I give "The Ghost Of Flight 401" (Based on the book by John Fuller) a 10-star rating based on hearing these stories first-hand. I really enjoyed this book, and I end up having to replace my copy every few years. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. This is a well researched and honestly written book about the details of the crash and the aftermath for the relatives of those who had died and the airplane staff who experienced some very strange things over the next yearsVery interesting book to read, "IF" you know nothing about the "Ghost of flight 401" to begin with!
I thought that the facts and research into the story was very well done. A ferry crew was assigned to fly it back home empty for repairs. Loft told Stockstill to put the plane on autopilot while Repo went below to the avionics bay (called the "hell hole") to manually check the landing gear.
As other reviewers note, this is the nonfiction story of Eastern Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades back in 1972. Get this from a library! Print is a bit small, but otherwise great. Whenever someone told Fuller such a story, they frequently asked him not to use their real name, out of fear of reprisal from the company; thus, the book is full of untraceable sources and unverifiable claims.This becomes less surprising when you look at Fuller's publishing history. Some may have tried to turn this actual human tragedy into a fictional ghost story, but it was the efforts of the real people involved who used it to extinguish a few real ghosts in the form of safety flaws, to reduce the chances of the same type of accident happening again.To this day, more than four decades later, the survivors mark each December 29, and some still gather at the crash site to remember those who were lost.Elder, R. "Flight 401 Survivors, Years After the Crash and Memorial Efforts."
This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. On those other planes, members of the doomed flight crew appear to give cogent warnings as to electrical and hydraulic problems.
Books and TV movies frightened audiences, and this ghost story that had it all became a permanent fixture in great American tales of the paranormal. I like to read about haunted places and first heard about the Ghost of Flight 401 on YouTube. This show is made possible by financial support from listeners like you. I remember watching the film that was made of this book in the late 70s - I was about 10 at the time and it completely freaked me out! Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
Life changing.
While a few of the sightings had to do with Captain Bob Loft (died from his injuries before being removed from the cockpit), the majority of them centered around Second Officer Don Repo (who lingered for thirteen hours before succumbing to his injuries). The Ghost of Flight 401 was a book of nearly pure fiction, as was the TV movie that followed it. Wake Up, It's A Crash - The Survivors' Stories I found it a bit cumbersome at first because the first few chapters were devoted to preparatory content and I found myself having to wade through pages & pages of text in order to finally get to the actual reports of the incidents.
Rather than just relate the paranormal incidents that took place on other Eastern Airline planes after the crash, he relates how he went about his research and informs the reader (over and over again) that Eastern employees were reluctant to speak to him for fear of reprisals. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Perhaps Fuller read it, and was inspired to concoct the rest of the story.
Flashlights became part of the standard equipment; flight attendants now have shoulder harnesses whether their seats face forward or backward; the acoustic alerts given to pilots to advise them of changes to the autopilot settings were dramatically improved; and the groundwork was laid for what later became the science of Cockpit Resource Management, which aims to minimize human error by codifying communication, leadership, and decision making in the cockpit.