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Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | Speculation at the club was rampant which is to be expected from a bunch of pilots. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades at 11:42 pm December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities. Darrylle Becker 3/16/43 Jorge Gonzalez 1/16/38 In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. He'd launch his airboat at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation on the Tamiami Trail and race north into the river of grass. It's broken, just like him. This photo taken in September 2009. If cities had soundtracks, none would sound quite like Nashville. She put in 11 more years with United before retiring. What happened next must have happened very quickly. I don't pretend to understand why it happens. 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. This killed the First Officer instantly. He was a retired aircraft Engineer with Eastern Airlines in Miami, a survivor of the December 1972 crash of the L-1011 in the Everglades, and a Navy veteran of WWII. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. Mom apparently worked closely with that flight attendant. After lowering the gear, First Officer Stockstill noticed that the landing gear indicator, a green light identifying that the nose gear is properly locked in the "down" position, had not illuminated. After we visually established where the crash site was located, we could see the initial ground contact point and the distribution of the wreckage quite clearly. "I think I can still do it. Bound for Miami, Flight 401 took off from New York's JFK at 9:20 p.m. His hunting escapades on his air boat meant that he was very familiar with the area where Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades. "He's an airboater.". ValuJet Flight 592 was a domestic passenger flight between Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, and William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia that crashed into the Everglades on May 11, 1996 as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by improperly stored cargo, killing all 110 people on board. Bud waved his light until the helicopter took notice. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. After a few minutes they saw the lights of rescue helicopters, circling, searching, much too far east and south. "Nobody paid him to go out there and try to rescue people," says Ken Pine, who recently fixed Bud's roof. We went deeper and deeper, until wed gone about 50 yards. 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. Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. 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. He was more than 25 miles away. During a rare moment of calm after the rescue helicopter had departed for Miami, he heard the faint tune of a Christmas carol. 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. I saw people burned in agony. Suddenly, he stopped. 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 "I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it." 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. Colonel. Robert Loft, 55; First Officer Albert Stockstill, 39, and Second Officer Donald Repo, 51, all of Miami-Dade. '," she says now. That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. the pilot asked at the last second. 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. [5]:22[6]:109, 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. We dont have a light on our nose gear yet.. 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. Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 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. Why dont we sing to help warm ourselves up? she suggested. 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. In my mind, that makes him a real hero.". Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. I mean, I was a single person with no family. One day, late in 1973, I got a phone call from James telling me to come over to his house; he had something for me. We could also see a few other aircraft flying into the restricted airspace. From a half mile above, it's like an artist's canvas. 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. ", This pilot added, however, that he "flew 318 several times in the late 80s and never saw any unnatural apparitions - some weird looking people, but no ghosts. Beverly Raposa switched seats from her regular position in the galley for a flight from New York to Miami. Mildred Katz 1/8/34 [21] A television movie, also titled The Ghost of Flight 401, broadcast by NBC during February 1978. No more clothes on his body .". Were not going to leave you.. He is completely burned. 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. [5]:3, Loft, who was working the radio during this leg of the flight, told the tower that they would discontinue their approach to their airport and requested to enter a holding pattern. That was the first time I had heard of the crash. They had drowned because their seats landed with their heads tilted down into the swamp water. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. All of us realized that many people had lost their lives and that there was a bit of mystery surrounding why a relatively new L1011 crashed into the Everglades on a clear, dark night. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. She was killed. Henry Nunez 8/18/23 Ever the good Catholic, she crossed herself in the dark and silently prayed, Oh God, please let that be true.. Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 He probed it with his flashlight beam. After dark he moonlighted as a commercial frogger. With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. Ruiz, 63, of West Miami-Dade, still has aches and pains but returned to flying until Eastern folded in 1991. He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. With an injured back and a cut foot, she slogged through sucking muck, shredded saw grass and plane wreckage. 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." I have lost contact with Bill Elliott. 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. Eastern Airlines Flight #401 (L1011 N310EA) crashed in the Everglades on December 29, 1972. Moe Lustig 7/16/23 The flying safety was even more compromised because it was slightly hazy which reduced visibility to seven to ten miles over the Everglades. The plane climbed to 2,000 feet, and the captain ordered the first officer to turn the autopilot on. [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. Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 As I sit writing this 34 years later in December 2006, I can still visualize the events of that night just as if they had occurred yesterday. Jose Garcia 6/4/47 Richard Childs 5/21/52 The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. A trio of newly minted Rolls-Royce turbofan jet engines made a rumble that could barely be heard by the 163 passengers and 13 crew members seated inside the spacious cabin and reconfigured cockpit. He'd get that look. I don't question what the Lord does.". He shut down the engine again to listen. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. [5]:3, The cockpit crew removed the light assembly,[6]:102 and Second Officer Repo was dispatched to the avionics bay beneath the flight deck to check via a small porthole whether the landing gear was indeed down. The plane, a new "Whisperliner," could transport 229 passengers. This was the first fatal crash of a wide-body aircraft. I was coping with someone who was disabled. (ABN 16 009 661 901) of 401 King Street, London, W6 9NJ, United Kingdom. Bud's heroics were featured prominently a few days later in the Miami Herald. Well launch from there.. December 29, 2022 / 10:12 AM / CBS Miami. A pale glow lightened the sky above Miami more than 40 miles away. According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. Beverly Raposa stumbled out of the nightmarish apocalypse, hurt, disheveled and covered in clumps of dripping swamp grasses. Jerome Becker 6/27/39 That doesn't haunt me either . Two minutes later, Flight 401 called the air traffic control tower. The three major sections of the fuselagethe most intact of which was the tail assemblylay in the mud towards the end of the wreckage trail. Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. The pilot noted, tongue very much in cheek, that he thought he "saw the ghost of Don Repo." Lockheed L-1011 Landing Gear Lever | HONOLULU, FEB. 25 -- As investigators questioned the pilots and ground crew today, Coast Guard and Navy rescue workers recovered from the Pacific two seats and a 4-by-6-foot . He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. She wore panty hose and looked like shed been scalped with a razor. They rushed to rescue survivors. Born in Arkansas, he grew up in South Florida when everybody seemed to be poor. I didn't tell him that it felt really strange realizing that so much of the plane was still out in the glades. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. Aground. At 11:32 p.m., Capt. The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV Movie 1978) - IMDb | The single-engine Cessna 152 was . Refresh the page,. "He's one of us," says John Canti, a firefighter, paramedic and outdoorsman. 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