On December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a widebody L1011 jet, crashed into the Everglades while attempting to land at Miami International Airport. The final leg of the flight was canceled as a result of this fire. Memorial unveiled paying homage to 101 victims who perished on Eastern Flight 401. The cloak of black was made all the more intense by the surreal stillness. For over thirty years Charlie worked with the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller. It was quite possible that the landing gear was in the correct configuration. 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. The flight, destined for Kyiv, Ukraine, took off on Jan. 8, 2020 from Tehran . In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". No gunshots. Exactly fifty years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 mysteriously slammed into the Florida Everglades at over 200 miles per hour. Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Two passing pilots saw it and called the airport. With the autopilot engaged, the malfunctioning light was dismantled by two members of the crew. That alone adds credibility to their accounts. Loft accidentally nudged the control yoke, perhaps with his knee, while turning around to speak to Repo, and the autopilot mode was one which followed whatever pitch the pilot set with the yoke. 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. In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. Jorge Gonzalez 1/16/38 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. Helen Marie Chestnut 4/17/39 His book was later made into a TV movie. Documentary, Unscripted. Ron and Fara Infantino, married for 20 days, were coming home from their honeymoon when Flight 401 crashed. 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. March 21, 2017 Follow my voice!. Colonel. His required surgery. Barbara Ann Saal. Anniversary message - George Gaudiello December 29, 2021, 11:22 am. Pilot Bob Loft, copilot Bert Stockstill, and flight engineer Don Repo were bringing the plane in to land at Miami International Airport. "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. By that time, I had also earned a commercial pilot license with airplane single and multi-engine and instrument ratings. When word of this reached the only engineer on board of that particular flight, he denied ever fixing the oven and went as far to say that it didnt even need fixing in the first place. Cite this article: 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. Bud waved his light until the helicopter took notice. A Military Burial with Honors will be held at a later date, at South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, Florida. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 Raposa sensed a different tone in the engines. Raposa, Beverly | What songs will we sing? one passenger asked. "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. Rosemary Mancuso 10/31/49 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. Flight 401 - Autopilot indicator | Now that the crash site was again open to the public, he had gone out into the Everglades to scout the area on his air boat. Below: Franklin and Anita Kent celebrate Franklin's pending release from Palm Springs hospital with some ice cream, on February 17, 1973 (W.O. Effectively, we turned the clubhouse into the European equivalent of a weekend pub. A square green light on the control panel was supposed to signal that the wheel was in position. Im a tough Portuguese girl from Rhode Island.. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. Trudy Smith - Douglas November 6, 2021, 12:23 pm. Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. Photos of the 35th anniversary memorial gathering at the crash site, December 29, 2007. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. 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. In fact, do a Google image search for "flight 401 wreckage" and you'll see at a glance that the aircraft was completely destroyed. Repo, Donald Louis | They married in 1974. Before a bad back forced an early retirement, Bud laid carpet, grew avocados and worked as a game warden in the Everglades. He and his first wife traveled extensively in their RV throughout the United States and Canada. Those words guided Leonhard as his 14-foot patrol airboat bulldozed through dense walls of water-anchored grass. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. Above (L to R): Martin Siminerio in hospital, two file photos from the Miami Herald of survivor Xiomara Casada at Palmetto General with her infant, Christina, in a Miami hospital. 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? 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. . (It was later expanded to a much larger area either later that same day or the next day.). Flight Safety Foundation, 29 Dec. 1972. Eastern Air Lines flight 401 encountered no problems while cruising between the two cities. The original witness so was distressed that several of the cabin crew had to forcibly restrain her. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . And now, no one was flying the plane. The government considered him totally disabled. A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. Please dont leave me! Infantino yelled. 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. 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. For a minute I thought [Don] Repo's ghost was on the plane.". His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. Ron Infantino woke up in a chill, heart pounding, breath erratic. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49. 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. We're having legs tonight. The following is a list of survivors and victims of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. Serling, R. From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines. 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. 2022 TV-14. Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 I don't see any reason to worry about what fate has brought. Repo was dead. Web. Infantino, 47, is an independent insurance broker in San Antonio, a few minutes' drive from home in Dade City. He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. Those pilots probably didn't even know there was a NOTAM prohibiting flight immediately above the crash site. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the, Hospice of Southern Maine 390 US Route One, Scarborough, ME 04074. 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. Introducing the Keys Quirkiest Resident. (3) 2022 TV-14. From L to R, Captain Robert Albin Loft, pilot Albert John Stockstill, and flight engineer Donald Louis Repo. The flight attendant, Mercy Ruiz, was badly injured, with a broken pelvis and a severe laceration on her forehead. After graduation, he hitchhiked to Oregon and California to visit relatives, returning to Connecticut a couple of years later. 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. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 1 | References: Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | LOYLESS FUNERAL HOME, Land O'Lakes/Lutz Chapel. 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. 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. Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. It seemed to be miles off course. By. The first time Walter Simonton saw the Everglades, the desolation overwhelmed him as he grieved for his mother, whose plane was swallowed up by the wetlands. I tried to keep hold of myself by showing up at work, but I couldn't concentrate.". Surely, pilots and air crew would never make up such stories, would they? Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 Don Repo and Bob Loft. 2017. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. 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. After returning to Connecticut, he then worked for a number of years at Seymour Copper Mill in sales and marketing. 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. Donald Louis Repo 5/10/21 Source: Google Sites. Bud saw bodies strapped into seats upside down in the water. Richard Childs 5/21/52 Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. Albert J. Stockstill 6/9/33 "Hey, what's happening here?" You could hear the cry of death. 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. He wanted me to be the pilot (no objection from me) and he would occupy the co-pilot's seat. Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. degree history and physical education. Flight 401s chain of problems began on the approach to Florida two hours after departure. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. The next morning, as was my usual Saturday routine, I drove to the Sun Flying club timing it to arrive at approximately 11am. He retired from the Metro-Dade police department and moved to Brooksville, Florida many years ago. The hull slingshot forward as it dropped a couple of feet down into an open-water slough. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | He entered Collegiate Prep in New Haven, Conn. Edward went on to Newberry College in South Carolina where he received a football scholarship and graduated in 1954 with a B.S. Lost - Flight 401 Passengers (Name and Birthdate), Charles Camichel 9/9/1899 (we assume this is the "C. Carmichael" on the passenger manifest), Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40 (pictured below), Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 (photo below), Carmen Jorge 7/7/46 (Photo of Carmen below, with her daughter, and surviving passenger, Christina Ochoa), (Rosa's neice Lucille Cilles and her daughter, Rosemarie Mancuso and her husband Barry were also on board), Rosemary Mancuso 10/31/49 (Photos below), Ruth Elisa Romero Guerra 5/22/44 (Pictured below), Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49 (Photo of Stefan and Rochelle in 1972 below. Flight 401 - First Response | But fortunately, it is not the only source available to us. A crawlspace beneath a cockpit is one thing, a galley oven is quite another. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. Wreckage site of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. 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. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. 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. I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. THE CRASH OF FLIGHT 401 20 YEARS LATER SURVIVORS LIVE WITH PAIN, MEMORY, Author: ARNOLD MARKOWITZ Herald Staff Writer Copyright (c) 1992 The Miami Herald. Flight attendants of flight 401. I guess their clothes got blown off them.". Pin. 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. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. Lourdes Albert 2/20/50 This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. A lot of the people I saw were naked. 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. Back row from the left: Mercy Ruiz, Sue Tebbs, Adrienne Hamilton, Trudy Smith. Theyll find us eventually., Raposa had the survivors scoot together, sitting back to back so they could stay warm. She was shown photos of several of the flight staff and she picked out Don Repo. "The three of us toast to life on that day every year.". Evelyn De Salazar 11/6/08 Captain Bob Loft was also seen on a few occasions, but never as often as Repo. People observe a candlelight vigil in memory of victims of a plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The City of Miami Springs hosted a Beautiful Memorial Ceremony on Thursday, December 29, 2022. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. We exited the area and returned to Opa locka Airport, but our conversations were subdued. the pilot asked at the last second. Why dont we sing to help warm ourselves up? she suggested. Flight 401 - Flight Crew Fatal Photograph | A Coast Guard helicopter flew toward them, sweeping the marsh with a bright searchlight, and then turned away. His left knee was dislocated, wrenched sideways at a vicious right angle. Let us email you a link to each week's new episode. Top Left: The girls of Flight 401. We've been married going on 18 years now." Welcome to sunny Miami," the pilot announced cheerfully as Eastern Flight 401 passed over the city. Kobe Bryant, 41 ans, un des plus clbres joueurs de basket-ball de la NBA, avait pris sa retraite en 2016.. bord de l'hlicoptre se trouvaient galement sa fille de treize ans, Gianna, qui jouait . My God, what do we do now? Anne Ponte 1/7/16 Retired Air Force Col. Frank Bormana former astronaut, vice president of Eastern Airlines and now a first respondercame to escort her into a helicopter hovering at ground level a short distance away. 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. Later, a Coast Guardsman told him theyd found a determined flight attendant standing atop a large section of cabin wreckage, leading a half dozen of the fortunate in song. About Flight 401 | In his mind, he's still a strapping young fellow with big muscles. Leonhard, Raposa, and Infantino never connected during the rescue operation, except for one tenuous bond that drew them together in spirit: the sound of a distant Christmas carol drifting throughthe night. At 11:32, they aborted the landing, climbed to 2,000 feet and swung west over the Everglades to work out the problem. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 The company folded in 1991 and is perhaps still better known for some of the more compelling and credible paranormal encounters to date. Officially, 103 passengers and crew died. With no one flying the plane or noticing its steady descent at flight speed, it flew itself into the ground. "Accident Description." Lucille Cilles 1/30/24 Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. Jesus Lorenzo 4/26/37 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. Witnesses include pilots, various other members of Eastern Air Lines staff and their passengers. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 traveled from New York to Miami. All photos by Southern Airboat, who coordinated the event. 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. If you hear my voice, come toward me. Onboard the aircraft, all members of the Flight Crew worked solely on their problem. If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. 2017. Interment will follow at 2pm at Florida National Cemetery. "This is way in the past.". When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. Fuller, J. The strange tales of the ghostly airmen of Flight of 401 circulated in the airline community. All three of Loft, Stockstill, and Repo were among the unlucky majority who perished. Stick with the book. Thank you, Rob. Folks from South Florida's sporting community, mostly hunters, fishers and airboaters, heard, many for the first time, about Bud. ATC put the plane into a holding pattern over the Everglades. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. Exactly fifty years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 mysteriously . 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. 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. I saw young couples broken up. Clutching his walking stick, Bud shuffles past a mango tree into the backyard. I really do think I can gig some frogs if I had to.". 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. He was an aviation business student at Miami-Dade Community College then, and used some of his money to start a commuter airline. 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. The guy laughed and said "Scary. There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. Forgotten about him, actually. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. Mary Carfizzi 11/3/19 Their marriage spanned 47 years. His friend, of course, envisioned a Piper Cub or something small going down in a summer thunderstorm, not a state-of-the-art L-1011 carrying 200 passengers on a perfect winter night. 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. Another flight was being subjected to pre-flight checks when Bob Loft was spotted wandering around the undercarriage. Of course, hearing them from the porch isn't the same as being in the middle of them armed with a gig, taking a long breath of Everglades air, feeling utterly alive. 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. They were heading his way. At 11:42 p.m., the first officer said, We did something to the altitude.. One of the world's newest and flashiest airliners, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was making one of its first flights for Eastern Air Lines on December 29, 1972. A friend once warned him: "One day you'll work a plane crash out there." Please email corrections, additions, photos or any other information you would like to have posted here. Each year on December 29th, I spend a little time thinking about that silhouetted L1011 heading west over Opa locka Airport. An attendant of Tri-Star 318 was so shocked to see Repo looking back at her, that she called other members of the cabin crew to confirm the sighting. '", Age 79, died Saturday, October 2, 2004 in Land O'Lakes, FL. Dennis Gordon 12/9/32 HONORING FLIGHT 401 VICTIMS - Exactly fifty years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 mysteriously slammed into the Florida Everglades at over 200 miles per hour. He probed it with his flashlight beam. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other airplanes. Front row from the left: Dottie Warnock, Pat Ghyssels, Beverly Raposa, Patty Georgia, Stephanie Stanich. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53 That doesn't haunt me either . Janice Testa 9/12/52 The other house is gone; his still requires repairs. Song - The Ghost of Flight 401 - Lyrics | Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 Little did I expect to see what he actually had. It turned out to be anything other than a routine Saturday! The left wingtip hit first. It all started according to the book when a later L-1011 owned by Eastern Air Lines was on a flight to Mexico City. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. Bill and I left for our respective homes after securing the clubhouse. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. ", Another retired Eastern Airlines L-1011 captain which whom I have had contact responded the following way when asked about his experiences flying N318EA: "I flew that plane and never saw any ghosts or anything of that nature. Edward presented the ring in a glass of champagne. It didnt sound like they were in midair anymore. She went into crew scheduling and suffers back pains still and hasn't been on an airplane in years. Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Rose Marie Cillis - Mark Paternoster May 15, 2021, 11:07 pm. "They gave us six months off and then we were expected to be 'over it. "That wasn't my first brush with death," he said. It took a while, but the female passenger eventually calmed down. Trudy Jean Smith, age 73, of Dallas, Georgia, formerly of Deport, Texas, died November 29, 2020. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. 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