Patricia A. Ghyssels 3/31/45 Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40 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. Above Left - Ron Infantino stands among survivors. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. The breakdown and subsequent emergency landing did in fact happen, and was covered in a tongue-in-cheek brief in the journal of the Flight Safety Foundation. He'd see the lights and hear the roar as the jets climbed into the black night over the swamp or descended toward Miami International Airport. When he stopped the engine to push the boat back into the water, he heard a chorus of terrified human voices, hollering, moaning, shrieking. It was quite possible that the landing gear was in the correct configuration. We've been married going on 18 years now." Edward was also sent to Florida to build Trap and Skeet gun clubs in some southern states, he always maintained that the clubs were 20 years ahead of their time. 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. Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 Don Repo and Bob Loft. The last thing Raposa remembered seeing before she was knocked out was a waterfall of colors. At the time, it was one of the worst civil aviation disasters the country had ever seen. I tried to keep hold of myself by showing up at work, but I couldn't concentrate.". Someone had seen his frogging light. But we idled back around to double-check on them just in case.. His left knee was dislocated, wrenched sideways at a vicious right angle. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. 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. 1 of 37. Trudy Smith - Douglas November 6, 2021, 12:23 pm. She dug down into the black muck, cupped a double handful to her face and smeared it all over the affected areas. She was born on August 24, 1947, to Jefferson Truett Smith and S. Margeria Jeffus in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I told Hansel that we needed to check, before we got into the air, whether there were any flight restrictions over the crash site which seemed pretty logical to me. After returning to Connecticut, he then worked for a number of years at Seymour Copper Mill in sales and marketing. Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts. 2023 Skeptoid Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars. Marc Leshay 11/28/51 Fuller could have said whatever he wanted about the condition of the wreckage, and nobody would have any reason to doubt him. Edward E. Ulrich died at home on May 25, 2021. Dummett hopes that the event will inspire a permanent memorial to Eastern Flight 401, similar to the ValuJet Memorial off the Tamiami Trail in the Everglades. He and his first wife traveled extensively in their RV throughout the United States and Canada. A fireball rushed through the fuselage, and the plane began pinwheeling like a giant Ferris wheel spun loose from its mount. Ground crew with Eastern Airlines Flight 401 before its fateful flight; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. There were also other artifacts such as yellow airline life preservers and panes of plastic passenger windows. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 2 | Flight crews and passengers on other similar aircraft in the Eastern Air Lines fleet came forward with stories of sightings of Bob Loft and Don Repo. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | 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. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32 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. The single-engine Cessna 152 was . The area I was about to go in was uncharted territory for me, Leonhard said. In short, it was a great place to eat (we used to have outstanding club Bar-B-Q, talk airplanes, perform minor maintenance and fly planes. Diane Carol Greenblatt 5/5/52 Above: Flight attendants Beverly Raposa and Mercy Ruiz sit on a patch of ground in the Everglades where their flight crashed 35 years earlier. 40 were killed on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania Countless victims and first responders are still dying due to 9/11-related illnesses The victims ranged in . Not long after, "ghosts" of Loft and Repo were seen on more than twenty occasions by crew members on other Eastern Tri-Stars, especially those planes which had been fitted with parts salvaged from the Flight 401 wreckage. The flying safety was even more compromised because it was slightly hazy which reduced visibility to seven to ten miles over the Everglades. Lockheed L-1011, aircraft 310, flight 401 headed from New York to Miami on Dec. 29, 1972. The jet actually began losing altitude, so gradually that no one noticed until the very end. Although he was a passenger, he rode in the cockpit with pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer. A lot of the people I saw were naked. The sightings apparently stopped once this was all done. In the cockpit, the first of six radio altimeter warnings began, signaling an impending crash. Unable to move and weak from severe loss of blood, his body hung suspended in the watery muck, still bent in the sitting position. It is 12 feet long and 7 feet across. Mysterious Universe But fortunately, it is not the only source available to us. It's broken, just like him. Eastern's L-1011's came equipped with six Bowmar ovens (Lockheed Part Number 671878-115). Fear of Landing. After about an hour, he saw the first helicopter. "I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it." The government considered him totally disabled. The petite brunette stood just 5 feet 1.5 inches tall. With almost twice the area of Rhode Island, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States has some of the most formidable terrain on Earth. 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. Starring. at Highland Cemetery in Deport, Texas. "When I tried to prop him up it felt like every bone in his body was broken.". Carmen Jorge 7/7/46 It was during one of those sessions on December 29, 1972, that Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crossed paths with me and some of the other club members. 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. . Thank you, Rob. Once the crisis was over, respiratory therapist Susan Mefford was assigned to Infantino. 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. Give or take a word, the announcement is remembered verbatim by virtually every survivor. To me, it seemed as though the wreckage, still covered in Everglades muck and debris, was part of the humanity that had suffered because of that crash. Bill Elliott had a much more eventful night. No gunshots. Trudy is survived by her nephews, Jason Mooney and wife Annette, Jeremy Ogelsby and wife Amy; great-nephews, Nathan Mooney and wife Courtney, Caleb Mooney and wife Savannah, and Brandon Ogelsby; great-nieces, Laura Mooney and Alaura Ogelsby;2 great-great-nephews and 2 great-great-nieces; cousins, Jacque Wirta and Jack Moncrief. . Afterward, folks hope to take the old man into the Everglades, in his own airboat, if he wants. Theyd been married only 20 days and were returning from their honeymoon. Rights and reuse information. The Ghost of Flight 401 was not much of a departure for him. Carpet layers need strong backs. I vaguely remember that we ended up taking a total of five people on that flight. Continue Reading: Survivor Stories and Memorial Efforts. Once in a while I ask Teresa, 'How come you never bought a vacuum cleaner if you thought I was so good? 2017. I guess their clothes got blown off them.". Ann Connell, Barry Connell, Angelo Donadeo, Patricia R Georgia, Adrianne Ann Hamilton, Jennifer Larsen, Thomas Mulcahy, Mercedes V Ruiz, Beverly Jean Raposa, Trudy J Smith, Sue F. Tibbs, Sharon R Transue, Dorothy M Warnock. Genres. In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. Late in the evening of Friday, December 29, 1972, I was at the old Sun Flying Club tie-down area located on the east side of Opa locka Airport in metropolitan Miami, Florida. Old and sick now, he lives in near poverty on the edge of the Everglades. He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral. It became his navigation beacon. Web. The signal inside the cockpit had not illuminated as it should have. James followed all of the rules and more often than not, brought home venison for the family each deer season. Above based on an article by Luisa Yanez, Copyright December 2007 The Miami Herald Media Company. References: He hoped the circling delay would give them time to fix the problem. It was only then that it had hit him. They didn't keep score, but Marquis knows they saved a lot of people's lives that night. Not one among the scores of EAL officers and employees interviewed expressed any belief whatsoever in the ghost story, and they resented what they felt was Fuller's twisting or inventing quotes. December 29, 2022, 8:23 PM. Bob Loft appeared before the Vice President of Eastern Air Lines in First Class. Maria Elena Gonzalez 9/3/51 Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 With his left, he held onto the boat and walked beside it to the levee. Worse, none of them noticed that the jet had been steadily losing altitude. She put in 11 more years with United before retiring. 17 Mar. From his vantage point atop the levee, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Officer Gray Leonhard, then 24 years old, had a commanding view across the vast darkened marsh. The plane, a new "Whisperliner," could transport 229 passengers. Another flight was being subjected to pre-flight checks when Bob Loft was spotted wandering around the undercarriage. 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! Eduardo Jaramillo 8/2/32 Not long after the accident, weird stories began to circulate amongst the airline community of ghostly encounters with the dead . With their very careers on the line, each witness must be totally certain what they saw is what they saw. Thats what youre going to get when we get out of here. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 1 | 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. Pilots and flight attendants frequently saw Don Repo after that, and always he gave them some valuable maintenance note about the aircraft. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was on its final approach into Miami shortly before midnight 50 years ago this month when a single light bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel failed to illuminate. This witness, a female passenger, described an ashen looking person sitting in one of the seats. Bud Marquis had experienced better nights of frogging. Lucille Cilles 1/30/24 He retired from the Metro-Dade police department and moved to Brooksville, Florida many years ago. "The three of us toast to life on that day every year.". 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. Bud's heroics were featured prominently a few days later in the Miami Herald. Judy Ellenberg 2/27/53 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flight 401. I had first, second and third-degree burns all over my body. Web. "Nobody paid him to go out there and try to rescue people," says Ken Pine, who recently fixed Bud's roof. Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 No thanks Nobody, not the pilots nor passengers, knew anything was amiss. From an aviation perspective, this was no small feat. 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. Web. "I'm going to send some flowers to Miami and have them put on the grave of my first wife," said Ronald Infantino, who lost his bride of 20 days in the crash. "Ladies, you're safe up there. She described him as dazed and unresponsive. The Ghost of Flight 401. The image of Repo said "Watch out for fire on this airplane," and then disappeared. It was one of the great ghost stories of the 1970s. Season 1. Edward presented the ring in a glass of champagne. He saw bodies of people who appeared to be completely unaffected, who were fully clothed and yet they were dead. Renee Joaquin Albert 8/3/36 It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. It was broken in the crash and he avoids putting any strain on it -- good advice for anyone his age, 67. What songs will we sing? one passenger asked. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 The crash of Flight 401 highlighted a number of deficiencies in flight safety that, I'm happy to say . 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. At some point the captain inadvertently bumped the control wheel, knocking the autopilot partially off. Don Repo survived long enough to reach the hospital, but he also proved to be too badly injured. Source Wikimedia Commons, Jon Proctor March 1972. 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. A mass of interesting testimony was produced as a result. As the plane descended on its final landing approach to Miami International Airport, a cheerful voice boomed over the cabins loudspeaker address system: Welcome to sunny Miami, the captain announced. About Flight 401 | The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. 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. Thanks to Jim Kalafus for the corrected names of Flight 401 victims drawn from Dade Country death certificate files and his continued research and participation in this effort. 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. As other reviewers note, this is the nonfiction story of Eastern Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades back in 1972. You know what would make Bud Marquis happy? At 11:32 p.m., Capt. The idea that a large, boxy, relatively delicate component like an oven or an elevator could have survived undamaged is immediately ludicrous at face value. This show is made possible by financial support from listeners like you. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 4 | It was shortly after the May 11, 1996 . That was a godsend because I got to meet and befriend many of the club members, most of whom were successful small business owners enjoying the fruits of their labor by owning and operating private aircraft (something that is almost cost prohibitive in today's aviation, regulatory and business environments). We're having legs tonight. Evidently, I wasn't so stupid as to put any regulatory violations in writing in my log book. She went and got another flight attendant, who came and saw the same thing. It was an easy way to break the monotony of intense study, tour the good old USA and also earn a few bucks and I must emphasize the aspect of the earnings. They were hospitalized for two months. 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. She was the first victim, along with her unborn son, discovered by the search team at 12:30 pm, December 30th), Patricia Renee Shackelford 12/9/52 (Pictured below). For those who haven't seen the images: In her initial report from the crash site a large Ukrainian wheat field "dotted with purple flowers and Queen Anne's lace" the New York Times . Leonhard discovered a hole in the bushes, roughly circular in shape and a little larger than the mouth of a culvert pipe. (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. Top Left: The girls of Flight 401. Allen M. Stark 8/11/49 I think all the survivors had been rescued by that time and taken to hospitals, but there were a lot of bodies still at the crash site. What was so strange was that it was there in the first place. But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. 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. The left wingtip banked into the marsh at 227 miles per hour. Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. In his investigations talking with various airline employees (which occupy most of the book), he discovered the likely reason: According to the flight crew, who were highly reluctant to discuss it, Don Repo had appeared in the cockpit and talked them through the landing. One curious aspect of these sightings is that people always saw one or the other. Were not going to leave you.. The flight engineer on duty during this flight was a personal friend to Repo and instantly recognized the face as that of his deceased friend. In fact we all were troubled because, by the luck of the draw or fate, some passengers survived while others in similar situations who looked as though they should have survived, were killed. Incredibly, we found a man sitting alone on a small tussock. Mom apparently worked closely with that flight attendant. Skeptoid Media, Above: (L) Luis Mejia recovering from the crash in Palmetto Hospital in 1973 and (R) Carlos Polanco in 2004. They died. Anyway, the pilots couldn't tell if the wheels were down. "That's what really gets me. Source: Google Sites. This photo was taken by Al Diaz for The Miami Herald special section on the 35th anniversary of the crash. Fara Infantino 12/7/46 Loft even spoke to the ground crew, insisting that no checks were required as he had already done them. Charles H. Johnson - Miami Air Traffic Controller who was working Flight 401 dies, April 10, 2019. The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight | 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. Flight 401 - Flight Log | A graveside service will take place on Friday, December 4, at 10:30 AM. Even at 78, Marquis is an old-fashioned country boy. Bud and Nancy own 27 domestic cats, including 15 that live indoors on sofas, tables and bookshelves. 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. "It's 100 degrees in the house, honey," Nancy says, joining him on the porch. Bud no longer worked as a game warden - his day job was laying carpet. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 6 | Fortunately, Bud was an expert. 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