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Feb 18, 1978 · The Ghost of Flight 401: Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. With Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, Tina Chen, Kim Basinger. An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft.
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- Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, Tina Chen
- Steven Hilliard Stern
The television movie The Ghost of Flight 401, which was broadcast on NBC during February 1978, offers a fictionalized depiction of the crash and alleged ghost sightings. The flight is referenced as part of the Bob Welch song "The Ghost of Flight 401" on his 1979 album Three Hearts .
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Feb 11, 2024 · A look at some of the strange tales that emerged following the accident. It is now more than 50 years since the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, which crashed into the Florida Everglades in December 1972. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar traveling from New York (JFK) to Miami (MIA).
Oct 21, 2020 · The 52-year-old flight engineer was one of 101 people who’d died Dec. 29, 1972 when Eastern Flight 401, packed with holiday travelers, slammed into the Everglades 19 miles northwest of Miami...
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Oct 30, 2015 · ON A dark, moonless night in 1972, an Eastern Airlines plane crashed in Miami killing 101 of the 176 people on board. Disaster had struck when the crew were attempting to land. A light that should have indicated the nose gear had been deployed wasn’t working — investigators later found the light had burnt out.
Jun 1, 1976 · 635 ratings85 reviews. It takes more than whimsy for a giant airline to ground a multimillion-dollar jumbo jet. What the renowned investigative writer John Fuller stumbled upon was a jet-age ghost story – crews wouldn’t fly the plane because of the reappearing apparitions of a dead pilot and flight engineer from a crashed sister ship.
