Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. The story of the crash and its aftermath were documented in John G. Fuller's 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401. 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. Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 Infantino also won a large legal settlement and lost everything. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. The mood was festive as people were leaving the coldness of New York to bring in 1973 on the beaches of Florida. Possible Curse of Seminole Indians | Dead bodies hung, lay and floated everywhere I looked. Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | I do recall that some gremlins were on it though and they kept messing up my landing!!!!". Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. Riding with him were two Federal Aviation Administration officials. She was killed. [6], The flight was commanded by Captain Robert Albin (Bob) Loft, age 55, a veteran pilot ranked 50th in seniority at Eastern Air Lines. [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). 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. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 Discretion was the better part of valor. The pilot Bob Loft and the flight engineer Don Repo were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. 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. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. Murray Yellin 6/9/11 By that time, I had also earned a commercial pilot license with airplane single and multi-engine and instrument ratings. He was a retired aircraft Engineer with Eastern Airlines in Miami, a survivor of the December 1972 crash of the L-1011 in the Everglades, and a Navy veteran of WWII. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 Two survivors died later as a result of . Sadly, she did not survive. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on The altimeter showed a decrease in altitude, but none of the crew noticed. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. It happened 40 years ago today on a cold dark night in the Everglades, a brand new "Whisperliner" jumbo jet. His wife said his ashes would be spread over the crash site in the Everglades that ''he loved so much,'' at a later date. His fishing and hunting skills helped put supper on the family table. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. Three women on the jetliner's tail, about 20 feet above the water, begged Bud to save them. [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. His book was later made into a TV movie. Sure enough, I recall that the initial restricted area was posted in a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) and set out a no-fly zone that had a one mile radius from the crash site up to 2,000 feet above mean sea level. All of us realized that many people had lost their lives and that there was a bit of mystery surrounding why a relatively new L1011 crashed into the Everglades on a clear, dark night. Her face burned from the jet fuel. He also attacked his other daughter, who luckily survived the attack. Marquis, Robert | The captain had ordered that the landing gear be lowered in. The old airboat, the airboat in which he carried injured passengers, waits on a rusty trailer with flat tires. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Footage of the incident appeared in the movie Days of Fury (1980), directed by Fred Warshofsky and hosted by Vincent Price. 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. Unborn son of Rochelle and Stefan Rubin The ultimate "yes sir, no sir" man, Bud shuffles reluctantly onto the porch, blinking furiously in the sunlight, wondering what's up. 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. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. I saw young couples broken up. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. It's a swamp, a flat swamp. Fuller recounts stories of paranormal events aboard other Eastern aircraft and the belief that these were caused by equipment salvaged from the wreckage of Flight 401. [5]:3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. Mama, heat up the frying pan. 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. Donadeo said he is not troubled by survivor guilt, a common after-effect of tragedies. She put in 11 more years with United before retiring. So, being the thoughtful brother-in-law he was, unbeknownst to me he had collected some of the wreckage of Flight 401. She was whipped. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. Surprisingly, he found that there were large pieces of wreckage still out in the glades. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 On December 29, 1972 pilot Robert "Bob" Loft and flight engineer Don Repo were piloting Eastern Airlines Flight 401 from JFK Airport (NY) to Miami, Florida. Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 Ways to check-in for your flight including online and on your mobile. They were both 26 years old. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. Please dont leave me! Infantino yelled. Barbara Ann Saal Ethel L. Jackson 3/8/08 It was a routine trip for Flight 401 until 11:32 p.m. when the plane began its approach to Miami International Airport, and an indicator light for the nose landing gear had not lit up. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. Some still feel the pain. 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]. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. After lowering the gear, First Officer Stockstill noticed that the landing gear indicator, a green light identifying that the nose gear is properly locked in the "down" position, had not illuminated. That left two seats open. The plane, a new "Whisperliner," could transport 229 passengers. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. The Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Florida Everglades. Angelo was a friend to all who know him, generous with his time to anyone who needed him and a devoted husband and father. Eduardo Jaramillo 8/2/32 Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. The approach controller cleared the flight to climb to 2,000ft (610m), and then hold west over the Everglades. She wore panty hose and looked like shed been scalped with a razor. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. Funny how people scream for God at a time like that. 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. Of five survivors The Herald located this week, three talked freely about Flight 401. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. "It survived that night, just like me. In 2005, TANS Peru Flight 204 crashed into the Amazonian jungle, leaving a trail of bodies and wreckage scattered across the rainforest. 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. Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, A few minutes later Leonhards radio crackled. Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. Nery Palma 7/12/34 In the photograph below, here is the listing of who is who. The point of this entire story is to simply tell you that yes - planes can be haunted. He likes to think about those days. My log book shows that our flight lasted 1.2 hours. [5]:6,16[9] However, the NTSB concluded that the captain's tumor did not contribute to the accident. 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. 09:23AM EST Miami Intl - MIA. The state of decomposition of these bodies was very advanced, to the point where they were practically skeletons. 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. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. The government considered him totally disabled. "Nobody paid him to go out there and try to rescue people," says Ken Pine, who recently fixed Bud's roof. [5]:30[6]:99 The aircraft was fleet number 310, and the 10th TriStar delivered to the carrier. She had nothing. 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. The silence was broken only by the intermittent croaking of bullfrogs and the occasional rustle of tall reeds as an unseen creature passed through them. By 1 a.m., the rookie warden had launched his airboat. Ruiz, 63, of West Miami-Dade, still has aches and pains but returned to flying until Eastern folded in 1991. The Ghost of Flight 401. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 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). He lost interest in his job and just wanted to be alone. The strange tales of the ghostly airmen of Flight of 401 circulated in the airline community. We had him out by 5:30 in the morning. That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. 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. Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. More than a quarter mile long, the cone-shaped debris field was filled with an apocalyptic jumble of human carnage, personal belongings and aircraft wreckage. Someone had seen his frogging light. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. At 11:32 p.m., Capt. Sharon Norene Gatti 3/2/48 Sharon Transue was a replacement crew member out of reserve, didn't feel as much a . If one more time he could harvest a mess of frog legs in the Everglades. If you would like to contribute to this cause, donations can be made to: National Air Disaster Foundation (write "EAL 401 Memorial" on the check), You may also make donations by credit card on their website: www.PlaneSafe.org. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. Patricia George was on top of the coat closet. "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . "Then I saw this great big fireball and the whole 'glades lit up. The hours passed, and still no rescuers had arrived. Email subscription; Email subscription; . We're having legs tonight. Contained Within. Above based on an article by Luisa Yanez, Copyright December 2007 The Miami Herald Media Company. 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. Shock had taken over. "Ladies, you're safe up there. That subsides. An interesting side show to the crash of Flight 401 was documented in the 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401, by John G. Fuller. 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. I don't question what the Lord does.". [5]:2729, A company employeetechnical officer Angelo Donadeo, 47, returning to Miami from an assignment in New Yorkaccompanied the flight crew for the journey, but was officially an off-duty, "nonrevenue passenger". 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. It looked like someone had poured gasoline on a campfire, and poof, up it went. Curiously, Leonhard never heard the impact. He can't remember anyone's name now. Only their bedroom has an air conditioner. Rosa Losano 11/1/01 Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 In the cockpit: Capt. 2h 48m. He was an aviation business student at Miami-Dade Community College then, and used some of his money to start a commuter airline. HONOLULU, FEB. 25 -- As investigators questioned the pilots and ground crew today, Coast Guard and Navy rescue workers recovered from the Pacific two seats and a 4-by-6-foot . Blackness. The crew of Flight 401 taken aboard the jet earlier on the day of the crash: the flight attendants had gathered at the tail of the plane. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. 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. Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute | Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49 Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? He was trapped beneath the water. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. /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 . Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was on its way from New York to Miami on December 29th, 1972, with 13 crew and 163 passengers onboard. The most accurate account of the crash of Flight 401 was authored by a journalist from the Miami Herald, Rob Elder. His hunting escapades on his air boat meant that he was very familiar with the area where Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades. 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 probed it with his flashlight beam. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. 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. [8], In all, 75 survived the crash67 of the 163 passengers and eight of the 10 flight attendants. December 21, 2022, 5:00 AM. Lloyd Irving Bearman 1/16/23 He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. For his efforts, he received the Humanitarian Award from the National Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation and the "Alumitech Airboat Hero Award", from the American Airboat Search and Rescue Association. A scene from the TV movie "The Crash of Flight 401" (1978), Eastern Airlines Flight 401: The Ghosts of Memories Past. The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV 1978) - YouTube | 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. [5]:4 Fifty seconds after reaching their assigned altitude, Captain Loft instructed First Officer Stockstill to put the L-1011 on autopilot. At the time, the decision to change seats carried no meaning. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 He knows exactly how he'd go about it. of 401 King Street, London, W6 9NJ, United Kingdom (+612 9691 0176). She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. That was the first time I had heard of the crash. I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." It looked as though the L1011 was in a shallow left turn and dragged the left wing tip in the swamp. 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. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. 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. And now, no one was flying the plane. Follow my voice. Within minutes, six to eight passengers crawled out of the dark and were seated on the scrap of flooring, shivering, afraid and in shock. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. The bent, white-haired man in the mirror has a bad heart and breathes from an oxygen machine, hasn't been frogging in a coon's age, and hasn't been in his airboat since, well, he can't remember. Anne Ponte 1/7/16 Frank Borman, a former NASA astronaut and Eastern's senior vice president of operations, was awoken at home by a telephone call explaining of a probable crash. "I think I can still do it. Flight 401 - Autopilot indicator | On September 4, 1954, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 departed from Aachen, West Germany, destined for Porto Alegre, Brazil. It would be hard to make up a plausible story like Ronald Infantino's -- too sad, too joyful. Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. The jet bounced once, then hit again. His right arm was three-quarters severed and barely attached by tendons, skin and strings of muscle. Copyright 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. He was out there gigging frogs when it happened. If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. "Remember what the doctor said," Nancy chimes in. Alina Junco 5/2/44 With no one flying the plane or noticing its steady descent at flight speed, it flew itself into the ground. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. 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. 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. You don't want to be in the water with me.". Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. 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. [6]:102,108 Stockstill was killed on impact, while Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck before he could be transported to a hospital. Then wham! I had first, second and third-degree burns all over my body. ", Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute. "That's what really gets me. [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. 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