Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. Brief Synopsis. At least they thought they had. [6]:107108 Donadeo, the lone survivor of the four flight-deck occupants, recovered from his injuries. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. There was a lot of activity on the ground, but we couldn't see much detail from 3,000 feet. I saw people burned in agony. Wrong. Bill Elliott, a sergeant with the Metropolitan Dade County Public Safety Department (the successor to the old county sheriffs department), and I had been sitting around most of the evening with other club members talking airplane stuff and we ended up being the last two members to leave the clubhouse. A jumbo jet crashed in the Everglades north of the Tamiami Trial, his sergeant said. 12:38PM EST John F Kennedy Intl - JFK. 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. 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. "It needs new points and plugs, maybe a new set of rings. Now it was her turn. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. Albert J. Stockstill 6/9/33 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. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 departed New York for Miami on December 29, 1972. We had him out by 5:30 in the morning. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. So far, the Board of Directors of the Curtiss Mansion has graciously given their approval to place the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Memorial on it's grounds. In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. That doesn't haunt me either . [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. For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars. 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. They even made cheesy movie about it. 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. 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!. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. Song - The Ghost of Flight 401 - Lyrics | 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. Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70 He is completely burned. No more clothes on his body .". I diplomatically told James that I couldn't take possession of the large pieces of wreckage. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. Well launch from there.. The captain had ordered that the landing gear be lowered in. The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. [6]:110, Investigation into the aircraft's autopilot showed that the force required to switch to CWS mode was different between the A and B channels (15 and 20lbf or 65 and 90N, respectively). Then came scattered parts from the number 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. Loft, Robert Albin | Jerome Becker 6/27/39 The most accurate account of the crash of Flight 401 was authored by a journalist from the Miami Herald, Rob Elder. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 His last prospect, Teresa Trapnell, listened to his pitch, didn't buy, but told her insurance executive husband, Bob, what a swell salesman she had met that day. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Ever the good Catholic, she crossed herself in the dark and silently prayed, Oh God, please let that be true.. Carmen Jorge 7/7/46 She worked in the executive offices at Easterns Miami base. Walker's body is still fairly intact. They failed to notice that the autopilot had been disconnected inadvertently and, subsequently, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. He probed it with his flashlight beam. Then he tells the story the best he can. It didn't light. That was the first time I had heard of the crash. Indeed, they said, some . The aircraft was completely demolished, with wreckage, bodies, and survivors strewn over a wide area. Before a bad back forced an early retirement, Bud laid carpet, grew avocados and worked as a game warden in the Everglades. 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. [5]:30[6]:99 The aircraft was fleet number 310, and the 10th TriStar delivered to the carrier. Unfortunately it did so as a scattered wreck over the marshes of Florida's Everglades. She had nothing. The majority of this equipment was fitted into Eastern's L-1011 N318EA while it was being assembled in Palmdale. Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. His last complete thought before losing consciousness was, This is going to be one hell of a rough landing., Beverly Raposa with her Eastern Airlines stewardess class in the 60s; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. My God, what do we do now? 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. Lockheed L-1011 Landing Gear Lever | There was an enormous flash of flame as two fuel tanks burst open. With his left, he held onto the boat and walked beside it to the levee. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. Not shown, Sharon Transue (she was taking the photo). She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. Roberto Palma 6/10/27 . He can't remember anyone's name now. [11] The swamp absorbed much of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. Rosario Messina 2/29/26 There were 75 survivors. 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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | (It was later expanded to a much larger area either later that same day or the next day.). He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to a hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. Colonel. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. This is the story about the night a jumbo jet landed among the pig frogs and alligators, the cottonmouth snakes and yellow-crowned night herons, in the Everglades. Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 Alina Junco 5/2/44 She had no first-aid kit. From his vantage point atop the levee, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Officer Gray Leonhard, then 24 years old, had a commanding view across the vast darkened marsh. Tuesday. Two passing pilots saw it and called the airport. I mean, I was a single person with no family. The petite brunette stood just 5 feet 1.5 inches tall. Although he was a passenger, he rode in the cockpit with pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer. The Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Florida Everglades. Ethel L. Jackson 3/8/08 The plane was crossing over the Everglades on Dec. 29, 1972 . Two years after the crash, Anita and Franklin Kent's lives were taken up by endless doctor visits. Eddie Albert featured as "Dunn", a fictionalized version of Captain Robert Loft. The cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. Some of those he saved were there, including flight attendants Mercy Ruiz and Sue Tebbs, as well as Beverly Raposa, the flight attendant who rallied passengers to safety after the crash. You can see the brand name on the oven instruction plate. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa, Stephanie Stanich. The tall building behind the plane is Building 16 at MIA, the former headquarters of Eastern Air Lines. This killed the First Officer instantly. [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. 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. Barry L. Mancuso 10/19/44 But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. Raposa popped the release buckle and fell into the marsh, landing on her hands and knees. The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. Flight 401 left John F. Kennedy at 9:20 p.m. It was broken in the crash and he avoids putting any strain on it -- good advice for anyone his age, 67. "I was wounded in World War II when the ship I was on was hit by a kamikaze. Maureen I. Chesler 10/12/47 About Flight 401 | While the Flight Crew tried to troubleshoot the faulty indicator, the steering yoke was accidentally nudged, causing a function of the autopilot to begin a . Combined with numerous anonymous witnesses and countless tales, the rumors spread throughout the aviation community. Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. It seemed to be miles off course. This was only about 12 hours after the L1011 crashed! An original floor board from Flight 401 remains in the archives at History Miami in South Florida. Flight 401 - Survivors and those who were lost Definition: A listing of those who survived and those who were lost. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. Robert L. Marquis - "Bud" to friends - wanted to eat frogs' legs. The most interesting story in The Ghost of Flight 401 revolves around the conflict between the employees and airline management in regards to the ghost sightings. In recent months Canti and others have made pilgrimages to Bud's screened door to hear his story. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | Bill and I left for our respective homes after securing the clubhouse. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. Later that afternoon or evening, Bill Elliott came back to the clubhouse where we were all waiting for him so he could let us know what he did and saw. Bound for Miami, Flight 401 took off from New York's JFK at 9:20 p.m. Hansel owned a single engine Piper Comanche 250, registered as N7510P, that held four people, including the pilot. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 is coming in for a landing in Miami. Julia Lustig 5/30/25 With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. Based on Fuller's book, it emphasized the ghost sightings. 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. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. "You didn't have nothing to worry about," he'd tell her, finding a seat on the porch, from where he could hear the barred owls and their singular "who-cooks-for-you" calls, exciting and mournful at once. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. Am I the only one left alive? he wondered. "That's what really gets me. One hundred and three lives were lost. A similar situation appeared in the Thai movie Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. I wish I had that kind of money today instead of 20 years ago. Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. With the aircraft in mid-turn, the left wingtip hit the surface first, then the left engine and the left landing gear,[5]:8 making three trails through the sawgrass, each 5ft (1.5m) wide and more than 100ft (30m) long. Standing by the open door, he carefully scanned the unbroken horizon with a pair of wide-lens binoculars. The experienced flight crew was distracted when the landing gear light failed to come on, which they believed was caused by a blown bulb. [5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. Richard Childs 5/21/52 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. 09:23AM EST Miami Intl - MIA. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. December 21, 2022, 5:00 AM. Wait a minute, he said. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". Mildred Katz 1/8/34 It happened 40 years ago today on a cold dark night in the Everglades, a brand new "Whisperliner" jumbo jet. The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV 1978) - YouTube | Nobody, not the pilots nor passengers, knew anything was amiss. Mom apparently worked closely with that flight attendant. The mood was festive as people were leaving the coldness of New York to bring in 1973 on the beaches of Florida. If cities had soundtracks, none would sound quite like Nashville. Greta Foye 3/19/45 Thirty minutes later, Leonhard and his passengers suddenly burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass. He was trapped beneath the water. There were also other artifacts such as yellow airline life preservers and panes of plastic passenger windows. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. Leonhard doesnt remember which one. 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. Trudy Smith didn't return to flying. Bud asks his wife to look for his scrapbooks. Of five survivors The Herald located this week, three talked freely about Flight 401. The hours passed, and still no rescuers had arrived. Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on Off I went to check with the FAA Flight Service Station. His hunting escapades on his air boat meant that he was very familiar with the area where Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. Now 41, he lives alone in Titusville, on a disability pension. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. His wife said his ashes would be spread over the crash site in the Everglades that ''he loved so much,'' at a later date. There were 176 people aboard the state-of-the-art Lockheed L-1011, which was nicknamed the. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. "I was engaged and my fiance was killed in a drunk-driving accident two months before the wedding," she said. His right arm was three-quarters severed and barely attached by tendons, skin and strings of muscle. 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. Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. if (theYear < 1900) Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 [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. Bud wants to. 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. They rushed to rescue survivors. 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. Repo was evacuated to a hospital, but later died from his injuries. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was a 26 year resident of Christmas, FL. Part 243 - PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION. His 1977 book, Crash, tells the story of many of the passengers, the investigation and aftermath of Flight 401. Flight 401 may refer to: Iberia Airlines Flight 401, crashed on 5 May 1965. The warden noted nothing of interest. We dont have a light on our nose gear yet.. It was more accurately a "tie-down"club; the members owned their aircraft and joined the club to be able to tie-down their aircraft at reasonable costs and have access to a ramp area where they could perform routine maintenance on their planes. He was out that night on his airboat, gigging frogs with a new friend, Ray Dickens. Bud spent his time arresting grizzled gator poachers and rough-cob deer thieves, cane-polers with too many bream on their stringers and feral teenage boys selling protected Indigo snakes to pet stores. Then, on Saturday, December 29, a fleet of over 100 airboats carried survivors, their families and others to the crash site for a special memorial. "I consider the survivors 75 miracles. The government considered him totally disabled. in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or related subject area Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 B738. 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. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. The court citing, among other reasons, that the claimants were found to be actors or participants in newsworthy stories or events, that the book a nonfictionalized account based on the authors own investigationfell under the legitimate public interest exception. Dale Ann Mazzone 5/19/51 Wreckage from Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, Buried up to his neck in freezing water and muck, completely naked except for the elastic rims of his socks, severely injured, shivering and in shock, Infantino feebly called into the night: Lilly, where are you? Little did I expect to see what he actually had. I should add that Dorothy R. Loft and her two children, Kimberly and Robert, Jr sued Fuller for invasion of privacy over the book . Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. Forgotten about him, actually. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Refresh the page,. In 2005, TANS Peru Flight 204 crashed into the Amazonian jungle, leaving a trail of bodies and wreckage scattered across the rainforest. The crash occurred while the entire flight crew was preoccupied with . Angelo was a friend to all who know him, generous with his time to anyone who needed him and a devoted husband and father. According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. Dead bodies hung, lay and floated everywhere I looked. Thank you, Rob. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 Eight passengers became infected; doctors used hyperbaric chambers to treat the infections. ValuJet 592 went down in May 1996, killing all 110 on board. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. "Then I saw this great big fireball and the whole 'glades lit up. The altimeter showed a decrease in altitude, but none of the crew noticed. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. Rons eyes blinked open upon hearing the engines roar to full power. The jet bounced once, then hit again. With the engine dangerously wide open - the boat slipped over the grass at 35 mph - he maneuvered around all obstacles. 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. I was a kid, 21 years old. We had a habit of informally gathering at the clubhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings to down a few beers and catch up on all the news that had any impact on us. Front row: Sue Tebbs, Dottie Warnock, Beverly Raposa and Stephanie Stanich. She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. She left Eastern and worked in the travel agency industry. The Ghosts of Flight 401, part of the Discovery+ series Shock Docs, emphasizes the supernatural legacy of the crash. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. 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. December 29, 2022 / 10:12 AM / CBS Miami. Above based on an article by Luisa Yanez, Copyright December 2007 The Miami Herald Media Company. Let them not be forgotten. Hey! (Deer in south Florida are almost anemic compared to deer in other parts of the country.) About a year after the crash of Flight 401, she told me that one of the flight attendants who had survived the crash had come back to work at Eastern, but was assigned to the executive secretarial pool while she recovered from her physical injuries and tried to cope with her mental anguish. Sadly, she did not survive. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. This photo taken in September 2009. Anne Ponte 1/7/16 NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. From this point on, the breakup of the fuselage became more extensive, scattering metal fragments, cabin fittings, and passenger seats widely. In the photograph below, here is the listing of who is who. The temperature is in the low 70s, and its beautiful out there tonight.. I checked my log book entry for Dec. 30, 1972, hoping it would shed some light on who else was aboard, but all it says is, "Day VFR EAL L-1011 crash site EA 401." 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. Johnson, Charles | Jose Rego 9/5/19 The oven choices for airlines were either Nordskog or the Bowmar/Calrod brand. Meanwhile, 1,100 miles to the north, an Eastern Airlines jumbo jet lifted off in bitter cold weather from New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport. With determination born of her Portuguese grandparents work ethic and her work on a 160-acre dairy farm as a young girl growing up in Rhode Island, the former Girl Scout troop leader shouted, Im a stewardess. Bud helped the man into the airboat and poured him coffee from the thermos. My former brother-in-law, James Anderson, was an avid air boat owner and hunting enthusiast. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. Bernard A. Goldfuss 11/2/22 Instead, it took 35 years. Survivors described a flash or spark that exploded through the cabin as the jet ripped apart. 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