You may not republish the article in its entirety. He had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Macallum. Al DeSa April 17, 2007, 10:46 am Back to index. Although Eastern Airlines themselves refused to publicly speak of them, many paranormal investigators managed to speak to their employees. All three of them now saw Repos face in the oven door. Therefore, the crash was due to the pilot-error. Failed to report flower. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Verify and try again. Robert Bain Loft in England & Wales, Death Index, 1837-2005. Search above to list available cemeteries. Robert attended the University of Colorado Boulder where he became a member of the Pershing Rifle Team. The investigators were particularly fascinated by the various accounts of hauntings within planes that contained pieces of Flight 401. Whether Turpin used the grounds to conduct his robberies over 250 years before the conception of air travel is unknown. 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. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Robert A.Loft. The crew of Flight 401, taken aboard Flight 26 while on the ground in Miami earlier the day of the crash. He accompanied 3 survivors on the helicopter to the hospital including a flight attendant and passenger who lost her baby in the crash. 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. Memorial ID. The story was that parts of Flight 401 were salvaged after the crash investigation and . [5]:3 This was later discovered to be due to a burned-out light bulb. Immediate Family: Son of Joseph Frost. Based on Fuller's book, it focused on the ghost sightings surrounding the aftermath. One account from a flight attendant working for Virgin Atlantic is particularly hair-raising. Coincidentally or not, the entire galley area where the flight attendants saw Repos face was made from materials recovered from the downed Flight 401. Robert Loft, 55; First Officer Albert Stockstill, 39, and Second Officer Donald Repo, 51, all of Miami-Dade. The flight was routine until 23:32 when the plane began its approach into Miami International Airport. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. One anonymous captain claimed to have seen Repo before a flight he was about to pilot. Although they were much less, so did sightings of Bob Loft. Stockstill: We did something to the altitude. Captain Robert Loft and Second Officer Donald Repo survived the crash, briefly. Captain Robert Loft and Second Officer Donald Repo survived the crash, shortly. For months, hunters, poachers, and wildlife enthusiasts started reporting strange unearthly sights and encounters around the crash site. Cockpit area microphone (CAM): [Sound of click], CAM: [Sound of six beeps similar to radio altimeter increasing in rate]. Make sure that the file is a photo. After the aircraft had descended 250 feet (76m) from the selected altitude of 2,000 feet (610m), a C-chord sounded from the rear speaker. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 departed New York's JFK airport at 9:20 in the evening enroute to Miami International Airport. In early 1973, the captain of an Eastern flight from Newark to Miami was told that there was a passenger in first class not listed on the flight manifest, attired in an Eastern Airlines captain . The crew didnt react. [4], Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a regularly scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, to Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. The area, an inhospitable and incredibly inaccessible place, proved to be a logistical nightmare for rescue workers. Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Jocelyne LeBlanc works full time as a writer and is also an author with two books currently published. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. [23], According to Robert J. Serling's 1980 book From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines, the claim that wreckage from Flight 401 was installed and later removed from other Eastern aircraft was false, and no Eastern employees had ever claimed to have seen or believed in the alleged ghost sightings. 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. The crash was documented in Rob and Sarah Elder's 1977 book Crash. Of the 176 people on board, 101 lost their lives in the tragedy. Thanks for your help! . Cleveland acquired 150 acres near the Lewis Fork in what is today known as the Purlear Community by 1778. However, they appeared to be fixing the oven. New York 20th March 1777. Many believe they have seen his ghost, however, and that of his black horse, near the main terminal. [10], Most of the dead were passengers in the aircraft's midsection. Captain Robert F. Hight, Jr. is the information warfare chair and senior intelligence officer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Our motto always is, "you make up your own mind". One noteworthy instance was when an Eastern Airlines vice president boarded the N318EA, one of the planes that used parts of the Lockheed L1011 Tristar. It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Quick Facts ; Screenshots ; Videos ; Comments. [12][13] The training is designed to make problem solving in a cockpit much more efficient, thus causing less distraction for the crew. Also known as Robert Laudat, Robert Loft. Stockstill died instantly in the impact as the plane crashed into the swampy Florida Everglades. The flight was under the command of Captain Robert Loft, 55, a veteran Eastern Airline plot. Captain Robert Arnott, the master of the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, who has died aged 92, was known to the thousands of passengers who sailed with him in the heyday of passenger shipping . Under the command of Captain Robert Albin Loft, an expert navigator rated 50th in seniority at Eastern. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?". [9] All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend. In the cockpit: Capt. The other flight crew members were First Officer John Stockhill, a flight engineer, and Donald Luis Repo, an aircraft mechanic, and flight engineer. chime located under the engineers workstation the same engineer that was down below checking the status of the wheels. Marquis suffered multiple burns to his face, arms, and legs but valiantly continued seesawing people in and out of the crash site that night and the next day. Learn more about merges. Captain Hight is a 1994 graduate of Boston . All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Perhaps they carried with them a sense of guilt at missing the altitude drop? Accueil; Prsentation; Dpollution; Nos vhicules; Nos pices A similar situation appeared in the Thai film Dark Flight, directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, produced in 2012. Fuller describes anecdotes of strange happenings aboard other Eastern aircraft. It is featured in season1, episode3, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Human Error" (2010). 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. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. If you don't like what you read you can unsubscribe at any time. Iain Russell tells his story. Services were Nov. 30, with inurnment at Fort Logan National Cemetery. [6]:107109, Robert "Bud" Marquis (19292008),[7] an airboat pilot, was out frog gigging with Ray Dickinsin (19291988) when they witnessed the crash. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Blood and Blood-Drinking: Paranormal Creatures and (Alleged) Real Vampires, When Ghosts Get Hungry: That's When Things Get Dangerous. For example, one unnamed flight engineer would tell how he almost screamed when, while performing the standard pre-flight checks Don Repo appeared in front of him stating he had already done the checks for him. Oops, something didn't work. The celebrated explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) also famously took part in the race to claim the South Pole in 1911, but sadly failed in his mission and died on his return journey. Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed. Spooky tales unfolding high above us in planes shuffling people from one destination on the planet to another are, in certain circles, more common than we might think. The pilots removed the light assembly and an engineer was sent down below to confirm via a small porthole if the landing gear had deployed or not. Are you looking for something? By the time the person walked away, Don had also disappeared and the older woman was visible in her seat again. Fortunately, it managed to make an emergency landing. On April 9th 2022, American Airlines Pilot Captain Robert Snow suffered a cardiac arrest minutes after landing flight AAL 1067fn at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Pieces of Flight 401s wreckage can also be found in Ed and Lorraine Warrens Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut. 1 engine and the port main undercarriage. She has a fascination with the paranormal and ghost stories, especially those that included haunted houses. [5]:5. [15][18] The reported hauntings were said to be seen only on the planes that used the spare parts. Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Sightings of the pilots on Eastern Airlines planes began in the immediate months following the accident. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 Don Repo and Bob Loft. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. There he was able to land in a swampy patch of grass and coordinate rescue efforts. 1 (port) engine, and fragments from the port wing itself and the port tailplane. The Captain, along with one of 2 flight crew members, two of 10 flight attendants and . And the paranormal encounter occurred over the Florida . This was, according to Singleton, "sometime after Columbus but before all the new scientific technology came about." The book explained the science of simple navigation with simple and easy instructions, real-life exercises, detailed diagrams, and straightforward . of the men simply moved on from our realm of existence after so long? Captain Robert 'Bob' Loft believed that it was just a faulty light bulb. Mysterious unknown script By Newton Stone, Recent skeletal DNA analysis proves German, Danish & Dutch origins of the English people. Repo was evacuated to a hospital, but later died from his injuries. He had logged 280 hours in the L-1011. Officer Repo died the next day at the hospital. This is the tragic tale of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 and the madness it left in its wake. Captain Robert Long was born on 3 November 1590, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. This individual was sitting in a window seat with nobody else in the next seat or in front of this person. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. It was a gradual descent, little by little the craft lost a couple of meters it was so gradual that not even the well-seasoned Captain noticed anything hinky until all hell broke loose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#In_popular_culture, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PKlVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5371%2C7839479, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nToTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7vcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6073%2C1518539, : [Sound of six beeps similar to radio altimeter increasing in rate]. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter to receive the latest articles directly in your inbox. Comment by dasbaum PvP vendors are currently not selling Season 3 & 4 elite gear (in EU only though, US seems to work). The circumstances that surrounded this disaster centre on the leadership qualities of Captain Robert Albin 'Bob' Loft, 55, who was in charge of the aircraft. Archaeologists found more than a hundred mysterious giant figures in the Nazca desert, Neanderthals: the oldest art in the world wasnt made by humans, The mysterious Voynich Manuscript: What you need to know, Secrets of the Pharaohs: Archaeologists unearth stunning royal tomb in Luxor, Egypt. There was a problem getting your location. It was the Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar model which, on December 29, 1972, left New Yorks John F. Kennedy airport and crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 fatalities. The television film The Ghost of Flight 401, which aired on NBC in February 1978, offers a fictionalized depiction of the crash and alleged ghost sightings. Add to your scrapbook. We do not aim to prove nordisprove any of the theories, cases, or reports. Specters peered from the gloom into the awestruck eyes of hunters. Related To Victoria Loft, Joan Loft, John Loft, Rebecca Loft. 75 survived the crash67 of the 163 passengers and eight of the 10 flight attendants. We can only imagine how many more accounts might be on record if not for the eventual ban by Eastern Airlines on any of their employees speaking publicly of their sightings. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Three of the 4 cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; there were 75 survivors. The co . This person greeted the male (in his late 40s or early 50s) who was wearing a pilots uniform and a captains hat that read Eastern Air Lines. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Perhaps the spirits (energies?) [5]:13. On one particular occasion, on Flight Tri-Star 138, while performing her normal duties, she could clearly see the face of Repo in the oven door in the planes kitchen. He served as cornet, quartermaster, and lieutenant in the Continental Dragoons. 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