LOST SOULS | Tragedy and Haunting of Flight 401 😱 😲
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🔊On December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 aircraft, tragically crashed into the Florida Everglades, claiming the lives of 101 people and sparking a decades-long investigation into the cause of the disaster, which remains one of the most infamous aviation accidents, plane crashes, and unexplained mysteries in American history. The tragedy was further shrouded in mystery by the subsequent haunting and paranormal activity reported by survivors, rescue workers, and airline employees, including ghostly apparitions, unexplained noises, and bizarre occurrences, cementing Flight 401's place in the annals of haunted history, ghost stories, and supernatural phenomena.
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📌 If you have your own ghostly encounters, share them in the comments below. We might feature your story in a future episode... Thanks!!
My next door neighbor was one of the 75 survivors. I spoke with her years after she recovered. She said they were circling due to the landing gear issue and then the left wing dipped and the plane started to cartwheel to the left. She remembers waking up on a mound of saw grass and looking up and seeing the lights of a helicopter as she screamed "I'm alive help me!" She was brought into the hospital in a bag. She had broken bones everywhere. She was lucky to have survived. It's not everyday that a kid gets to speak to the survivor of a commercial airplane crash and I was so interested in knowing what she could recall.
Thank you for sharing your story, @6733hbr1! It must have been quite a conversation when you finally got the chance to talk to her after her recovery. It's incredible that she could recall the details of the plane hitting the Everglades and cartwheeling to the left, especially considering the traumatic nature of the event ~ Dan (TTHL)
Thank you for telling this story.
My dad was an an EAL employee when this crash happened and worked in the building at 10:03 (i was a toddler and, incidentally, i would become a proud, albeit short-term, employee of the EAL family 15 years later a couple of years before their bankruptcy filing). This crash dogged EAL throughout the 70s and into the 80s. It didn't help that it happened when horror novels and horror movies as a genre were beginning to grow and become high demand. I remember as a kid seeing the paperback novel "The Ghost of Flight 401" at pretty much every pharmacy and supermarket reading section for many, many years.
Great comments... my Dad was a Western Airlines employee at the time and would tell us stories about the ghost of Flight 402 to my brothers and I. Thanks for the comment ~ Dan (TTHL)
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They say the L1011 was a tech marvel , ahead of its time. Beautiful aircraft.
Yes, that's what they said!! As it turned out there was a lot the learn from the L-1011 that helped the advancement of passenger aircraft in the future. Thanks for the comment ~ TTHL
planes are terrifying as it is, such a sad story 💔 may the victims all r.i.p.
Well said!!
In 1977 I was heaving a late dinner in the Bahamas. My wife and I started talking to 2 pilots for Chalk airline (I think Malard Duck Seaplanes). That was there weekend job. Normally they were mechanics for Eastern Airlines in the New York area. They told us that one night an eastern L1011 came in for militance and they were instructed to take out the galley and replace it with a new one. The suggested they could fix the old one , but no way, just replace it. Later they heard about the sightings in the old galley which had come from flight 401. As the 401 had a lot of usable parts after it bellied into the glades. In my plane I flew over the crash site a month later (now this is 5 years after the accident). We had the exact DME from MIA VOR. As we reached the spot (of course nothing on the ground anymore) my compass just started spinning for no good reason. After we left the area, no problems with the compass.
Interesting... great comment!! thanks ~ Dan (TTHL)
First rule I learned as a pilot. “Aviate, navigate, communicate”. They broke that rule.
Exactly, right!!
For years no one could understand why the crew "ignored" the chime announcing that the autopilot disengaged. The chime was clearly on the tape but it might not have been for all the good it did. Until one day it was spotted that the microphone which recorded the chime was located RIGHT NEXT TO THE SPEAKER from which it emerged! In such close proximity to the mic, of course it was picked up by the microphone and of course it was recorded in sufficient volume! It was within an inch of the mic face! The pilots, however, were substantially further away from the speaker and the sound of the chime could not be heard over the cockpit noise due to air movement and the chatter accompanying the misoperating nosewheel light. But the light was only one factor involved. In addition to the low sound level of the chime, the light in the wheel well of the nose gear was inoperational as well, thus the flight engineer could not see the nose wheel target (an set of crosshairs on the gear strut itself which were visible when the landing gear was in the down position) in the dark through the tiny telescope installed for that very purpose. Procedures called for flying past the tower with the landing gear extended but the dark and no light in the wheel well conspired to force them to go to the next solution which was to replace the nose gear bulb with a new one. And here's where it got crazy and our concatenation of errors extends even more: There were no spare landing gear lamps in their designated location! Thus the only thing that could be done was to remove the offending light bulb and replace it with one that they knew worked: one of the lamps for the main gear. So far so good, except that the lamp for the nose wheel would not come out. Weird because they are designed to come out. When several attempts to remove it failed, it appears Captain Bob Loft got frustrated, bypassed the crew and went to do it himself. In the process, he turned toward the centre console and the flight data recorder shows he struck the control yoke per the flight data recorder. Applying pressure to the yoke is how one disengages the autopilot normally so why didn't Loft notice this? One might put that down to negligence but Loft was a veteran of many hours and did not make mistakes like that. The reason was the impact was not enough to cause the autopilot to disengage, YET IT HAD! Unbeknowst to the flight crew, the autopilot multiplier switch was set at 1/2 instead of 1. (This makes an autopilot useful to a large range of airplanes: for small airplanes, it was set at 1/2, for medium aircraft it was set at 1 and for very large aircraft it was set at 2. Once installed and set, this switch is never touched again!) Recall this was a comparatively new plane. Having been set at 1/2 instead of 1, the yoke took only 7.5 lbs of pressure to disengage instead of the requisite 15 lbs. One might ask why earlier crews never noticed. On flights autopilots are usually only ever engaged at altitude well away from other aircraft and never near the ground. Such autopilot behaviour would likely never be noticed while flying straight and level at altitude normally but near the ground such condition was a distinct liability. The copilot could not see the Captain's flight instrument panel and the two pilot's controls were disconnected from one another at the moment thus the copilot, monitoring his own and thinking the autopilot was on (he was monitoring his own instruments, not the Captain's ) only got clues something was wrong when the plane went into a mild descent. It did not help that beneath them and around them there were no lights on a dark night to highlight the ground. Thus it was that design and circumstance let them, Eastern Airlines and the crew and passengers down. It was sad night and the crew and the airline took the blame hard. In hindsight, it would perhaps have been better to have avoided use of the autopilot altogether and for Stockwell to have hand flown 401. There is evidence too that the thrust levers had been pushed forward right before impact upon realizing a mistake had been made but the crew were undoubtedly as mystified as ever at the situation!
I encountered a company using this as an example of bad "cockpit resource management" I corrected them but found out months later they were still using it. I shake my head. The answer is a little more complicated than that. I believe a little later that a similar chime was ignored in a Polish LOT airline incident. Same cause and similar result!
You can't know your airplane enough. Most flight crew would never know about autopilot installation and installation settings, nor would they be expected to. But if you are going to fly, you can never know enough!
Great information 👍 thank you so much for taking the time to share all of your comments.
It seems that when a plane goes down, regardless of the type, it is always a series of small events that contribute to the accident rather than just one.
We can never go back and sit in the seats of any pilots in the moments that lead up to any crash.
Thanks again for your great comments!! ~ Dan (TTHL)
The Everglades is just as dark and as Mysterious today
That would be one of the last places I'd want to end up that's for sure... to many alligators and creepy creatures 😟
I remember reading this book fifty years ago. When I found it in the nonfiction section of the public library, I thought, at first, for it to be a mistake, but then I read the book and got goose bumps, several times. When I found the VHS in Blockbuster video (William Shatner version), I found that the movie didn't do the book justice, at all (William Shatner's overacting just killed the story). Several years ago I found the "other" movie and felt that it was a lot closer to the book.
Thanks for the heads up!!
As an avionics tech on a test flight of an L1011, I was trouble shooting a nose gear warning light. On takeoff the flight crew retracted the landing gear. I needed to go down into the electronics bay. There a little window that I could marks on the gear lock mechanism. I was in the cockpit. I lifted the hatch for the electronics bay. As I descended down the stairs, I took one glance at the at the gear lights. All the crew was looking at me!!! The thoughts of flight 401 flashed before my eyes. Fortunately we were climbing and the autopilot was engaged (I think). The bay is incredibly cramped, noisy and blowing cold air. I quickly verified the nose gear was indeed was up and locked. I gave a thumbs up as I ascended from the pit and locked the hatch
Wow... what a great story. Thank u so much for sharing ur experience on the L-1011 ~ Dan (TTHL)
@@TTHLposted As an avionics tech on the L1011, I loved the L10 because mechanics loved me because I was the only one that understood the L1011. Lockheed relied heavily on relays. I understood relays. I got a lot of overtime. I loved that plane
Yes, sounded like a great plane. The crash was a terrible loss for all parties involved. @@oldmech619
I was 9 years old when this crash happened. Everytime I saw Eastern Airlines, I felt a cold shudder and it scared me to death. My parents were divorced, and I unfortunately I lived with my mother. However, my daddy got full custody when I turned 12, in 1975.
My dad had remarried by then. He married a woman who worked for Delta. I became an airline brat. We took many vacations, & I remember sitting around the gate agent, praying that we would be able to get on the flight! Flying standby was nerve wracking, & I remember several flights being overbooked, & we didn't get on flights. Also remember flying to Alaska & getting stuck there for days!😩
After I graduated from college, I went straight to the airport and was offered a job by both American & Eastern. I just could not allow myself to work for Eastern, because of this flight! I worked at the airport for 5 years as an AA ticket/gate/baggage agent. After that, I went on to become an AA flight attendant. This crash has always given me an eerie and heeby jeeby feeling!😩
Great comment!! I myself was an airline brat. My Dad was a Captain at Delta and I am now a retired American pilot. Thanks for the comment.
Well May 25,1979, a DC - 10, American Airlines Flight#191 unfortunately crashed after taking off from Chicago O'Hare killing everyone on board!
@@TTHLposted oh wow!! Ironic that your dad flew for Delta, & you are a retired American pilot!😧 Where were you based? I was based in San Fran. (SFO). Before I ever went to the airport to apply for any job with the airlines, I wanted to fly for Delta, but they had a nepotism rule. ( They changed that rule awhile back.)
So, when I applied at the airport, the BEST airline to work for, besides Delta, was for American!❤️✈️ and my very FAVORITE airplane to work on was the Mad dog! 🛫 MD-80!🥰
@tracycolvin7789 Very Cool... I was based in DFW and LAX most of the time. If u flew the 757, u may have worked with me. I remember the nepotism rule at Delta. I remember when Delta bought Western. Those were the good old days of one airline welcoming another. Not so much nowadays. American did not treat the TWA pilots the same way, or Reno Airlines, for that matter. Don't even get me started about the American Eagle crews. Anyway, thanks for your remarks. I enjoyed reading them ~ Dan (TTHL)
@@daren7889 yes, I'm well aware! Awful crash, and the worst airline crash in U.S. history.😔😥
But remembering as a child about the Eastern flight was thinking of the alligators eating some of their passengers, & the very dark swampy Everglades, just left a eerie feeling to me that has never left my mind!
As far as the AA flight, I've seen it on video of them flying after takeoff, completely on their left side before crashing...so very, very sad!😥 That crash was totally avoidable! I often wondered about the mechanics who worked that fork lift, and picked up both the jet engine and wing to put it back together on the plane, all while saving precious time, INSTEAD of doing what was in the manuel and following instructions. Yes, it would take longer to complete the job if the rules & instructions said to put the wing on first, followed by the engine, but it would have saved 275 people, 273 on plane and 2 on the ground.
When I was a flight attendant with AA, and based in San Fran, I had to fly alot of transcontinental flights to New York city& back to San Fran. I had a fellow flight attendant that was my roomie & we sometimes flew together. We sat in the back in our jumpseats, while rolling down the runway, & taking off. I literally SCARED TO DEATH flying on the DC-10!!😰😩
This DC-10 crash in Chicago really made me scared and would literally cause me anxiety when I flew on them, just because of this crash!!
You have to be pretty cheap to reuse parts from a wrecked airliner.
You'd think so...
Eastern.@@TTHLposted
The parts were backordered because of the demand and Eastern needed them to get their fleet of L10-11s operational. Lockheed eventually caught up and it went on to become a great aircraft!
very interesting thanxx
please be cover the DC-10 Chicago O'Hare crash, ghost were be scené there too
Hadn't heard of that one, we'll check it out... thanks!!
I wasn't familiar with this incident from 1972, thanks for bringing it to my attention on YT. While this story has been covered before years ago (TV movie, book, song) and is fairly well documented in Wikipedia, I found the video production to be pretty good and consistent with the facts in the story. I didn't find this to be click baiting, and I didn't have any expectations about the accuracy of this presentation from an aviation standpoint, based on your channel name, I assumed this was for entertainment only. I can imagine it is difficult to accurately cover something that happened over 50 years with original source material. The "haunting" aspect to this is part of the popular folk lore associated with this incident, as also documented in Wikipedia.
Thank you for ur comment @kevindingo22... you hit the nail right on the head! Everything you just said is absolutely TRUE!! I come from an aviation family and I am a retired airline pilot myself. 99% of my friends are either still flying with the airlines or close to retirement with 35,000+ hours of flight time and I was sad, to say the least, to read the last comment. The last thing we want to do here at TTHL is mislead someone. Our sole purpose is to ENTERTAIN. I can't agree with you more. My Dad use to tell us stories about Flight 401 when he would come home after a trip and my brothers and I loved it!! We couldn't get enough. Thank you for thinking outside of the box!! We will definitely take note of ur comment ~ Dan (TTHL)
... correction: kevindigo22 "sorry"
Pilots bewildered by lowering altitude, happening your brain has gone gaga.
We can never go back and see exactly what a flight crew was experiencing at any given moment. However, It seemed like a series of small mistakes that led to a bigger one... unfortunately, aviation can be very unforgiving. Thanks for ur comment ~ TTHL
? @@TTHLposted We never can?? What about Black box's? Records the Cabin crew? Well I still got thee impression the plane (and altimeter) keep getting lower, kind of like a car if you space out and ignore the gaspedal (life experience).
All great points... I was just suggesting that there may have been several other factors. I would think that 34 years ago there was no crew resource manage (CRM) like there is today. Also, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) quality was nowhere near what it is today. So, I was thinking that I didn't want to place blame, or make any kind of judgement of the crew. I would feel like an arm chair quarterback ~ TTHL
@@TTHLposted not sure about the blame, but not only ONE Light was out.... when I look at my speedometer i know what is going on, same as fuel one. Or driving off the road.... Not bewildered I KNOW!
No excuse (aside a FEDEX cockpit fight) while engaging in LANDING to forget checking your height for a whole minute.
2:30 The captain will not have requested a "missed approach". There's not such parlance. He would have instructed a Go Around.
Thank you very much for your comment. The correct term would be "instructed a go-around" and informed the tower of a missed approach. Thanks!!
Sounds like they didn't have a clue
Those pilots were not trained properly
Aviation is a completely different world 52 years later. An airline pilot once told me that, "The Federal Aviation Regulations are written in blood." Unfortunately, that's true. Not all, but a lot of advancements in aviation safety only happen after accidents... this was definitely the case. CRM and changes to autopilot systems and cabin safety procedures were implemented as a result of the tragic accident of flight 401. We really appreciate ur comments!! You've made some very good points , thanks ~ TTHL
Take a note if you actualy care about growing this channel.. The click baiting in unreal x10 every year.. However, you using the term of "haunting" along with a flight that myself and most other people who are pilots or even fans of aviation know exactly how this. Ell.. 10-11 went down... .. At the very least, if you are going to re-cover a long understood tragedy, using "haunting' for Flight 401 is lame... you are welcome for the comment, but you definitely aren't getting a subscriber or a thumbs up, almost completely to this.. Even the VCR recording is absolutely fake with the eception of mayben 3 very short snippets.. "I think it is above the red one', and atc responses were nowhere close to this quality back in when they crashed...
Thank you for your comment.
The paranormal issues that arose in connection to this accident have been well documented and several books on the subject were written detailing them. Eastern Airlines took the position of ignoring the initial reports but as the number of employees and passengers grew they were forced to acknowledge they were not jokes. UFO's reports were treated in the same manner until the Navy released well documented evidence into the public domain. These incidents are some of the most detailed and investigated in paranormal history. The reports were from many different sources and some trained observers by trade. I wouldn't dismiss the paranormal aspects out of hand...
@@TTHLpostedWill it make any difference though?
Love the handle @algorhythm... thanks for recognizing the name and intention of the channel!!
AGREED!! Several great points @brettp5543... thank you so much for your comment!! ~ Dan (TTHL)