You want me to test the lights or not? he asked. Cincuenta segundos despus de alcanzar la altitud asignada, el Capitn Loft le orden al Primer Oficial Stockstill que activara el piloto automtico. The scene they discovered was hellish beyond all imagination. An inspection of the wreckage revealed that the two bulbs in the nose gear light had burnt out and the gear was down and locked the whole time, but the pilots could not have known this without additional verification. Lilly and Ron had just married on December 9th, and after a brief honeymoon in Disney World, they had flown to New York to spend Christmas with Ron's parents. To that end, he had brought computer print outs on his trip to Miami. [7] De la cabina de mando, solo el ingeniero de vuelo Repo sobrevivi al accidente inicial, junto con el oficial tcnico Donadeo, que se encontraba debajo de la cabina con Repo al momento del impacto. MU4277 Flight Tracker - Track the real-time flight status of China Eastern Airlines MU 4277 live using the FlightStats Global Flight Tracker. El vuelo fue rutinario hasta las 11:32p.m., cuando comenz a acercarse al Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami. Among the general public, Eastern Air Lines flight 401 is best known not for its safety lessons, but for an alleged haunting which became one of the most widely shared urban legends to emerge from the aviation industry. Virtual Globetrotting Home Maps Collections Blog Games Forums To hell with it, to hell with this, he said. Jerry wore a gold Star of David his mother had bought him a few weeks earlier while in Israel. On the day of the crash, Flight 401 was operated using a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar ( registration N310EA), which had been delivered to the airline on August 18, 1972. That-a boy! said Captain Loft. Waves of fuel washed through the cabin, followed by the searing heat of flames. Mercy and I have carried our 101 passengers and fellow crew members in our hearts for 50 years and will continue to do so until we meet them again. The flight was entirely routine, except in first class, where a passenger proposed to his girlfriend (she said yes). Two-month-old Christina slept in her mother's arms wearing a pink dress. In a small box tucked under her seat was her constant companion, her white poodle, Tina. She had brought a camera to preserve the memories of the good times the crew had had with each other. El vuelo 232 de United Airlines es uno de los ejemplos ms conocidos de una CRM bien aplicada.[3]. Therefore, his vague question asking if everything was alright already went above and beyond the call of duty, and Captain Lofts response so completely put him at ease that he never looked at flight 401s altitude again. Surely it was all just a misunderstanding. El Flight Data Recorder permiti recuperar la siguiente conversacin: La aeronave se estrell en los Everglades, al noreste de Miami, en las cercanas del aeropuerto. From muscles eaten with your fingers to oysters that require a boat ride to enjoy, we've had our share of some great meals. [11] Las visiones de los "espritus" de Don Repo y Bob Loft circularon entre el personal de Eastern Air Lines hasta tal punto que los gerentes de la aerolnea les advirtieron a sus empleados que podran ser despedidos si los sorprendan relatando historias de fantasmas. It has truly been an honor for us to bring this permanent Eastern 401 Memorial Monument to reality. Munich, DE . Finally at 9:20 p.m., word came from the tower that it was Flight 401's turn to take off. Especially during the holidays, night coaches to Miami were usually filled up. While making preparations to land, the crew are distracted b. Eastern Air Lines flight 401 was in fact the first fatal crash of a wide body airliner, and many speculated at the time that so many people survived because the size of the plane shielded them from the impact. Once again, the nose gear locked light failed to come on. If at the moment of the nose gear light failure Loft had said, Bert, you fly the plane; Don, you go check the indicator; and Ill work the radio and try to fix the light, then the crash almost certainly would not have happened. Thus it was possible that the switching to CWS in channel A did not occur in channel B thus depriving the first officer of any indication the mode had changed (Channel A provides the captain's instruments with data, while channel B provides the first officer's). A chime sounded at the flight engineers station to indicate that the plane had descended more than 250 feet below the selected altitude of 2,000 feet. At the crash site, Bud Marquis saw the helicopter approaching, but it seemed lost, looking in the wrong part of the swamp. As the pilots focused on the problem with the bulb, no one noticed that an entirely new problem had already begun to develop. The undertaking of getting the memorial monument done in 11 months was very time consuming but my sister told me to do it as she knew about my promise and how important it was to me! 2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The aircraft involved in the plane crash. Analyzer of plane crashes and author of upcoming book (eventually). Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. You gotta turn it one quarter turn to the left, said Loft. This type of analysis would be expected today, but was so new in 1972 that it made waves throughout the industry despite occupying little more than a page in the final report. Los pilotos manipularon el indicador de la posicin del tren de aterrizaje pero no consiguieron que la luz funcionara. All would be dead in a few hours. Operated by Air France 1123. After the crash of flight 401 into the Florida everglades, many witnesses on Eastern Airlines flights reported seeing apparitions of flight officers. At around this time, Stockstill observed that they were a little bit too fast and made a slight reduction in power. Not shown, Sharon Transue (she was taking the photo). According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. They laughed and drank a champagne cocktail. While the plane was on the ground at JFK, the tail skid accumulator was serviced and the oxygen bottle replaced. La Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte clasific las heridas de dos pasajeros como "no fatales" dado que sus fallecimientos tuvieron lugar ms de siete das despus del accidente, por lo que el recuento final en el informe del accidente fue de noventa y nueve vctimas fatales.[9]. Were up to two thousand, said Stockstill. In command of flight 401 that night were three pilots: Captain Robert Loft, First Officer Albert Stockstill, and Flight Engineer Donald Repo. And now, just shortly before 9 p.m., the first officer, Albert John Stockstill, slid into the co-pilot seat on the right side of the flight deck. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. Un cuarto integrante, el tcnico oficial de Eastern Angelo Donadeo (quien estaba regresando a Miami tras un encargo en Nueva York) acompa a la tripulacin durante el vuelo. Later, investigators would also cite the design of the L-1011s passenger seats, which were much stronger than called for by regulations. Arrived. This week, we talk about the meals we would jump on a plane to eat right now. MIAMI Thursday marks 50 years since Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades. You better do that.. Rose Kashman, 57, of New York, sporting a mink coat. [6], En total, 77 personas sobrevivieron al accidente: 69 de los 163 pasajeros y ocho de las diez auxiliares de vuelo, con 99 muertos durante el choque. [4] Stockstill falleci en el impacto, mientras que el Capitn Loft muri entre los restos del cockpit antes de poder ser transportado a un hospital. Only now did Loft find time to respond to the instructions from Air Traffic Control. While attempting to confirm that the gear was down, the flight crew did not realize that the autopilot had been inadvertently turned off and the plane was gradually losing altitude, eventually crashing into the Everglades. Ill talk to em, said Loft. [4] Las lesiones ms comunes fueron fracturas de costillas, columnas vertebrales, pelvis y extremidades inferiores. Durante los siguientes setenta segundos el avin perdi solo 76 metros, pero fue suficiente para que sonara la alarma de advertencia de altitud, ubicada debajo de la estacin de trabajo del ingeniero. Mercy and I want to thank you all so very much for your contributions and participation to establish the permanent Eastern 401 Memorial Monument at Miami Springs!!!! December 29, 2022 - 50 years to the day of the crash of 401. A native of Louisiana who now lived in Miami, Stockstill had even more flying time in the new L-1011 than Loft. "Id rather sit here anyway," she said. You got it sideways, then.. El comandante del vuelo era el Capitn Robert Loft, de 55 aos de edad, un piloto veterano de Eastern, acompaado por el Primer Oficial Albert Stockstill, de 39 aos y por el Segundo Oficial (ingeniero aeronutico) Donald Repo, de 51. En los siguientes cincuenta segundos, el avin qued a la mitad de su altitud asignada. Others found themselves still strapped into their seats, upright and attached to the cabin floor, but with the walls and roof ripped away around them. Contact me via @Admiral_Cloudberg on Reddit or by email at kylanddempsey@gmail.com. The other pilots were not inexperienced, but none could hold a candle to Loft, who had nearly 30,000 flying hours. She initially balked at the idea, but Jerry used one of her own arguments to convince her. It found the preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments. The last three wishes of Alexander the Great. Eastern 401, Ive lost you on the radar there, your transponder, he continued. Por sus esfuerzos, recibi el Premio Humanitario otorgado por la Alianza/Fundacin Nacional de los Desastres Areos de los Estados Unidos y el Premio Alumitec por "Hroe de hidrodeslizador" por la Asociacin Estadounidense de Bsqueda y Rescate en Hidrodeslizador. The slight forward pressure on the stick would have caused the aircraft to enter a slow descent, maintained by the CWS system. The senior flight attendant on flight 401 wore blue shorts with the brown boots. Los investigadores consideraron que esto se debi a que los pilotos estaban concentrados en la luz del tren de aterrizaje que no funcionaba, y a que el ingeniero de vuelo no se encontraba en su asiento al momento de la advertencia, y por lo tanto no pudo haberla odo. _________________________________________________________________. The flight, which departed from JFK International . The plane was a new Lockheed L-1011, pride of the Eastern fleet. As the plane began to turn, the lights of the city disappeared, replaced by the featureless void of the swamp. In order to allow the pilots to quickly take control from the autopilot in an emergency, each of these components could be selectively disabled by making a sufficiently forceful input in its respective plane of motion using the control column. "This is going to be our last trip together," a black-haired stewardess, Mercedes Ruiz, told the others. Aircraft 310 was one of a dozen L-1011s Lockheed had delivered to Eastern Airlines that year, and it was one of the best of the bunch. Large altitude deviations were sometimes displayed for up to three sweeps of the radar before returning to normal. En 1978 se crearon dos pelculas para televisin basadas en el accidente: Crash of Flight 401, emitida en octubre y basada en el libro de los Elder, dramatiz el accidente, los rescates y la investigacin de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte; por su parte, The Ghost of Flight 401, emitida en febrero, se bas en el libro de Fuller y se centra ms en las apariciones de fantasmas posteriores a la tragedia. While the fleet was being built by the Lockheed-California Company, Rolls Royce, the manufacturer of the engines, faltered under the weight of the development costs and went bankrupt. CDG. He had purchased a non-smoking ticket, but while on board found a seat in the last row reserved for smokers. [8] El pantano absorbi gran parte de la energa del impacto, disminuyendo el efecto sobre el avin. She explained that she would be happy to help any passengers with re-ticketing for return trips. However, on this night, air traffic control was able to release some airspace east of Jacksonville, vectoring all the MIA area flights (which includes FLL and PBI) so they wound up west of "Barracuda," an invisible navigation checkpoint over the ocean. This wont come out Bob, Stockstill complained. The weather was perfect - a sunny day with a strong breeze as we all gathered 1/2 mile from the runway at Miami International Airport! As a result, while the flight crew was distracted with the indicator problem, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York to Miami. To their right were more empty seats. A few seconds later, Lofts frustration boiled over. As Repo opened up the hatch and disappeared into the hellhole, Loft went on the radio and said, Eastern 401, Ill go ah, out west just a little further if we can here and, ah, see if we can get this light to come on here., Alright, we got you headed westbound there now, Eastern 401.. The captain, in his role as commander, is expected to delegate tasks to the other crewmembers to ensure that everyone has a clearly defined role and that all necessary duties are accounted for. "Dear Mr. Higginbottom: This is my first time on an L-1011, and I love the trip. Somewhere over Wilmington, Lilly went to the bathroom at the rear of the plane. El accidente fue causado por un fallo de la tripulacin de vuelo, cuyos miembros no se percataron de que el piloto automtico haba sido desactivado mientras intentaban solucionar un problema con el indicador del tren de aterrizaje delantero. [4] Angelo Donadeo, el nico sobreviviente de los cuatro ocupantes de la cabina, finalmente se recuper de sus heridas y falleci el 4 de octubre de 2004. His goal in life, he would say later, was "to be successful financially and live a nice, easy, comfortable life." By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies. We just saw a big explosion, looks like it was out west. He settled in for the journey, digging into his paperback of the Exorcist. See if your flight has been delayed or cancelled and track the live position on a map. For me, I am returning to being there 100% for my sister as she fights bone marrow cancer (she has had 57 transfusions!). It wont come out, no way, said Stockstill. But evidently some people had made last minute plans and even with one hundred and sixty passengers on board, when the doors closed, sixty-eight empty seats remained. The systems first entered service in 1977 and were installed at major airports across the United States by the end of the 1980s. Eastern 401 heavy, roger, said the controller, pull up, climb straight ahead to two thousand, go back to approach control [on] 128.6. The plan was for flight 401 to enter a holding pattern west of the airport at 2,000 feet, where it wouldnt interfere with other planes on approach. PROMISE KEPT..MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! The recommendation to develop aids for controllers to detect when planes are too low eventually led to the development of the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning system, or MSAW, a set of equipment which sounds an alarm in the control tower if a plane descends below the minimum safe altitude. Yeah, wheel well lights always on if the gears down, said Repo. Were still at two thousand, right? said Stockstill. Turning back to his crew, he added, Put the autopilot on here.. We can tell if that son of a bitch is down by looking at our indices, said Loft. Loft, a tall and trim 55 year old had been flying for Eastern Airlines since the days of Eddie Rickenbacker. A fundamentalist Christian airline pilot had even performed an exorcism on a L-1011 jet with the most ghost sightings. Repo pudo llegar al hospital, pero pereci ms tarde debido a sus heridas. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. I do business with them, they take sixty days to pay their bills!. After descending 250 feet from the selected altitude of 2000 feet a C-chord sounded from the rear speaker. Burt bought the tickets anyway. Maintenance had been regular and frequent, with the current flight log noting only minor problems; on Christmas Eve, for example, the first officer's Mach meter was found to read .006 too low and was replaced. To see the happiness (and tears) on their faces as they saw their loved one's name on the memorial monument brought joy to our hearts! "I always knew retailing was what I wanted. Lilly's sister, Kathy, would later explain that Ron and Lilly originally selected another flight but later changed it to flight 401. I dont know what it means, but I thought you should know., Out in the Everglades, the survivors of flight 401 awoke amid a surreal scene of random devastation. 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. The flight was to be in the capable hands of captain Robert Albin Loft. The only overt warning the C-chord chime emitted from the flight engineers station when the plane left 2,000 feet was easy to miss when their attention was focused elsewhere, especially since the flight engineer wasnt in the cockpit. On 21 January 1972, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 registered as TC-JAC operated by Turkish Airlines crashed on approach while trying to make an emergency landing at Adana Airport.The aircraft was en-route from Kandara Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Ankara Esenboa Airport with a stopover at Damascus Airport with only five crew members on board after carrying passengers to Hajj the day before. She managed a Manhattan art gallery. Laying on the coat rack, Patty George. In fact, the story seems to have originated in a 1973 Flight Safety Foundation article about an engine failure on another Eastern Air Lines plane, which jokingly described the pilot [thinking] he saw the ghost of Don Repo. Someone took this attempt at humor too seriously, and the story spread from there, often being taken as canon, even though no one saw a ghost until after the story was published, nor was there any evidence that equipment from flight 401 was actually salvaged. Ethel Jackson, 64, a housekeeper from Liberty City, brought her white uniform in a carry-on bag. Despus de bajar el tren de aterrizaje, el Primer Oficial Stockstill not que el indicador de que este estaba bajo, una luz verde que deba encenderse cuando el tren estuviese asegurado correctamente, no estaba activa. Joseph Popson was a tired but happy soon-to-be PhD in English, returning to Florida after attending the Modern Language Association conference in New York. On flight 401, an unexpected factor made it seem even larger than it was. Loft switched on the wheel well lights and said, Now try it. Repo shuffled his way back down the ladder into the hellhole, and Donadeo followed him down to render assistance. En 2007 se le otorg una placa honorfica. Although it was inconvenient, there was one way to confirm the position of the gear without relying on the light bulb. In this mode once the pilot releases pressure on the yoke (control column) the autopilot will maintain the pitch attitude selected by the pilot until he moves the yoke again. The manifest listed nine passengers in the forward cabin and one hundred and forty-four aft; a total of 153 in all. Tambin se descubri que el Capitn Loft tena un tumor cerebral que no haba sido detectado y que ste podra haberle afectado la visin, aunque los mdicos descartaron el tumor como provocador del accidente.[1]. In this mode once the pilot releases pressure on the yoke (control column) the autopilot will maintain the pitch attitude . "Who's at the Controls?" After all, if they landed without knowing the nose gear position and the gear collapsed, how would that look in the subsequent safety report? Therefore, when Captain Loft bumped the control column and accidentally disengaged the altitude hold function, the autopilot stopped holding the plane at 2,000 feet and ceded full command of altitude and descent rate to the pilots. Even though the NTSB made no recommendations in this area, and no sweeping FAA initiatives explicitly cited Eastern 401, the crash undoubtedly led to the recognition that change was needed, a critical progenitor of progress which is often overshadowed by the catalysts of its eventual implementation. In reality, the soft surface into which they crashed likely played a larger role in ensuring a high survival rate despite the almost total destruction of the airframe. It was ironic that the flight had more than five dozen empty seats, for when they booked, they were told the only seats available were in first class. The NTSB investigation discovered that the autopilot had been inadvertently switched from altitude hold to CWS (Control Wheel Steering) mode in pitch. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. She was twenty seven years old. The accident in a nutshell Los controladores le dieron permiso para suspender el descenso, por lo que el avin se elev a 610 m y luego vol hacia Occidente, sobre la oscura zona de los Everglades. The pilot initially did not believe he was headed to a real emergency: after all, how could an advanced L-1011 crash on flat terrain on a perfectly clear night? La investigacin de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte permiti descubrir que el piloto automtico haba cambiado la altitud sin que la tripulacin lo notara. [5] Falleci el 21 de noviembre de 2008, debido a complicaciones por unas heridas causadas por una cada un mes antes. Source: AP, The flight crew of Eastern Air Lines 401 taken prior to the crash. The crash killed 101 people, destroyed a state-of-the-art airliner, and baffled the airline industry. I dont see it, he said. The crew made just two small entries on log sheet 427443: the tail skid light came on several times during the trip, and the pressure was low in the crews portable oxygen bottle. Over the following month, two more passengers also succumbed as many of the survivors fought deadly gas gangrene infections caused by bacteria in the swamp water. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities. After many years, the EAL flight 401 is now a reality thanks to the relentless efforts of flight. On time. However, the indicator light failed to show that the landing gear was locked down. With less power and nothing to counteract it, flight 401 entered a shallow descent. ParaPedia | Flight 401 - Survivors and those who were lost | PANICd.com | Paranormal Database Flight 401 - Survivors and those who were lost Definition: A listing of those who survived and those who were lost. But when Loft attempted to lower the landing gear, there was an immediate problem: the light indicating that the nose gear was down and locked did not illuminate. This article is written without reference to and supersedes the original. As Stockstill entered the new heading into the autopilot, he happened to glance at his altimeter, and for the first time he noticed that something was wrong. Now push the switches just a forward. El mismo pantano salv varias vidas y bloque numerosas heridas de sobrevivientes, evitando que fallecieran desangrados. Leave the goddamn gear down till we find out what we got, Loft added. Lockheed had delivered it on August 18th, and Eastern put it into service on August 21st. The L-1011 was the first airliner capable of flying on autopilot from takeoff to touchdown; Lockheed even boasted that it could fly all the way across the United States without the pilot ever touching the control column. Investigation into the aircraft's autopilot showed that the force required to switch to CWS mode was different between the A and B channels (15 vs 20 pounds respectively). Initially, 79 people survived, as well as a dog, which was the first victim to arrive at Mercy Hospital in Hialeah. "Turning number two," the pilot said as he depressed the start switch. [1] Los efectos de este accidente en la industria aeronutica continan en la actualidad y derivaron en la creacin del Crew (o Cockpit) Resource Management (CRM),[2] una tcnica que requiere que las tripulaciones de vuelo dividan el trabajo en la cabina entre los tripulantes disponibles, para asegurarse de que alguien contine hacindose cargo de pilotar el avin cuando se tienen problemas. In April of 1972, Eastern Air Lines became the first carrier to take delivery of the brand new L-1011 Tristar, Lockheeds formidable answer to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. But despite his rescuers assurances to the contrary, Loft did indeed die of his injuries within minutes, joining First Officer Stockstill, who lay lifeless beside him. Despite the enormous quantities and that there was a error counting the passengers, the manifest was meticulously detailed. At 11:42 p.m. and 12 seconds, Eastern Air Lines flight 401 slammed into the watery surface of the Florida Everglades, plowing into the swamp at 365 kilometers per hour. Her name was Adrianne Hamilton, a slender, serious Texan who nineteen days earlier had begun her fifth year flying with Eastern. We are so very grateful to the City of Miami Springs for all they did to help make the memorial a reality. If you want to hold it for your children, fine.' . One of the flight engineer's duties is to get on board early, before the captain and first officer, and run through a series of checks. It was also discovered that Captain Loft had an undetected tumor in his brain, and this was later found to be in an area controlling vision, but this was not thought to have contributed to the accident. Catorce sobrevivientes sufrieron quemaduras de distintos grados. Some thirty seconds later, flight 401 arrived at 2,000 feet. This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crash site in Everglades, FL - Virtual Globetrotting Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades at 11:42 pm December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities (99 initial crash fatalities, two died. On flight 401, Captain Loft allowed events to develop organically without ensuring that someone maintained a holistic view of their situation. The lights flickered and went out, and the pitch-black cabin filled with a cacophony of rending metal as the violent impact tore the plane apart. And, ah, eastern 401, are you requesting the equipment? he asked. Thats all we care about. As captain, his was the final authority as to whether to proceed or abort the takeoff. What frequency did he want us on, Bert? Loft asked. Loft rested his hands on the thrust levers with all the assurance of a man who had flown for twenty-nine thousand hours. Por lo tanto, fue posible que se cambiase el modo automtico en el canal A sin que se evidenciase en el canal B, evitando que el Primer Oficial se percatara de la anomala. What a special day it was for all!! Repo turned on the fuel pump. Well, want to tell em well take it around and circle around and screw around?. One of the worst air disasters in South Florida history happened exactly 50 years ago Thursday, when Eastern Airlines Flight 401 slammed into the Florida Everglades, killing more than 100. The NTSB investigation discovered that the autopilot had been inadvertently switched from altitude hold to CWS (Control Wheel Steering) mode in pitch. She knew I didn't want to wear anything around my neck. All told, of the 176 people on board, 101 died and 75 survived. Repo was 51 years old and had been employed by Eastern Airlines for 25 years, just short of half of his lifetime. Outside, the OFF lights blinked out, warning the ground crew that the airplane was about to come to life. Technical officer Angelo Donadeo, who had until now been silently watching, finally chimed in. When the flight crew on Eastern Air Lines 401 noticed a possible issue with their aircraft, they immediately went into troubleshooting mode to ensure the problem could be fixed. This altitude alert, designed to warn the pilots of an inadvertent deviation from the selected altitude, went unnoticed by the fatigued and frustrated crew. El vuelo 401 de Eastern Air Lines, un Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar de cuatro meses (el duodcimo entregado a la empresa) [4] con 163 pasajeros y trece tripulantes a bordo, parti del Aeropuerto John F. Kennedy en Nueva York el viernes 29 de diciembre de 1972 a las 9:20 p.m., con destino al Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.El comandante del vuelo era el Capitn Robert Loft, de 55 aos de edad . Among the passengers, the very size of the L-1011 imposed anonymity. I got right into it out of school, and I was pretty successful and I got a nice salary." On 29 December 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 is on a flight to Miami International Airport. We did something to the altitude? he said, sounding confused. 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