Immediate Family: Son of Joseph Frost. It seemed a combination of system malfunction and temporary distraction of the crew was to blame for the crash. When the main part of the fuselage hit the ground, it continued to move through the grass and water, breaking up as it went. Subscribe to our free newsletter and join our subscribers. Captain Loft was found during the autopsy to have an undetected brain tumor in an area that controls vision. For a year and a half after Flight 401 went down, both crew members and passengers reported seeing the deceased Captain Robert Loft and flight engineer Donald Repo on other L-1011 flights. Darrell H. Bardstown, Kentucky. of the men simply moved on from our realm of existence after so long? Both pilots, the flight engineer, 2 of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers all died. A system error has occurred. The final conversation gave investigators enough of a clue to then piece together the timeline that led the pilots to be in the fatal position they found themselves. His body may have been found in County Louth. Required fields are marked *. 2) He first entered the service in 1776. [5]:30[6]:99 The aircraft was fleet number 310, and the 10th TriStar delivered to the carrier. Try again later. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Sir, I presume upon your former Friendship for Colonel Robert Stuart to trouble you with the enclosed Extracts of a Letter I lately received from him, as the most effectual Method I can devise of complying with his Request. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. However, a push on the steering systems in a specific way, would disengage the autopilot. A TV movie. Captain Robert Loft and First Officer Don Repo were among those who had perished in the crash, and the crew of other Eastern Airlines planes insisted their ghosts made appearances on-board later . On 29th December 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 came crashing out of the sky and into the Florida Everglades. [15][18] The reported hauntings were said to be seen only on the planes that used the spare parts. Perhaps the final conversation heard by the control tower between Captain Loft and First Officer Stockstill is the best place to start when unfolding the tragic circumstances of 29th December 1972. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Stockstill: Were still at 2,000 feet, right? After lowering the landing gear, the First Officer saw that the indicator, a green light identifying that the nose gear was accurately secured in the down position, had not turned on. Try again later. 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. Edgar Allen Poe By Portfolio Editor Roz Hamlett Unlike many ghost tales, this one - which originated . The Everglades were rushing towards them. The following conversation was recovered from the flight voice recorder later: Less than 10 seconds after this exchange, the jetliner crashed: The location was west-northwest of Miami, 18.7mi (30.1km) from the end of runway 9L. Robert Loft, First Officer Albert Stockstill and Second Officer Donald Repo steered Flight 401 toward Miami International Airport after an uneventful flight from New York. Your email address will not be published. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. This account has been disabled. Those were the last words of Captain Robert Loft, 38 years ago tonight. In the following years, however, passengers and crew alike began to not only see Loft and Repo on and around Eastern Airlines flights, many unknowing people even had brief conversations with them. Ancient DNA unlocks secrets of marriage rules in Minoan Crete! Real Paranorms. It was a pleasure to meet and fish with you and Daniel! One anonymous captain claimed to have seen Repo before a flight he was about to pilot. 20 strangest facts about dreams that you never heard of. . COPYRIGHT UNSOLVED MYSTERIES & PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES, 2017-2018. He would later identify the mystery man as Loft when looking up a picture of the deceased pilot. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Robert Loft, 55, a seasoned pilot with 32 years under his belt. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience. Out of thin air, Repos voice would say, Watch out for fire on this plane. Accueil; Prsentation; Dpollution; Nos vhicules; Nos pices In her spare time, she loves reading, watching movies, making crafts, and watching hockey. Year should not be greater than current year. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. The crash was followed by reports of the appearance of apparitions of Flight 401 crew members, including Captain Loft, on subsequent flights. Learn more about merges. At around 5:00am, this person closed their eyes and after feeling as if someone was near, this individual opened their eyes to find someone sitting in the aisle seat. Services were Nov. 30, with inurnment at Fort Logan National Cemetery. It could well be the ghosts of Captain Robert Loft or Second Officer Don Repo, keeping watch and making sure your flight arrives safely. A womans face screaming up. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Robert Albin Bob Loft I found on Findagrave.com. [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 flight departed JFK Airport on Friday, December 29, 1972, at 9:20 PM, with 163 passengers and a total of 13 crew members on board. This is the tragic tale of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 and the madness it left in its wake. The home is a 2-pen structure with a large sleeping loft running the entire second floor. As it turned out, Robert Loft was in fact the name of the pilot and Don Repo was the flight engineer who both passed away in the crash. Although Eastern Airlines themselves refused to publicly speak of them, many paranormal investigators managed to speak to their employees. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Then, it dropped 100ft (30m), and then again flew level for two more minutes, after which it began a descent so gradual it could not be perceived by the crew. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. It was the first fatal crash involving not only the Lockheed TriStar, but, indeed, a widebody aircraft of any kind. Now, though, it seemed they were acting as guardians over their former employers flights. Learn more about managing a memorial . The disintegration of the aircraft that followed scattered wreckage over an area 1,600ft (500m) long and 330ft (100m) wide in a southwesterly direction. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. By this time, Frank Borman was the CEO of Eastern Airlines who called the stories a haunting garbage and considered suing the producers of the 1978 made-for-TV movie The Ghost of Flight 401 for tarnishing Eastern Airlines reputation. What followed not only left a trail of body parts, broken hearts, mass hysteria, damning accusations but a mass grave now populated by alligators and ghosts. To Captain Robert McKenzie. Officer Repo died the next day. When she returned to her seat with the stewardess following behind her, both women saw who was later identified as Don Repo just fade away and vanish before their eyes. The ghosts of Flight 401 are perhaps some of the most credible accounts of life beyond the grave. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. No complete cross-section of the passenger cabin remained, and both the port wing and tailplane were demolished to fragments. Never been back to that place since that moment around here, we do our best to avoid that area.. He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to the hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. Captain Robert Cleveland was born in Virginia around 1744 and moved with his family to western North Carolina around 1766. . Things swam below the surface of the swamp, things dressed in rags and tattered clothes. [2] The attendant in question would approach a gentleman who was standing in the galley to ask him if required assistance. Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 Don Repo and Bob Loft. GREAT NEWS! His flight crew included First Officer Albert John "Bert" Stockstill, 39, who had 5,800 hours of flying experience (with 306 of them in the L-1011), and Flight Engineer Donald Louis "Don" Repo, 51, who had 15,700 hours of flying experience, with 53 of them in the L-1011. Some quick-thinking actions such as singing Christmas carols to keep up hope and attract the rescue teams attention, as flashlights were not part of the regular equipment on commercial airliners at the time, ended up proving invaluable during the crisis. She would leave her seat temporarily to find a staff member as one of their staff, a flight attendant who was sitting next to her was obviously feeling unwell. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Robert Loft (17211647)? Sightings of the spirits of Don Repo and Robert Loft spread throughout Eastern Air Lines to the point where Easterns management warned employees that they could face dismissal if caught spreading ghost stories. The 13 crew members on board were passing up cocktails, the 163 passengers were passed out either drunk or asleep. On the approach to Runway 9L for landing at Miami, First Officer Albert Stockstill, the pilot Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Fuller describes anecdotes of strange happenings aboard other Eastern aircraft. Please enter your email and password to sign in. As for the cargo, the flight was booked solid. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. 27 January 2016 by Iain Russell. The story of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 starts off right after the crash. About 490 feet (150m) from the wingtip's initial contact with the ground, the massive fuselage had begun to break up, scattering components from the underfloor galley, the cargo compartments, and the cabin interior. If you don't like what you read, you can unsubscribe at any time. [5]:2729, A company employeetechnical officer Angelo Donadeo, 47, returning to Miami from an assignment in New Yorkaccompanied the flight crew for the journey, but was officially an off-duty, "nonrevenue passenger". As for the latest ghostly encounter, an individual who was on a red-eye flight from Chicago to Miami last year was supposedly visited by the crew from Flight 401 and the apparitions appeared when the aircraft was over the Florida Everglades. Other Ghostly Tales Of Airports And Air Travel, https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/10/21/ghost-flight-401/3715665001/, https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/flight-attendant-reveals-craziest-plane-ghost-stories-shes-heard/news-story/acdf057fbf62aec72923f6b6fbee40aa, https://www.10best.com/interests/explore/haunted-travel-scary-stories-to-send-shivers-down-your-spine/, The Japanese Airlines Flight 1628 UFO Encounter, Chilling Tales Of Traveling Ghosts And Phantom Vehicles, The Truly Bizarre Account Of Santiago Flight 513, The American West Flight 564 UFO Incident, The Ghosts Of Room 18 At The St. James Hotel. They failed to notice that the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected and, subsequently, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. Failed to report flower. The man would ask the attendant to pass a message to a woman, whom he named, that was on board the flight. If you don't like what you read you can unsubscribe at any time. 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