He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to a hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. 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. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 Of five survivors The Herald located this week, three talked freely about Flight 401. 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. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. She found a section of the cabin with a stewardess still strapped into her seat-belt harness. From a half mile above, it's like an artist's canvas. 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. I diplomatically told James that I couldn't take possession of the large pieces of wreckage. 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. Angelo Donadeo, whose survival may be the most remarkable of all, says the only thing still bothering him is his back, but not very much. Pick up your airboat and meet me at the Twenty Mile Boat Ramp. Raposa, Beverly | LOYLESS FUNERAL HOME, Land O'Lakes/Lutz Chapel. The breakup of the fuselage had freed it from its stowage and activated its inflation mechanism. Hey! At night, when he sits on his porch, he can hear the wup-wup bellows of the pig frogs and the heh-heh-heh chatter of the leopard frogs beyond the trees. You don't want to be in the water with me.". Were not going to leave you.. Leonhard put the car in park, cut the motor and stepped out. "This is way in the past.". That simple piece of plastic represents a tie between me and what happened to the passengers and crew on Flight 401 on December 29, 1972. On Dec. 29, 1972, it carried 178, including crew. [5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. Below: The Casado family tour the crash site. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. December 29, 2022 / 10:12 AM / CBS Miami. Some would rather not remember. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. I probably did too, I'm sure." Allen M. Stark 8/11/49 For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars. 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. No more clothes on his body .". Get the latest flight sales and travel reviews straight to your inbox. He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa. Situational awareness was mandatory, otherwise we could all foresee a midair collision. He has never taken pleasure in talking about what he saw after Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 went down and how he felt about it. Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 left New York's JFK airport, bound for Miami International Airport, on December 29, 1972. Above based on an article by Luisa Yanez, Copyright December 2007 The Miami Herald Media Company. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. Nery Palma 7/12/34 The only thing she was looking forward to on arrival in Miami was going to bed. It's truly amazing how the mind works for, at the time, I had no idea of the significance of what I saw that night nor did I intend to store it away in my memory banks. And now, no one was flying the plane. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). Flight 401 crash-landed into the Everglades at over 200 mph. They turned on the autopilot. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. [5]:4 The engineer (Repo) had gone below, and no indication was heard of the pilots' voices recorded on the CVR that they heard the chime. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 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. All 110 people on board died. Marquis is also survived by a son, Donald Marquis of Altamonte Springs; a daughter, Terri Mabie of Tucson; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. 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. When the Coast Guard helicopter attempted a landing, the prop wash threw hunks of debris dangerously around. Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. The middle engine and tail section had broken away from the main fuselage, coming to a rest on their sides in a remote area far from the main crash site, which was located 18.7 miles northwest of Miami International Airport. The next morning, as was my usual Saturday routine, I drove to the Sun Flying club timing it to arrive at approximately 11am. 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. I don't know if she ever did return to flying; my mother never told me one way or the other. Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49 After the aircraft had descended 250 feet (76m) from the selected altitude of 2,000 feet (610m), a C-chord sounded from the rear speaker. There were 75 survivors. Only their bedroom has an air conditioner. Rose Lina Zollo 7/13/43. Then zip, the light was out.". This photo taken in September 2009. The mood was festive as people were leaving the coldness of New York to bring in 1973 on the beaches of Florida. Burning jet fuel engulfed the aircraft as it plowed through the swamp. Colonel. 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. February 26, 1989. "Life's played funny tricks on me," said Richard N. Micale, 41, not laughing. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. [23], According to Robert J. Serling's 1980 book From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines, the claim that wreckage from Flight 401 was installed and later removed from other Eastern aircraft was false, and no Eastern employees had ever claimed to have seen or believed in the alleged ghost sightings. They never met again, never talked again, and never will: Ray died years ago in Arcadia. Rosa Losano 11/1/01 Then he tells the story the best he can. ValuJet 592 went down in May 1996, killing all 110 on board. On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the second worst single-plane disaster in America up to that time. Airline employees began spreading stories of apparitions to the point where Eastern management warned employees that they could face dismissal if caught, and any log book entries about such matters would be removed. His doctor warned him not to travel alone, not with his weak heart and lungs and aching back. On a moonless night, in the beam of his head lamp, the frog eyes would glow like rubies. Flight 401 was a short-haul flight to Miami. I was too young for that kind of stuff. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. Bob called Infantino, who loves to tell the story: "He was a regional coordinator with AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Co., and that's when I started -- 16 years ago, and I've been with them ever since. Susan Deutsch 10/21/42 Fourteen survivors had various degrees of burns. He did well for a while -- had a big house in the Country Club of Miami and drove a Lincoln. Elisa Ruth Romero 5/28/44 After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. Darrylle Becker 3/16/43 His name showed up recently on a Web site (eastern401.googlepages.com) about the 35th anniversary of a tragedy that killed more than 100 passengers and traumatized dozens more. The left wingtip hit first. Raposa did not have any blankets. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. The crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 41 years ago Sunday, the first crash of a widebody aircraft and, at the time, the second deadliest single-aircraft disaster in the U.S., led to wide-ranging changes in on board safety that continue to positively affect air travel today. Johnson, Charles | [5]:5. Entry . "It has always bothered me that there was nothing done with 401," said Dummett, a retired Miami-Dade firefighter and founder of the American Airboat Search and Rescue Association, now living in Lake Wales. 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. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 [15][16][17], These stories speculated that parts of the crashed aircraft were salvaged after the investigation and refitted into other L-1011s. Charles Kuchenbrod 7/16/30 He had logged 280 hours in the L-1011. He rescued some terrified folks - he doesn't know how many - before the regular cavalry of official rescuers arrived in helicopters, directed to the carnage by his head lamp. Hansel Meighen died on April 15, 1999, and is buried in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Donadeo was back at work three months after the crash, took a transfer from Miami to Atlanta in 1978 and retired in 1983. 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. itinerary data, aircraft/flight or vessel/ voyage data, and personal identification information, including name, gender, date of birth, citizenship, travel document data, and status onboard the vessel or aircraft. A dramatization of the jetliner crash into the Florida Everglades in December 1972, and the rescue of seventy-three passengers (103 died), made up primarily of recognizable TV personalities plus famed bandleader Artie Shaw in his TV-movie debut. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. He can't remember anyone's name now. Infantino, 47, is an independent insurance broker in San Antonio, a few minutes' drive from home in Dade City. Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 It looked as though the L1011 was in a shallow left turn and dragged the left wing tip in the swamp. Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 The aircraft was completely demolished, with wreckage, bodies, and survivors strewn over a wide area. The cruel facts of this disaster only reinforced my observation that you won't die unless it's your time to die. 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]. Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. 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. A team catalogues the mangled remains of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 aircraft at the crash site in the Everglades. "He swore that Frank Borman had paid him to come to Miami and perform an exorcism on #318. Leonhard doesnt remember which one. The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. Eugene Schenker 6/24/30 December 21, 2022, 5:00 AM. Survivors - Crew and Eastern Employees Jerrold Solomon, who had walked away from the crash unscathed, flew home to New York three days later. Bud revved up the engine and headed northwest. Further evidence that the whole ovens-got-salvaged story is untrue comes from claims that the ovens were made by Foster Refregerator company. The Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Florida Everglades. 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. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades,[1][2][3] causing 101 total fatalities. Sharon Norene Gatti 3/2/48 The death toll at the time was the highest of any one-plane accident in U.S. civil aviation history. Discretion was the better part of valor. NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time. Photography courtesy Ron Infantino, A few minutes later Leonhards radio crackled. It's broken, just like him. Last picture of Paul Walker alive, before getting into the porsche that crashed. "[5]:2324, In response to this and other accidents during the 1970s, many airlines started crew resource management training for their pilots. "It's 100 degrees in the house, honey," Nancy says, joining him on the porch. If one more time he could harvest a mess of frog legs in the Everglades. Shock had taken over. Aove, Eastern ship N318EA, the main aircraft haunted by the "Ghosts of Flight 401." He immediately drove to Eastern's Miami offices and decided to charter a helicopter to the crash site, as the swampy terrain made rescue difficult, and Eastern Airlines had not heard any news of progress in rescue efforts. In the hospital, a nine-inch steel rod was inserted into the bone. [5]:30[6]:99 The aircraft was fleet number 310, and the 10th TriStar delivered to the carrier. Those pilots probably didn't even know there was a NOTAM prohibiting flight immediately above the crash site. She worked only briefly as a flight attendant after the crash. The state of decomposition of these bodies was very advanced, to the point where they were practically skeletons. He saw a man standing, shocked, in knee-deep water. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. 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. Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 The night was a balmy 72 degrees, the mosquitoes surprisingly sparse. Join FlightAware View more flight history Purchase entire flight history for AAL401. The experienced flight crew was distracted when the landing gear light failed to come on, which they believed was caused by a blown bulb. Little did I expect to see what he actually had. An aerial view of the crash site; a swath of the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. "I was engaged and my fiance was killed in a drunk-driving accident two months before the wedding," she said. The final NTSB report cited the cause of the crash as pilot error, specifically: "the failure of the flight crew to monitor the flight instruments during the final four minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground. [5]:4 This altitude alert, designed to warn the pilots of an inadvertent deviation from the selected altitude, went unnoticed by the crew. "You have to keep your eye on the frogs real good when that airboat is moving - I mean not take your eyes away - and be quick with the gig," he says, in what amounts to the Gettysburg Address for him. 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. 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. He saw openings in the sawgrass created by sliding chunks of broken airplane. When Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed out of the sky over the Florida Everglades in December 1972 it was without a doubt one of the worst commercial air disasters in American history, with over 100 people losing their lives. . Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. Dennis Gordon 12/9/32 The captain and his first and second officers had every reason to feel good and confident about flying this particular ship. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. 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. Warren Terry 2/16/34 But it kept jamming. And before I had time to even let off the throttle or do anything else, I ran over those two people, who I knew were both dead. My log book shows that our flight lasted 1.2 hours. 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. Leonhard hit the gas as he toggled on the blue light and siren. 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. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 Eventually, the investigations were concluded and most, but not all, of the wreckage was removed or salvaged from the Everglades. The article covered the story of an Eastern L-1011 ferry flight where the jet lost one of the two operating engines and the pilot had a challenging landing. The death toll per the final accident report was 99. Marquis received burns to his face, arms, and legsa result of spilled jet fuel from the crashed TriStarbut continued shuttling people in and out of the crash site that night and the next day. What made it so hard was trying to manhandle him up and over the broken willows. 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. At the time, the decision to change seats carried no meaning. The Lockheed L-1011 carried 163 passengers and 13 crew members. He wants to show them how to gig frogs. We went deeper and deeper, until wed gone about 50 yards. 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." Caridad Fermina Hernandez 10/11/32 Seventy-five miraculously survived. But the passengers were her peopleher responsibilityand it was still her job to help them. Flashlights are now standard equipment near jumpseats, and all jumpseats are outfitted with shoulder harnesses. No flicker from an air boaters headlamp. 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. I especially remember Bill describing passengers who apparently survived the crash impact, but were knocked unconscious and were still strapped into their seats. In the end, it appears that the source of the stories was an article in an issue of the Flight Safety Foundation. "I've tried to throw [the suitcase] away many times, but something always holds me back. Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman termed the ghost stories about the crash "garbage". I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. Alina Junco 5/2/44 If he saw legs kicking, he turned the seat over. At home, waiting sometimes fearfully, was Nancy, a pretty barefoot country girl in a cotton dress. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Whether youre looking for a new reading nook or a rare find, here are all the local shops were booking it to. Makeshift tailgate strip clubs, dog poop versus machete matches and a whole lot alligators in unwanted now = new Date Of frog legs in the sawgrass created by sliding chunks of broken airplane reinforced! 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