festive as people were leaving the coldness of New York to bring in 1973 on the beaches of Florida. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. Rose Lina Zollo 7/13/43. The apparitions of Loft and Repo were invariably described as being extremely lifelike. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars. "Hey! The crash was featured in season five of the Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series Mayday, in a 2009 episode called "Fatal Distraction".[9]. Of the 176 passengers and crew members aboard Flight 401, 77 survived the initial crash. 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. It was rare for commercial airliners to fly westbound directly overhead Opa locka Airport at such a relatively low altitude. 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. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401. That was a godsend because I got to meet and befriend many of the club members, most of whom were successful small business owners enjoying the fruits of their labor by owning and operating private aircraft (something that is almost cost prohibitive in today's aviation, regulatory and business environments). From this point on, the breakup of the fuselage became more extensive, scattering metal fragments, cabin fittings, and passenger seats widely. They died. Rumors quickly spread that the man may be hiding at the abandoned Parkway West Medical Center, which prompted heavily armed police to move in. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 Dale Ann Mazzone 5/19/51 "Nobody paid him to go out there and try to rescue people," says Ken Pine, who recently fixed Bud's roof. Speeding across the 'glades in his airboat, Bud was the first rescuer on the scene. Rons eyes blinked open upon hearing the engines roar to full power. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. You could hear the cry of death. 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. Refresh the page,. Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived. 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. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. 3h 15m. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | 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. 09:23AM EST Miami Intl - MIA. I really do think I can gig some frogs if I had to. Photos: AL DIAZ | MIAMI HERALD. [12][13] The training is designed to make problem solving in a cockpit much more efficient, thus causing less distraction for the crew. Nicholas Minguzzi 8/5/68 My mother never told me the flight attendant's name, but she did say that she had suffered a broken back in the crash. Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49 Incident at Exeter concerned a series of well-publicized UFO sightings in and around the town of Exeter, New Hampshire in . Little did I expect to see what he actually had. 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. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . Bud's heroics were featured prominently a few days later in the Miami Herald. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. James Yandolino 3/7/52 Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. "That's what really gets me. The crash occurred while the entire flight crew were preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light. In the photograph below, here is the listing of who is who. 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. A burnt-out landing gear indicator light his airboat, bud was the first on... 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