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	Eastern Airlines Flight 401 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades on the night of December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities.
		The 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.
		Eastern Airlines CEO Frank Borman called it all a bunch of "crap" and considered suing the producers of the 1978 made-for-TV movie "The Ghost of Flight 401" for libel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Airlines_Flight_401 (1003 words)

	Eastern Air Lines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was preparing to land in Miami, Florida, in 1972, when the flight crew became distracted by a non-functioning gear light.
		In Eastern's flight 401 case, it was rumored that the ghost of the pilot who flew that night was later seen on some Eastern planes that carried parts of the doomed plane.
		During this era, Eastern's fleet was split between their "silver-colored hockey stick" livery (the lack of paint reduced weight by 100 pounds) and their "white-colored hockey stick" livery (on its Airbus-manufactured planes, the metallurgy of which required paint to cover the aircraft's composite skin panels).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Airlines (1297 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Eastern Air Lines
		Eastern made a successful transition to the jet age in the 1960s, but during the next decade labor conflicts, the rising cost of fuel, and debt incurred from purchasing new airplanes began a downward spiral for the company.
		Eastern also gained a reputation as a no-frills airline; although this reduced the company's expenditures, it detracted from the glamour that was part of an airline's marketing and promotion, and hurt the company's image.
		Eastern also underwent a facelift that gave the company a more polished image: aircraft were refurbished and a new color scheme was adopted; flight attendants and pilots received new uniforms; and such services as baggage handling, reservation services, and in-flight amenities were greatly improved.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1303 (1816 words)

	The Ghosts of Eastern Airlines Flight 401
		On the night of Friday, December 29th, 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was carrying 176 people as it neared it's destination of the Miami Airport.
		Eastern Airlines salvaged much of the stricken airplane and redistributed them among similar aircraft in their fleet.
		The airline was (at least outwardly) a bit skeptical of people who reported the sightings, and suggested that they seek psychiatric counceling at the company's expense.
	www.subversiveelement.com /Flight401EasternAirLines.html (413 words)

	The Ghost of Flight 401 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The strange tales of the ghostly airmen of Flight of 401 circulated in the airline community.
		One female passenger made a concerned enquiry to a flight attendant regarding the quiet, unresponsive man in Eastern Airlines uniform sitting in the seat next to her, who subsequently disappeared in full view of both of them and several other passengers, leaving the woman hysterical.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /donuts13/main_9.htm (1144 words)

	Controlled flight into terrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 near Miami, Florida on December 29, 1972.
		The distracted flight crew did not recognize the plane's slow descent and the completely airworthy aircraft struck the ground in the Everglades, killing 101 out of 176 passengers and crew.
		There is still disagreement over the exact causes of the crash, but it is commonly accepted that the pilots' loss of situational awareness and whiteout conditions at the time were contributory factors leading to the crash.
	www.tocatch.info /en/CFIT.htm (323 words)

	ipedia.com: Eastern Airlines Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 had landing in Miami, Florida in 1972, when the pilots became distracted by a non-functioning gear light.
		The Eastern Metro Express operation wasn't limited to Ponce, however, as, under that name, Eastern began services from its San Juan hub to Mayaguez and several other smaller Caribbean communities, from New York's JFK International Airport to several northeastern cities, and from Miami to many cities around the South.
		In 1985, an Eastern 727 from Peru crashed in the mountains, leaving all its passengers and crew dead and straining the trust the citizens of that new destination had in the airline.
	www.ipedia.com /eastern_airlines.html (875 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eastern Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European language), spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic).
		The Eastern district (東區) is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong.
		The Eastern Shore of Virginia is on the Atlantic Coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
	aynurkece.info /browse.php?title=E/EA/EAS (10599 words)

	USATODAY.com - Check your travel superstitions, or carry them on? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The number seven was not a lucky number for passengers aboard Korean Airlines flight 007 which was shot down by a Russian fighter pilot in 1983 after it accidentally strayed into Russian airspace.
		Sadly, flights 77 and 11 were also unlucky for the passengers onboard the hijacked American Airlines flights on 9/11.
		When I worked in the airline industry I was told travel actually dropped off on Friday the 13th, and even on the 13th of any month, but no one would substantiate that claim.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/columnist/grossman/2005-10-31-grossman_x.htm (1157 words)

	Airline Safety, Pilot Error, Terrorism, Airline Crashes, Accidents, CRM, CLR, CFIT, WTC, Pentagon, 9-11
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 has come to be known as the "classic CFIT" case study.
		This flight, from New York to Miami, was routine and uneventful until arriving in the Miami vicinity.
		Contributing to the accident was the flight crew's failure to use an airline operational control dispatch system to assist them during the international flight into a high-density airport in poor weather.
	www.airlinesafety.com /editorials/HumanErrorVsTerrorism.htm (5780 words)

	The Phantoms of Flight 401
		Early in December 1972, a stewardess with Eastern Airlines told some of her colleagues of a premonition, in which she had seen a Lockheed Tri-Star on approach to Miami International Airport; she saw the port wing crumple as the aircraft hit the ground, and heard the despairing cries of the injured.
		A woman found herself sitting next to an Eastern Airlines flight officer who looked pale and ill, but would not speak; she called a stewardess but, before the eyes of several people, the man disappeared.
		On another flight, from New York to Mexico City, one of the plane's engines malfunctioned, and it had to return to the runway and was taken out of service.
	www.cprs.info /ghoststories/phantoms_of_flight_401.htm (588 words)

	Ghosts Of Flight 401 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Aside from his appearance to a pre-flight engineer who he appeared to have been assisting, there is testimony from a flight attendant who observed a man in a flight engineer's uniform, whom she later recognized as Repo, fixing a galley oven.
		A female passenger found herself sitting next to an Eastern Airlines flight officer who looked pale and ill, but would not speak; she called a stewardess but before the eyes of several people, the man disappeared.
		The woman was later shown photographs of Eastern Airlines engineers and she identified the man as Repo.
	www.webspawner.com /users/everlastinggospel/ghostsofflight4.html (971 words)

	Thirty Thousand Feet - Aviation Incidents and Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 Dedicated to the memory of the Emery Worldwide Airlines flight 17 aircrew and the events surrounding the crash on February 16, 2000, in Sacramento, California.
	www.thirtythousandfeet.com /incident.htm (2908 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control (1997)
		During the in-flight emergency, the flight crew worked effectively with controllers to select an alternate airport and to mobilize emergency units prior to the attempted landing.
		In this emergency, there was appropriate exchange of information both within the flight deck and between the pilots and the air traffic controllers, and this was combined with sensitivity to workload issues and emotional support needs (Predmore, 1991).
		The flight crew attributed their successful management of the emergency to formal training in interpersonal human factors known as crew resource management.
	www.nap.edu /openbook.php?record_id=5493&page=138 (526 words)

	Newsletter for July 20-26, '98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most of the sightings are reported by reliable sources...pilots, flight officers, even a vice-president of Eastern Airlines, who claimed he spoke with a captain he assumed was in charge of the flight, before recognising him as the deceased Bob Loft.
		Another woman asked a flight attendant about the quiet, unresponsive man in the seat next to her, who appeared in full view of the woman, the flight attendant and many other passengers before vanishing, leaving the poor woman hysterical.
		These ghosts, however, are always helping out on the flights, they even warned of a fire on one airplane, which later encountered engine troubles which could've led to a fire.
	members.aol.com /a1582/july20.html (406 words)

	Mysterious Reality - Flight 401
		In December of 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into a Florida swamp killing 99 of 176 passengers.
		The strange tales of the ghostly airmen of Flight of 401 circulated in the airline community, and an account of the paranormal goings-on even appeared in a 1974 US Flight Safety Foundation's newsletter.
		It was said that flight log books which had recorded sightings of the apparitions had actually been withdrawn and that crew members who had encountered the ghosts had been threatened with a visit to the airline company's psychiatrist.
	www.mysteriousreality.com /Ghosts/ghost_encounters_flight401.asp (255 words)

	Eastern Airlines Flight 401 -- The Ghosts of . . .
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 -- The Ghosts of.
		It was in that Flight 401 Forum this became clear when it began to fill up with messages regarding everything from sightings to speculation to those who are seeking to find a Survivors page.
		I just finished reading the flight log for flight 401 and I found it to be interesting.
	www.123gold.com /flight401 (1309 words)

	Eastern Airlines Flight 401: Correspondence Files
		It explained the association between the airline parts and the subsequent haunting's that took place amongst the Eastern fleet.
		Recently I bought it's video also, last time I was in the US It's called "The crash of flight 401" which is very old but very accurate with all the facts that are reported on the book.
		And even if my airline is considered to be the second safest airline in the world (we just had one fatal accident) I just want to be as much prepared as I can, because the life's of my passengers depend on me and I can't Planck.
	www.123gold.com /flight401/letters1.htm (1172 words)

	Amazon.com: Crash of Flight 401 (1978) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When I told to my ex-husband that my son had found an infrared oven in the warehouse and asked if he could he bring it home for me; I was told the incredulous story of Flight 401 and the haunting of the newer plane that utilized the scavenged oven from Flight 401.
		Although, then CEO of Eastern, Frank Borman, wanted everyone to belive the ghost stories were Crp and a bunch of lies; the truth is that the stories of the two dead pilots from Flight* 401 haunting the new plane were completely true.
		Eventually, (after several sightings of the pilot and co-pilot from flight 401 on the newer plane)the Foster infrared oven was pulled off the plane when three flight attendants saw the ghostly pilot in the oven while they were trying to serve a meal to passengers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301218108?v=glance (1304 words)

	Ghosts of Flight 401 - near-death experiences and apparitions
		Perhaps the most extraordinary and credible research into the ghost phenomenon ever documented is the so-called "Ghosts of Flight 401." On December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp.
		The pilot, Bob Loft (on the left), and flight engineer Don Repo (on the right), were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash.
		The website Flight 401 – The Black Box Story provides an account of the crash as told using material from the Black Box.
	www.near-death.com /ghosts.html (1090 words)

	South Florida CEO
		The 1972 Eastern crash was the first in a string of airline disasters whose victims’ families the firm has represented.
		District judge King recalls, during one of the hearings, Podhurst suggesting to state and federal judges on the case that the lawsuits be combined into one class-action suit and that the judges jointly listen to all of the discovery presented during the hearings.
		Since the Eastern case, Podhurst Orseck has taken on various airplane-related cases, including the November 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens, N.Y., and the Air France Concorde disaster just outside Paris in 2000.
	www.southfloridaceo.com /article150.html (3875 words)

	Aviation Safety, By Tim Krell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flight engineer Donald Repo and Technical Specialist Angelo Donadeo were in the "hell hole," a small compartment accessed by a trap-door in the floor of the cockpit.
		An Eastern Airlines L-1011 was en route from Miami to Nassau.
		You'll also be happy to know that, according to a passenger on board the ill-fated flight, "The crew was not informed 100% of the procedure,"(5) The 32 year-old salesman from Longwood said he saw the flight attendants thumbing through a manual to find out how to open the emergency doors.
	www.npl.com /~tkrell/writings/aviation/aviation.html (3799 words)

	Crash of Flight 401 - The blackbox story - Useful for aircraft cockpit crew resource management (& anesthesia crisis)
		On the night of December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 took off from New York and headed towards Miami, Florida.
		This website will take you through the flight made by Eastern Airlines Flight 401 using a transcript of the "fl box" recording of pilot conversations minutes prior to the crash.
		Though the crash of Flight 401 occurred over thirty years ago, it is still remembered as a classic case where appropriate resource management could have prevented disaster.
	www.freshgasflow.com /flight401.htm (319 words)

	Eastern Airlines Ghost
		I once was employed by Eastern Airlines as a Flight Engineer and have always wondered about the story of the "Ghost".
		I crewed with one Captain that at the time of the crash of 401, was a copilot on the L1011 and had dated one of the surviving flight attendants of the crash.
		A few years later, I was reading the book, The Ghost of Flight 401, and I came to the part when Eastern management were trying to deal with the grief-stricken families at MIA.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/358/20026 (1018 words)

	Historical Accounts Of Ghosts
		Flight 401: In 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades killing 100 passengers, as well as captain Bob Loft, flight engineer Dan Repo, and other crewmembers.
		In an effort to save costs, Eastern recovered the plane, a L-1011 jumbo jet, and salvaged the parts to repair other L-1011’s in the airline’s fleet.
		Soon after the salvage plan was put into motion, reports began to filter in stating the ghosts of Loft, Repo, and other dead crew had been seen on planes which had received parts salvaged from Flight 401.
	surbrook.devermore.net /herosource/ghosts.html (4684 words)

	The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The true story of an Eastern Airlines L-1011 which crashed in the Everglades while making a long approach on Miami International Airport.
		It is surmised the pilot while distracted because of nose gear warning, inadvertently disengaged the auto pilot resulting in the plane crashing.
		Sightings of the dead crew were reported over the next several years by several dozen Eastern employees, who had known them.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0077610 (250 words)

	flight 77 :: airfare site latest news and information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard.
		We are Not saying, that was was NO plane, Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.
		A hijacker who boarded Flight 77 is shown being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny at Dulles airport.
	www.myhotblogs.com /airfare/flight-77.html (166 words)

	All About Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		the mechanics of flight by such objects as airplanes, balloons, and kites.
		Flight Motion Study," which was the first student experiment ever to fly
		Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in 1972, including ghostly encounters with the
	www.dekalb.k12.ga.us /~shamrock/reading/allaboutflight.html (1102 words)

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