The Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar was the latest generation of wide-body commercial aircraft and had been put into service only four months before. The Nordskog were installed mostly on the L1011-500 series. Silvan Karpen 5/23/28 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. Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others. 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. [5]:4 For the next 80 seconds, the airplane maintained level flight. Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45 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. She worked only briefly as a flight attendant after the crash. I don't see any reason to worry about what fate has brought. Bud asks his wife to look for his scrapbooks. LOYLESS FUNERAL HOME, Land O'Lakes/Lutz Chapel. On December 29, 1972 pilot Robert "Bob" Loft and flight engineer Don Repo were piloting Eastern Airlines Flight 401 from JFK Airport (NY) to Miami, Florida. Investigators believe the autopilot switched modes when the captain accidentally leaned against the yoke while turning to speak to the flight engineer, who was sitting behind and to the right of him. Flight 401 soared above a primordial swampland filled with poisonous snakes and alligators crawling through razor-sharp sawgrass and open-water sloughs. It was a routine trip for Flight 401 until 11:32 p.m. when the plane began its approach to Miami International Airport, and an indicator light for the nose landing gear had not lit up. His book was later adapted into a made-for-tv movie starring William Shatner as an NTSB investigator. Below Left - In red, stewardess Beverly Raposa at the memorial. 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. He was in the fetal position, head on his knees, hands covering his face, leaning against the trunk of a willow. Not shown, Sharon Transue (she was taking the photo). Rons eyes blinked open upon hearing the engines roar to full power. 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. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 I saw a husband who couldn't find his wife or his children." The crash is considered unique in aviation history because of where it occurred: in Florida's Everglades a sprawling . Lets sing Christmas carols, Raposa replied. Sir, dont worry, he said. 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. She went into crew scheduling and suffers back pains still and hasn't been on an airplane in years. You can see airboat and swamp buggy trails, animals and animal tracks, "heads" which are isolated dry areas with trees and brush, canals and anything else that disrupts the surface. I do recall that some gremlins were on it though and they kept messing up my landing!!!!". He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. The other 101 people on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 died quite horribly -- 98 in the Everglades where the airplane crashed, three later in hospitals. "He was naked. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). Then he tells the story the best he can. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 Based on Fuller's book, it emphasized the ghost sightings. Then zip, the light was out.". In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. 3h 15m. PHOTO CREDIT: Patrick Farrell - Miami Herald Staff. Leonhard discovered a hole in the bushes, roughly circular in shape and a little larger than the mouth of a culvert pipe. At home, waiting sometimes fearfully, was Nancy, a pretty barefoot country girl in a cotton dress. The flying safety was even more compromised because it was slightly hazy which reduced visibility to seven to ten miles over the Everglades. Yetta Cohn 3/17/16 This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. 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 [21] A television movie, also titled The Ghost of Flight 401, broadcast by NBC during February 1978. A jumbo jet crashed in the Everglades north of the Tamiami Trial, his sergeant said. One hundred and three lives were lost. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. Combined with numerous anonymous witnesses and countless tales, the rumors spread throughout the aviation community. A light in the Sky Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 Most of what we talked about on the return to the airport was speculation on our part as to how the plane crashed, not why it crashed. I mean, I was a single person with no family. Patricia George was on top of the coat closet. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. He can't remember anyone's name now. The Miami News, Dec. 30, 1972. The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. An account of the paranormal happenings even appeared in a 1974 issue of the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter. He hoped the circling delay would give them time to fix the problem. Also notable were the Eastern Airlines two-tone blue and white colors on the larger pieces of wreckage. Above: A piece of wreckage from Flight 401 still visible in the Everglades. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 Raposa, Beverly | In the swamp, there were bodies everywhere, men, women, children, even infants, some unspeakably maimed. The 52-year-old flight engineer was one of 101 people who'd died Dec. 29, 1972 when Eastern Flight 401, packed with holiday travelers, slammed into the Everglades 19 miles northwest of Miami. Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute - Investigation Investigation Later that morning the world woke to news of the tragedy. On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Flight 401 from New York to Miami took off from JFK Airport at 9:20 pm. The left wingtip hit first. Passenger List: TWA Flight 800. Then an alarm chimed, signaling a 250-foot drop. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 A friend once warned him: "One day you'll work a plane crash out there." Im sure they all ran away. She spit the words out quickly, doing her best to sound convincing. It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. 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. Less than three hours later the aircraft reached Florida. "I could get it running," he says, fighting for breath. In its first three hours aloft, Flight 401 had been uneventful. February 26, 1989. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. That was the first time I had heard of the crash. Raposa was struggling for ideas to keep her group occupied. "Nobody paid him to go out there and try to rescue people," says Ken Pine, who recently fixed Bud's roof. The Infantinos were exhausted from celebrating Christmas with Rons parents in New York. It's broken, just like him. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. The area I was about to go in was uncharted territory for me, Leonhard said. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 AIRBOYD 487K subscribers 284K views 13 years ago #AIRBOYD #AvGeek Video Courtesy: FAA via Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents. Fortunately, Bud was an expert. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. Below Right - Gatherers take a moment to honor Robert 'Bud' Marquis. Bud waved his light until the helicopter took notice. It was the first of the new generation of wide-body "jumbo jets" to crash. At least they thought they had. Adelaide Geneve Bearman 9/21/22 When I was learning to fly in the mid-1960s at Sun Line Helicopters, one of the fixed base operators (FBO) tied into the Miami-Dade Junior College aviation program at the Opa locka Airport, I worked as a line boy refueling aircraft and doing minor line maintenance. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. It's a swamp, a flat swamp. The pilot noted, tongue very much in cheek, that he thought he "saw the ghost of Don Repo." The NTSB classified the injuries of one nonrevenue passenger and one other passenger as nonfatal, as their deaths occurred more than seven days after the accident. 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. As Stockstill started another turn, onto 180, he noticed the discrepancy. [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. He survived, barely, with his right arm nearly severed, his left knee broken and his chest crushed. [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. It didn't light. The Ghost of Flight 401 was based on the tragic Eastern Air Lines airplane crash in December 1972, and the alleged supernatural events which followed; it was eventually turned into a popular 1978 made-for-television movie. 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. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. Of the cockpit crew, only flight engineer Repo survived the initial crash, along with technical officer Donadeo, who was down in the nose electronics bay with Repo at the moment of impact. Thank you, Rob. Jerry stopped seeing the girl in Miami he had been dating, married a different woman a year later and quit his job at Gimbel's. He saw mangled bodies and heard the pitiful moans of the dying. During its descent, the Boeing jet airliner was in a "nose up deck approach" which meant that it was almost next to impossible for its flight crew to see the small Cessna flying directly below it.39 The overhead position of the climbing Cessna 172 Skyhawk's cantilevered wing would have restricted Boswell and Kazy's rear view.40 N310EA, the aircraft involved in the accident. The captain had ordered that the landing gear be lowered in. 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. Photo credit: Don Boyd of Sun Bird Photos. Bud revved up the engine and headed northwest. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 passengers crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. ValuJet 592 went down in May 1996, killing all 110 on board. Abover right - Over 100 airboats participated in the evenet. Isell Delgado 1/23/25 The four-month-old L-1011 TriStar jet crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972 at 11:42 p.m., caused . Ron Infantino woke up in a chill, heart pounding, breath erratic. Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. Jose Garcia 6/4/47 Some still feel the pain. Flipping through the pages, Bud smiles for the first time in hours. Loretta E. Bloodgood 10/13/15 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. 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. 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? Colonel. We exited the area and returned to Opa locka Airport, but our conversations were subdued. [5]:6,16[9] However, the NTSB concluded that the captain's tumor did not contribute to the accident. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other. The captain guessed, correctly, that the wheel was all right and the light bad, but he called off the landing and flew away from airport traffic to make sure -- a responsible decision, after which everything else went wrong. 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. Other than those observations, I don't recall much more from that flight. Barry L. Mancuso 10/19/44 I saw young couples broken up. 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. A lot of the people I saw were naked. In a weak voice, one of them asked, What about the alligators?, Raposa didnt hesitate: We made such a loud noise when we hit. 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 (99 initial crash fatalities, two died shortly afterward). 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. These and other requirements are imposed for the purpose of meeting the collective objectives of the Aviation and "I could empathize with what Ron was going through. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. After dark he moonlighted as a commercial frogger. 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 820ft (250m) along the wreckage trail, the outer section of the starboard wing tore off, gouging a 59-foot-long (18m) crater in the soft ground as it did so. This quote, which was obviously a joke, was presented in the Ghost of Flight 401 as fact. The plane was crossing over the Everglades on Dec. 29, 1972 . Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. The FAA guy sitting closest to Leonhard yelled, Holy shit!, An airboat doesnt have brakes, Leonhard explained. Tower, this is Eastern 401, it looks like were going to have to circle. The flight had 163 passengers and 13 crew members. 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 the photograph below, here is the listing of who is who. Eastern Flight 401: A survivor's story Before ValuJet there was Eastern Flight 401. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami.Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities. Entry . Hey, whats happening here? the captain shouted. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. Stewardess Beverly Raposa, then 25, noticed nothing unusual as the flight passed high over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Miami International Airport. 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. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. Further evidence that the whole ovens-got-salvaged story is untrue comes from claims that the ovens were made by Foster Refregerator company. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 Check-in; . I was amazed at the size of some of the pieces of wreckage he brought home on the air boat. Almost one year after receiving his honor, Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, died November 21, 2008, of complications from an accident five weeks ago. Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . Bud wants to. They headed for the flash. Refresh the page,. By the time I got to the clubhouse, there must have been 10 to 15 members milling about, all discussing the crash. Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40 Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | Donald Stanley Casadona 7/16/38 2023-Feb-14. All 110 people on board died. [26], Flight 401 is mentioned in the TV show Supernatural Season 1 Episode 4 named Phantom Traveler's. The control tower at Opa locka shut down at 11pm each evening back then so the L1011 had to be in contact with Miami Approach Control, since we assumed it was ultimately being vectored for an approach to MIA. He sold 13 in a month. 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. Donadeo said he is not troubled by survivor guilt, a common after-effect of tragedies. 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. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. The rescuers are picking people up from the nose section of the plane first. Survivors - Crew and Eastern Employees 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. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. He was 79. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 3 | He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. Three women on the jetliner's tail, about 20 feet above the water, begged Bud to save them. "When I tried to prop him up it felt like every bone in his body was broken.". A Web forum, Southern Airboat, which attracts thousands of worldwide participants, plans to take care of the repairs. Marc Leshay 11/28/51 "I've tried to throw [the suitcase] away many times, but something always holds me back. He had promised to show a slight acquaintance, Ray Dickinson, how to gig frogs. 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