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Source: FAA. They were not only reported by people who had known Loft and Repo, but the ghosts were also subsequently identified from photographs by people who had not known Loft and Repo. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge Sunday . Bud no longer worked as a game warden - his day job was laying carpet. Caridad Fermina Hernandez 10/11/32 We exited the area and returned to Opa locka Airport, but our conversations were subdued. I was coping with someone who was disabled. (Deer in south Florida are almost anemic compared to deer in other parts of the country.) 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. at Highland Cemetery in Deport, Texas. Edward presented the ring in a glass of champagne. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. No gunshots. A pale glow lightened the sky above Miami more than 40 miles away. It was only then that it had hit him. Source: Google Sites. Elder, R., Elder, S. Crash. He was mentioned in a book, The Crash of Flight 401, later made into a B-movie, and helped a Hollywood writer with the awful Ghosts of Flight 401, about commercial jets haunted by the dead pilots. Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. He felt helpless, hearing what sounded like hundreds of voices coming at him from different directions. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. At 11:32, they aborted the landing, climbed to 2,000 feet and swung west over the Everglades to work out the problem. He likes to think about those days. Christina was the youngest survivor of the accident. This guy had been hurled from the plane like a human cannonball. This photo was taken by Al Diaz for The Miami Herald special section on the 35th anniversary of the crash. The disaster of this flight still remains as one of the worst in American aviation history. Stewardess Beverly Raposa, then 25, noticed nothing unusual as the flight passed high over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Miami International Airport. The old airboat, the airboat in which he carried injured passengers, waits on a rusty trailer with flat tires. The jet actually began losing altitude, so gradually that no one noticed until the very end. "The one accurate quote in the book," Borman comments, "was made by Jim Ashlock when he called the whole story 'a bunch of crap.'". The final leg of the flight was canceled as a result of this fire. Branches had been recently snapped off all the way around the opening, all pointing inward. His fishing and hunting skills helped put supper on the family table. He survived, barely, with his right arm nearly severed, his left knee broken and his chest crushed. In the end, it appears that the source of the stories was an article in an issue of the Flight Safety Foundation. I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." Eastern Air Lines flight 401 encountered no problems while cruising between the two cities. I don't recall any large scorched patches of saw grass, but I remember a few small burned areas. Lloyd Irving Bearman 1/16/23 My God, what do we do now? Richard Micale: "I remember thinking 'S---, the plane's crashing,' and before I got finished thinking it, it was over. In the narrow beam of his head lamp he now saw enormous strips of torn metal. Raposa popped the release buckle and fell into the marsh, landing on her hands and knees. Like so many such cases, its exploitation of a tragedy for financial gain and publicity was disrespectful to both the victims and the survivors. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. Onboard the aircraft, all members of the Flight Crew worked solely on their problem. Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts. 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. 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. What happened next must have happened very quickly. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. Charles Kuchenbrod 7/16/30 document.write(theYear) Flamingo Magazine, This Recent University of Tampa Graduate Just Won the Florida Filmmaker Award. Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 This killed the First Officer instantly. Hey!" "Grounding the Ghost of Flight 401." She dug down into the black muck, cupped a double handful to her face and smeared it all over the affected areas. No thanks LOYLESS FUNERAL HOME, Land O'Lakes/Lutz Chapel. theYear = now.getYear() 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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 1 | 490-492. 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. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | It seemed to be miles off course. . She had no first-aid kit. He put his arm around her, and they began slogging through knee-deep muck and water. Don Repo survived long enough to reach the hospital, but he also proved to be too badly injured. 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. Starring. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. Born in Seymour, Conn. on May 8, 1929, to Julius and Mary Kaslo Ulrich. There was a lot of activity on the ground, but we couldn't see much detail from 3,000 feet. 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. The warden noted nothing of interest. He carried survivors to safety and made them as comfortable as he could. The landing gear from Flight 401 at the crash site; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. The haunted aircraft components that harbored the flight engineer's benevolent ghost entered the hall of fame of 1970s urban legends. The story goes that parts from it were salvaged and installed in other L-1011s, and almost immediately, the ghost stories began. Continue Reading: Survivor Stories and Memorial Efforts. Murray Yellin 6/9/11 I don't question what the Lord does.". Follow my voice!. Eventually, the investigations were concluded and most, but not all, of the wreckage was removed or salvaged from the Everglades. We've been married going on 18 years now." , Elder, R. "Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts." A crawlspace beneath a cockpit is one thing, a galley oven is quite another. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. 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. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. Janice Testa 9/12/52 Luis Bancroft 10/10/48 Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 The last thing Raposa remembered seeing before she was knocked out was a waterfall of colors. Other than those observations, I don't recall much more from that flight. What songs will we sing? one passenger asked. He had a broken arm and some cuts and scrapes, but no other visible wounds, Leonhard said. Rose Marie Cillis - Mark Paternoster May 15, 2021, 11:07 pm. 21 Mar 2017. 2017. At 11:32 p.m., Capt. A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. The crew did finally notice the situation taking place, but nowhere near in time to prevent the inevitable. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. Im sure they all ran away. She spit the words out quickly, doing her best to sound convincing. As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. Song - The Ghost of Flight 401 - Lyrics | In recent months Canti and others have made pilgrimages to Bud's screened door to hear his story. The Ghost of Flight 401 was a book of nearly pure fiction, as was the TV movie that followed it. Possible Curse of Seminole Indians | In 1992, Hurricane Andrew blew the roof of the house across the street through his front windows. They go deep into the heart of the Florida Everglades to contact the victims' ghosts and find out what really happened that fateful night in 1972. Bill and I left for our respective homes after securing the clubhouse. A scene from the TV movie "The Crash of Flight 401" (1978), Eastern Airlines Flight 401: The Ghosts of Memories Past. Richard Childs 5/21/52 Following the crash, Raposa was praised for her valor. The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | Flight attendants of flight 401. She was whipped. Wreckage site of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. This position is with the Agency Services area of DTMB. I mean, I was a single person with no family. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. 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. Thirty minutes later, Leonhard and his passengers suddenly burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass. Klaus Schenck 9/5/39 Web. Ten feet in front of them were what looked like two mannequins to Leonharda partially clothed woman lying faceup in the mud and a naked man lying facedown. Edward E. Ulrich died at home on May 25, 2021. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Game warden Gray Leonhard in the 70s; Photography courtesy of Gray Leonhard. Now for the big decisions - who gets to ride with us? Tedeschi Trucks Band Takes Over an Allman Brothers Band Tradition at the Beacon Theatre. Reports began to take on much more sinister overtone, at least in the eyes of the witness involved. From L to R, Captain Robert Albin Loft, pilot Albert John Stockstill, and flight engineer Donald Louis Repo. He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. "Then I saw this great big fireball and the whole 'glades lit up. Right: Beverly celebrates her 26th birthday in Mercy Hospital, January 4th 1973, with fellow surviving flight attendants Trudy Smith and Sharon Transue (Photo: Roy Bartley, Miami Herald). An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. About us | Our programming | Become a supporter | Privacy. Marquis, Robert | Startled, and now fully awake, he wondered, Whats going on here? A former crew chief on a B-52 in Vietnam, he had a keener sense than most passengers about a plane in trouble. Dunning, B. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | Skeptoid Media, After graduation, he hitchhiked to Oregon and California to visit relatives, returning to Connecticut a couple of years later. Their marriage spanned 47 years. The unintentional jar apparently caused the planes nose to tilt down a few degrees. Eugene Schenker 6/24/30 Johnson, Charles | Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. 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. It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. Rochelle Rubin 1/5/48 (she was the first victim discovered by the search team This was not the only sighting registered. Loft told Stockstill to put the plane on autopilot while Repo went below to the avionics bay (called the "hell hole") to manually check the landing gear. The harrowing tale of three survivors of the 1972 crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401 into the Everglades. Marquis is also survived by a son, Donald Marquis of Altamonte Springs; a daughter, Terri Mabie of Tucson; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Combined with numerous anonymous witnesses and countless tales, the rumors spread throughout the aviation community. Back row from the left: Mercy Ruiz, Sue Tebbs, Adrienne Hamilton, Trudy Smith. 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. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. They died. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. 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. I have lost contact with Bill Elliott. A team catalogues the mangled remains of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 aircraft at the crash site in the Everglades. Captain Bob Loft is often earmarked as the notorious subject of this haunting, but the truth is that Don Repo is far more active and more regularly witnessed. A glance out a window, after all, would have shown nothing but the black Everglades below. Ethel L. Jackson 3/8/08 Genres. An hour or so later, a Christmas carol floated through the air, reassuring Infantino he was not alone. The rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. Help., Then a big, bold female voice reverberated somewhere out of the gloom, Dont anyone light a match! A few minutes later, If you can hear my voice, come to me! Introducing the Keys Quirkiest Resident. "I think I can still do it. Officially, Eastern Air Lines denied anything was wrong with their aircraft or personnel. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . 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. The Sun Flying Club wasn't really a "flying" club. He usually wrote UFO books, and was best known for The Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney Hill case. I was tired and hit the sack as soon as I got home. The City of Miami Springs hosted a Beautiful Memorial Ceremony on Thursday, December 29, 2022. 2017. "He was just a guy out there frogging and minding his own business who knew he had to help people in trouble. Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others. That doesn't haunt me either . Colonel. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. (Ron Infantino) On the 29th of December 1972, an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar landing in Miami, Florida plowed into the Everglades well short of the airport, throwing dozens of survivors into a grisly fight for survival. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. Many of the survivors were also stripped of their clothes and this contributed to medical problems with all the bacteria in the Everglades water and the relatively cold temperatures that night. It crashed into the Everglades 18.7 miles northwest of the airport, eight miles north of Tamiami Trail, about 100 yards east of the L-67 canal levee. 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. He'd get that look. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. 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. DALLAS - December 29, 2022, will mark a half-century since the fatal crash of Eastern Air Lines (EA) Flight 401. Gas gangrene attacked his lungs. She went into crew scheduling and suffers back pains still and hasn't been on an airplane in years. Minor, Miami Herald) Below, Right, Mrs Leona Levine on March 15, 1973 (Joe Elbert, Miami Herald). She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. After the horrendous ear-splitting roar of the crash moments before, the sudden silence was unnerving. The only piece of wreckage I did keep, and which I still have in my possession, is one of the plastic passenger window panes. And now, no one was flying the plane. Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on The Infantinos were exhausted from celebrating Christmas with Rons parents in New York. 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. . Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Infantino also won a large legal settlement and lost everything. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. In the hospital, a nine-inch steel rod was inserted into the bone. The time was 9:20 p.m. I don't remember the take-off or the landing that day, but I vividly remember the meteorological conditions and the crash site. Flight Nurse jobs 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. The government considered him totally disabled. One curious aspect of these sightings is that people always saw one or the other. "There are is so much friction, so many arguments. 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 bronze plaques are being donated as well as the granite base. . "We consider it the day our second life began," Christina Casado-Acorn, said of Dec. 29, 1972. Skeptoid Podcast. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . Leonhard happened to be looking southeast across the glades. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 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. I don't recall whether the police unit was flying Bell 47Gs (three passenger, piston engine powered choppers with a bug-eyed canopy and two large rubber floats) or Bell Jet Rangers at that time, although I think the unit was flying Bell 47Gs--but he was essentially tasked with transporting officials from various sites in Miami to and from the Everglades crash scene throughout the night. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. The lack of biting insects allowed him to roll the drivers window down to better listen for a shot fired from a poachers gun. The Senior Architecture Analyst provides architecture . Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45 Please dont leave me! Infantino yelled. 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. Loft even spoke to the ground crew, insisting that no checks were required as he had already done them. Photos: AL DIAZ | MIAMI HERALD. May Albury, Verena Bieri, Carl Bolufe, Rigoberto Bolufe, Sandra Burt, Gustavo Cassado, Mrs Xeimara Casado, Miss Christina Casado, Ann Connell, Barry Connell, 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, Allen Weiss, Lorenzo Zetlin. But Infantino couldnt follow the voice. 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." The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. Santiago Flight 513: A Fictional Time Warp. The Ghost of Flight 401. Flight 401 left John F. Kennedy at 9:20 p.m. You know what would make Bud Marquis happy? Burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass that no one noticed until the very end there the... 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