In the end, the crash was blamed on the crews preoccupation with the landing gear light.

Jet fuel seeped into his boots when he jumped into the water to yank the man up. Possible Curse of Seminole Indians |

He signed the transcript of his testimony "reluctantly" because of his condition.

Jose Garcia 6/4/47 . Eugene Schenker 6/24/30

He testified that the track starts about 50% of the way in, so if you start to push it in incorrectly, you don't realize it until the fixture is halfway in its housing and, by then, possibly jammed. He needed a respiratory therapist who, it turned out, needed him, too.

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The court held that Eastern Airlines could not liable for punitive damages absent proof that it was independently at fault). Im a stewardess. And then a warning: Dont anyone light a match! Raposa still feared a fireball. Some survivors recovered and adjusted better than others.

Fifty seconds after reaching their assigned altitude and when the plane was halfway through its U-turn, the captain instructed Stockstill to put the L-1011 on autopilot.

On December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp.

Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Marquis, in his reconditioned craft, will lead.

News clippings Marquis had kept flew out his broken windows when Hurricane Andrew blew through Homestead in 1992, but he is lucky: the storm destroyed the five houses across the street.

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I've always wanted some kind of recognition for the people who've lost their lives.".

Bleeding from her forehead, she was still strapped to her seat. To calm her screams, the rescuers carried her to Marquis' airboat. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol.

When Flight 401 from New York was about to land at MIA, the light indicating that the landing gear was down didnt come on.

Jonathan Adam Kaminer 8/22/70

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When investigators climbed into the crumpled hulk of the cockpit they found the control panel virtually intact. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts.

Because the computers were mismatched, Loft's side required 15 pounds of pressure to disengage, and Stockstill's side required 20 pounds of pressure.

Also aboard: Jan Minguzzi Coviello and her 4-year-old son, Nicky. WebEastern Flight 401 Muriel J. Abrahams Ames Ernest F. Bloodgood Jr. Loretta E. Everett Bloodgood Charles Camichel Jr. Donald Stanley Casadona Jr. Richard Danforth Childs Jr.

It is now known that "Mrs. McAvoy" was Donna Smith, Thomas McAvoy's traveling companion. Rosario Messina 2/29/26

A half-second chime indicating a change in altitude went unnoticed. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. USA, Plot info: Block 9-Row 11-Grave 8L-Section 3-Society Name: Granover UV, Plot info: Block 9-Row 11-Grave 7L-Section 3-Society Name Granover UV, Brooklyn, Back row: Pat Ghyssels, Trudy Smith, Adrianne Hamilton, Mercy Ruiz. Nicky was gone.

I never was able to see my wife. It was a heart-to- heart bond. Barry L. Mancuso 10/19/44

They married in 1974.

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Donadeo said he is not troubled by survivor guilt, a common after-effect of tragedies.

Lockheed L-1011 Cockpit | Edward moved to Scarborough, Maine to expand Winchesters presence in Northern New England and the Maritime provinces. I was wounded in World War II when the ship I was on was hit by a kamikaze.

Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities.

Marquis turned his headlamp skyward, waving them toward a nearby levee.

He was out that night on his airboat, gigging frogs with a new friend, Ray Dickens.

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Thats what really gets me.

Eastern Airlines, mistakenly believing they'd hired Marquis for the rescue, sent him $125. On impact, their infant daughter had flown out of her mothers arms. Marc Leshay 11/28/51 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. WebGhosts of Flight 401. WebFear of Landing. Klaus Schenck 9/5/39 Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401.

I could empathize with what Ron was going through.

Rescuers recovered his body in the light of the following day. Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. What to know, Unusual cargo found along Florida beach, cops say. He did well for a while had a big house in the Country Club of Miami and drove a Lincoln.

Coviello found Raposa and gave her the orphaned baby. She still holds on to her sons last moments of life. Iowa Owl has not added any memorials to this virtual cemetery.

The remote crash site proved problematic.

Front row from the left: Dottie Warnock, Pat Ghyssels, Beverly Raposa, Patty Georgia, Stephanie Stanich.

Infantino also won a large legal settlement and lost everything.

Nery Palma 7/12/34 Suffolk County, USA, Plot info: Section 15-Laurel Green-Block 1-Grave 858, Plot info: Section 14-Row F-Graves 176-182, Carolina, Robert Loft, 55; First Officer Albert Stockstill, 39, and Second Officer Donald Repo, 51, all of Miami-Dade.

I tried to help as many as I could, said Marquis, now 78, who still lives in Homestead. Allen M. Stark 8/11/49

It would be hard to make up a plausible story like Ronald Infantinos too sad, too joyful. Murray Yellin 6/9/11 His right arm was badly hurt.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Don Schneck arrived on a chopper out of Opa-locka Airport and jumped on Marquiss airboat for a ride into the belly of the crash. You wait for a pattern of operation." I have chosen to list him as a survivor as he was alive at the time of the NTSB hearings.

They were hospitalized for two months. Survivors and families of the victims of Eastern Flight 401 are trying to collect $15,000 for an engraved granite block to serve as a memorial to the 101 people killed when the jet crashed in the Everglades northwest of Miami on Dec. 29, 1972.

This could be the case, however, only if Stockstill had selected the "A" computer, which would be unlikely as the switch for the "A" computer is on Loft's side of the control panel. What happened, Beverly? Ruiz asked, confused. Given this information, the NTSB hypothesized that Loft had probably bumped the control column when he turned to tell flight engineer Repo to "get down there and see if that goddamn nose wheel's down." Nobody knew exactly what happened, said former Eastern flight attendant Irene Baljed.

Helicopters swooped just south of the wreckage.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401. I dont question what the Lord does..

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Sudden interest in the 35-year-old crash disturbed his quiet.



Dennis Gordon 12/9/32 With no one flying the plane or noticing its steady descent at flight speed, it flew itself into the ground.

May Albury, Verena Bieri, Carl Bolufe, Rigoberto Bolufe, Sandra Burt, Gustavo Cassado, Mrs Xeimara Casado, Miss Christina Casado, Ann Connell, Barry Connell, Mariel Diegeriez, Gerald W Eskow, Sylvia Fisher, Ms. F. Frankin, Herbert Fresko, Molly Fresko, Alicia Garcia, Julia Garcia, Kathryn F.Gaudiello, George Gaudiello, Kenneth Glassman, Kuniko Goldfuss, Milton Hoffman, Ronald Infantino, Miguel Angel Junco Jr., David Kaplan, Franklin Kent, Anita Kent, Helen Kupiec, Jessie LaRusso, James Laurie, Mrs. Leone Levine, Cornelia Leya, Thomas McAvoy, Joseph Mazur, Rose Mazur, Luis Mejia, Richard N. Micale, Albert J Morris, Janice Minguzzi, Christina Ochoa, Allen Okanawsky, Oneida Pares, Aristides Pares, Martha Pares, Carlos Polanco, Lucino Polanco, Joseph Popson, Richard Pragluski, Goldez Quinico, Evelyn Ragalia, Marie Rego, Glen Remkus*, Francoise Riette, Thomas Rothenberg, Martin Siminerio, Bonnie Silverman, Donna Smith, Millie Soberon, Jerald Solomon, Larry Sumpkins, Marilyn Taylor, Edward Ulrich, Jesse C. Walker, Allen Weiss, Lorenzo Zetlin.

Charles H. Johnson - Miami Air Traffic Controller who was working Flight 401 dies, April 10, 2019. The fifteen million dollar aircraft was destroyed.

She had died, 20 days after they married.

But it was too late. Among those possibilities, a brain condition the pilot may have had that may have suddenly impaired his eyesight. Little Christina was floating face up, cradled by luggage and debris, protected by a cage of mangled metal.

Moaning. Today, she still has the small, cream-colored suitcase she carried the night of the crash.

onboard the small plane was William Gregg, who was onboard another small plane December 29th and had reported seeing Flight 401 crash to the Miami tower. Ghyssels, 25, a graduate of Miami Norland Senior High, would be dead within minutes. Jana Dedek 6/24/53 The names of the 101 passengers who were killed were read in a ceremony that was attended by family members and some of the 75 who survived.

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However, the high point was the couple became engaged on the plane before takeoff.

"I need to do it. Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40

For over thirty years Charlie worked with the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller. I guess I was always on the edge without knowing it. In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. Marquis, now age 78, greets visitors with a firm handshake and twinkling eyes. Nicholas Minguzzi 8/5/68 Schneck could hear voices coming from the cockpit. However, he was released on parole on Tuesday after serving a total of 12.5 years behind bars.

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We found out later what had happened. A Military Burial with Honors will be held at a later date, at South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, Florida.

Somehow, in the confusion, the auto pilot got turned off and, without anyone realizing it, the plane gradually flew into the ground. Schneck, now 59, of Rogers, Ark., reached the front of the jet first and found two flight attendants, Adrianne Hamilton, 27, and Sue Tebbs, 28.

The 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.

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. She had set Nicky down to sleep in a row of two seats by the window; she settled across the aisle.

Dr. Aftabuddin Chowdhury 1/1/43 Deleting this Virtual Cemetery cannot be undone.

Flight 401 - Flight Log |

Starring Mercy Ruiz, Cindy Kaza, Ron Infantino Genres Documentary, Unscripted Subtitles In the end, Flight 401 had carried 176 persons and within a month of the crash, the final tally would be 103 victims.

The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet.

Frantically, Coviello began to feel her way in the darkness, searching for her son in the muck and razor-sharp sawgrass. Below: Franklin and Anita Kent celebrate Franklin's pending release from Palm Springs hospital with some ice cream, on February 17, 1973 (W.O.

"There was no indication that the crew was unaware of its altitude," Johnson testified.

Minor, Miami Herald) Below, Right, Mrs Leona Levine on March 15, 1973 (Joe Elbert, Miami Herald).

Trudy Jean Smith, age 73, of Dallas, Georgia, formerly of Deport, Texas, died November 29, 2020. Silvia Crespo 11/30/32

North Carolina,

Helen Marie Chestnut 4/17/39 You could hear the cry of death. New York,

Then 25 and living in Brooklyn, Coviello was coming to Hialeah to help her mother recuperate from surgery.

She touched a bundle on the ground. Thirty-five years after Eastern Airlines Flight 401 plummeted into the Florida Everglades, airboat pilot Bud Marquis is finally being recognized for his actions that night that saved untold lives. Marquis, a former wildlife officer familiar with the hidden watery pathways, directed them to the crash site and nearby Levee 67 a narrow lane of firm ground in the middle of the swamp, reacheable only by airboat or chopper.

It was like a mushroom cloud, but it died quickly, he said.

There was nothing out there that night but me, he said. Rosemary Mancuso 10/31/49

Jose Rego 9/5/19 At one point, he stopped near Raposa, who had found fellow flight attendant Mercedes "Mercy" Ruiz still strapped into her seat.

In May, 1973, the NTSB made two recommendations regarding the design of the L-1011. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed.



Marquis met Ruiz, Raposa and other survivors for the first time at a Dec. 3 ceremony. New York,

The difference between the two is that while one required 15 pounds of pressure on the control column to disengage the system, and the other required 20 pounds of pressure. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Loft across the control panel, in bad shape. "We could see the tail of the airplane, white in the darkness. I was too young for that kind of stuff. Stephanie Rae Stanich 11/10/48

Richard Childs 5/21/52 The crew of Flight 401, taken while on the ground in MIA earlier the day of the crash.

Lost - Flight 401 Passengers (Name and Birthdate) Elise Grace Agate 9/3/42. The Ghost of Flight 401: Mystery Files | He found one, selling $500 vacuum cleaners in Tampa.

2022 TV-14. Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 Crawling through the darkness and muck, she found fellow flight attendant Mercy Ruiz, 29, of Hialeah, who had been hurled from the plane.

Richard L. Marquis, a carpet-layer, saw it too.

Strangely, killed. A total of 101 people died in the crash, but miraculously 75 survived.

The flight had been normal until the final approach into Miami.

As days pased, flight attendant Stephanie Stanich's body had still not been recovered.

Two others did not want to be reminded. An Eastern Airlines jet had crashed in the Everglades on the way to Miami International Airport.

He was interviewed on January 8th, while under heavy sedation in a Miami hospital.

Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | The time was 9:20 p.m. ", Another retired Eastern Airlines L-1011 captain which whom I have had contact Queens County, Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | By 11:41 p.m., Capt.

Marquis chuckled at the memory. One was Micale, who they found alone on a clump of swamp muck, drenched in swamp water and jet fuel.

Varujan Eskihanci 9/7/25 In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the, Hospice of Southern Maine 390 US Route One, Scarborough, ME 04074, Official Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - History, Photos, Survivors and Tribute. He was a devoted husband of sixty-two years to his first wife Martha (nee Regan) and beloved husband of his second wife Sue Johnson.Charlie was a loving son to the late Junius and Rachel Johnson, much loved father of the late Tracy Johnson and dear brother to the late Jeane Johnson Stanfield.

She is now vice president of Generations Gold, a financial marketing firm in West Palm Beach.

When Johnson was asked if he was treating Flight 401 as if it were an emergency situation, Johnson replied, "no."

Theres also interest in creating a memorial marker to honor those who died in the crash.

The cockpit crew removed the light assembly and the flight engineer was dispatched into the hell hole to visually check if the gear was down.

Michael Ann Kaminer 12/28/45

IE 11 is not supported. An airboat speeding across the sawgrass and mud. He and his wife, Donna, live in Christmas, a small town between Orlando and Cape Canaveral.



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Donald Louis Repo 5/10/21 Search above to list available cemeteries. Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. Flight Attendant Beverly Raposa (seen here in testifying at the hearing in the photo below), recalled that after the decent into Miami International had been aborted, the go-around flight was smooth, with no indication of there being anything wrong until impact.

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.

Carol Susan Jackter 9/26/52 He had scarcely recovered from a bad auto accident when 401 crashed. In late 1972 the two were passengers in a plane crash that left both with debilitating painful injuries. Eventually all the evidence was presented in a public hearing held in the "Florida Room" of the Miami Springs Villas on March 5, 1973.

The death toll at the time was the highest of any one-plane accident in U.S. civil aviation history.

Bound for Miami, Flight 401 took off from New Yorks JFK airport at 9:20 p.m. I told my friend Keep an eye on that spot, and we headed out there..

The injured were distributed at several hospitals and collecting accurate information became impossible.

By the time the meetings were over, the computer printouts from the Flight Data Recorder had been deciphered, and the voices of men now two months dead had been resurrected from the recording tapes.

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. Abbey Lynn Greenwald 9/18/52 Hudson County,

As the plane circled, Ruiz, seated in the back of the plane, walked over to flight attendant Pat Ghyssels and wondered why the aircraft was flying away from city lights. Ironically, on June 21, 1973, Charles Johnson was on duty in the Miami tower when a small plane crashed in the Everglades after having its radio tuned to the wrong frequency.

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He looked me straight in the eye and said, Im going to die. I put both my hands on his forearms and said: Youre gonna make it..

In both Gellert's and Oakes' cases, they noted the autopilot light went out when they bumped the columns. Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | Copyright 2022 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

Two more would die later, Luis Bancroft on January 6 and Warren Terry on January 15th. 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. can a police officer marry someone with a criminal record; examples of strengths and weaknesses of a community; harvest basket instant mashed potato instructions; flight 401 victims.

We toast to the day our second life began, Christina Casado-Acorn said of her familys ritual every Dec. 29. AlanNachmias 5/16/50

The pilots recycled the gear. Coviello took the baby in her arms. It looks like were gonna have to circle; we dont have a light on yet..

Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 Ghosts of Flight 401 - 4 |

To the flight 401 survivors - Franoise RietteDecember 30, 2020, 5:02 pm Shelley and Steve Rubin and their unborn baby boy- Sandy ShapiroDecember 30, 2020, 12:45 am My In-Laws- Karen BearmanDecember 29, 2020, 7:24 pm Heroes- Douglas December 29, 2020, 5:54 pm We will not forget- JEDecember 29, 2020, 12:11 pm It was broken in the crash and he avoids putting any strain on it -- good advice for anyone his age, 67. So it is possible that the soft, short audio alert went unnoticed in the din of cockpit noise. Miami International Airport Sighting |

NOTE - There is no official death certificates for "Mrs. McAvoy," which appeared in passenger lists released to the press at the time.

The Flight 401 Was A Normal Flight |

The tower instructed the L-1011 to pull out of its decent, climb to two thousand feet, and then make a U-turn and flight west over the darkness of the Everglades. Theyll be here soon..

Then, for more than three decades, there was mostly silence about the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Everglades.

As we approach another anniversary of the crash, here is a look back at what happened from the archives of the Miami Herald. The airspeed needle on Loft's side read 198 knots.

To use this feature, use a newer browser. Johnson stammered for a moment and then sheepishly said, "I don't know. Above: ATC controller Charles Johnson at the NTSB hearings. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972, setting off a scrambled of reporters and rescuers in one of the biggest tragedies Miami has seen. From 10 miles away, Marquis and his friend saw a fiery orange flash and speeded toward it.

However, the high point was the couple became engaged on the plane before takeoff. Had Loft bumped the column with more than 15, but less than 20 pounds of pressure, Loft's altitude hold light would have gone out, and Stockstill's light would remain on, giving him the erroneous impression that the autopilot was still engaged and holding the plane at two thousand feet. New Jersey, This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed.

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With one phone call to the party and other calls to people at home, they were on the story of their lives. She said to me: Oh, Mercy, stop complaining.

Seven seconds later, the plane's left wing dug into the swamp at 227 mph, sending it pinwheeling.

Then the commuter airline folded.

One hundred and three people died.

Among survivors and families at Thursdays event were other Eastern Airlines employees who can clearly remember the news from that day.

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