Friday, July 8, 2011

Ghosts of Flight 401

On 29 December 1972, took off a plane N310EA subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, Eastern Airlines from New York City and on board 178 passengers, but did not appreciate this trip which is the 401 to be completed on the good, She fell to the plane and crashed near the hills of the Everglades, located in the state of Florida, USA .
After that, authorities rushed to the scene found a number of the passengers were still alive, survived, with 77 passengers in was 99 killed, and remained Captain Luft and his assistant Donri who soon died after being transferred to the hospital, and after a few weeks have been reported Views phantom of the two For a number of passengers dead.

Result of the investigationDiscover the investigation the National Transportation Safety Board NTSB that he was switching from the status of the autopilot controls to rise to the status of control of the steering wheel CWS unintentionally, in this new situation and when Yun Captain pressure on the steering wheel, the autopilot will maintain the height set by the Captain to move the steering wheel back the other, but investigators believe that the status of operation of automatic pilot has been changed several times in the time when the Captain is trying to pay attention to talk to the flight engineer who sits behind him from the right, led light pressure on the baton to slow the aircraft in a control system steering wheel manual CWS.
But the time was at night and the plane was flying over the hills of the Everglades and there was no ground lights or any other visual indicators that the plane actually slow down toward the landing in a swamp. It was also noted that Captain (Luft) was not at the time had noticed a swelling in the area of ​​the brain, which later discovered that it controls the vision.
The final report pointed to an error because the captain did not notice is the hardware and the flight crew during the final minutes of them in order to verify the existence of the slow speed is expected in order to prevent a collision on the ground. In September 2009 found the remains of an additional site of the crash.

Stories of ghosts and fanfareOver the months and years following staff started an airline Eastern Airlines reported on their observations of the members of the crew dead, but on the other plane is the L-1011. And the story and that he had been pulled out some parts of the plane N310EA (flight 401) was installed in the aircraft etc. are L-1011, and although it was recovered some pieces of the plane and re-used in other aircraft belonging to the fleet of the company, the result of the incident is a total loss aircraft structure N310EA.
The news of Views (reached the 27 views), which included the vision of life (without Ribot) and (Bob Luft) have spread company Eastern Airlines to the extent that the company has warned its employees of their dismissal if they Ptnaql stories of ghosts that, as described by the official Peter Piot, the company Frank Burman as "extremely ridiculous," and the action to sue the producers of the movie "ghost flight 401" The Ghost of Flight 401, which was produced in 1978 on charges of libel and defamation.The strange thing is that the company hired a priest to expel the ghosts of its aircraft (according to some sources).
- In 1979, record the singer Bob Welch song on the album, "three hearts" Three Hearts song called "ghost flight 401".
- Inspired by an incident crash-mentioned two films produced for television, namely "accident crash flight 401" based on the book Rob and Sarah, which was printed in 1977, which mention the details of the incident, the type of drama and the subsequent efforts Alankad and achieve NTSB while the film "The ghost of flight 401" based on the Fuller book. Emerged as the incident is also mentioned in the fifth season of Maiday Mayday (also known as the "be investigated crashes") and the episode title "Who was the hand control?!" , And also carried the fourth episode (first season) of the famous television series Supernatural supernatural theme "the specter of 401" and explained that the incident occurred in circumstances Mauraúah.



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