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Ghosts-of-Flight-401 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: My wife is a total skeptic. She does not believe
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  Speaker 1: in the paranormal whatsoever and never has. But when I
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  Speaker 1: told her just a portion of today's story, specifically the
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  Speaker 1: part about the passenger in first class you'll know when
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  Speaker 1: you get to that scene, she told me she was
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  Speaker 1: so intrigued by it. And I think the reason for
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  Speaker 1: that is in this story. As you'll see, there were
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  Speaker 1: so many witnesses, hundreds of witnesses, and so how could
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  Speaker 1: they all be making this up? But before we get
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  Speaker 1: Around eight thirty pm on December twenty ninth, nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: two passengers inside of JFK International Airport in Queens, New York,
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  Speaker 1: heard over the intercom that Eastern Airlines flight four zero
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  Speaker 1: one to Miami was now boarding. About thirty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: all one hundred and seventy six passengers, which included the
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  Speaker 1: thirteen crew members, had made it on board, and then
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  Speaker 1: at that point the thirteen crew members began making their
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  Speaker 1: final preparations for takeoff. Flight four zero one was a
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  Speaker 1: very expensive and recently introduced model of plane by Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Airlines called the Lockheed L ten to eleven TriStar, and
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  Speaker 1: it was both unbelievably technologically advanced and unbelievably enormous up
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  Speaker 1: to four hundred passengers, which meant instead of having four
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  Speaker 1: seats to a row like you would expect inside of
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  Speaker 1: a passenger jet, the L ten elevens had eight seats
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  Speaker 1: per row, and they had two levels. There was the
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  Speaker 1: main level, which was the main cabin where all the
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  Speaker 1: passengers were, and then there was a second level, a
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  Speaker 1: lower level that was only accessible via two small elevators
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  Speaker 1: that could barely fit one person inside of them in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the aircraft, and down on this lower
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  Speaker 1: level was a full size kitchen which had ovens and refrigerators,
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  Speaker 1: and also at the back of this lower level was
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  Speaker 1: a lounge area four flight staff. The pilot that night
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  Speaker 1: was Bob Loft, who was a strikingly handsome fifty five
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  Speaker 1: year old man with over thirty thousand hours of flying experience,
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  Speaker 1: which for reference, is a ton of flying experience. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Bob was known as a perfectionist who exuded confidence and
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  Speaker 1: who was cool under pressure. After Bob had boarded the aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: he had made his way right into the cock pit,
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  Speaker 1: which is the very front of the plane where the
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  Speaker 1: pilots fly the plane, and he had sat down in
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  Speaker 1: the customary captain seat, which was the front left seat.
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  Speaker 1: And then after he had sat down, his ten years
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  Speaker 1: younger first officer or co pilot, a man named Bert Stockstill,
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  Speaker 1: had joined him in the cockpit and sat down in
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  Speaker 1: the customary co pilot seat, which was directly to the
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  Speaker 1: right of Captain Bob. And so after the pilot and
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  Speaker 1: co pilot were both seated, the remaining two members of
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  Speaker 1: that night's cockpit crew came into the cockpit. Now, normally,
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  Speaker 1: in most passenger jets there were only two seats in
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit, but because l ten to eleven. Planes were
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  Speaker 1: so massive there were four seats in the cockpit, and
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  Speaker 1: so one of the last two men who joined the
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  Speaker 1: cockpit was fifty one year old Don Ripo, who was
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  Speaker 1: the flight's engineer. And despite him being this big, strong
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  Speaker 1: ox of a man, he was actually known as being
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  Speaker 1: fairly soft spoken and very approachable, and so Don came
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  Speaker 1: into the cockpit, he said hello, and then he sat
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  Speaker 1: down in the seat right behind the co pilot Burt.
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  Speaker 1: And then a few seconds after dawn, the last man
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  Speaker 1: came into the cockpit. It was forty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: Angelo Donadeo. Angelo was not actually part of that night's
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  Speaker 1: flight crew, however, he was an employee of Eastern Airlines
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  Speaker 1: and that night he needed to get to Miami, and
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  Speaker 1: so the company had put him on flight four zero
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  Speaker 1: one and sat him in the fourth and final seat
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit, right behind Captain Bob. Around nine to
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  Speaker 1: ten pm, all pre flight checks had been completed, all
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  Speaker 1: passengers were seated, as was the crew, and so Captain
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  Speaker 1: Bob began taxiing over to the runway. Ten minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: at nine to twenty pm, Captain Bob pushed the throttles
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  Speaker 1: forward and the plane began to take off a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, and flight four zero one was airborne up
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  Speaker 1: in the night sky over New York, headed south towards Miami.
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  Speaker 1: For the next two hours, this flight was completely normal.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it was so normal that one of the
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  Speaker 1: passengers named Jerry Escou actually wrote a letter while he
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  Speaker 1: was on the plane telling Eastern Airlines how great their
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  Speaker 1: airline was and how smooth this flight was. His plan
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  Speaker 1: was once they landed to mail this letter to Eastern Airlines.
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  Speaker 1: But at eleven thirty two pm, so two hours and
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  Speaker 1: twelve minutes after takeoff, this flight would go from being
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  Speaker 1: very routine and normal to being anything. But at eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty two pm, Captain Bob began his approach to Miami
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  Speaker 1: International Airport. But when he lowered the plane's landing gear,
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  Speaker 1: his co pilot Bert noticed they had a problem. L
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  Speaker 1: Ten to eleven jets like four zero one have three
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  Speaker 1: pieces of landing gear. They have wheels that come down
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  Speaker 1: under the left wing, they have wheels that come down
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  Speaker 1: under the right wing, and they have wheels that pop
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  Speaker 1: out of the nose of the plane. And each of
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  Speaker 1: these pieces of landing gear has a corresponding little light bulb,
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  Speaker 1: a green light bulb inside the cockpit that once that
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  Speaker 1: piece of landing gear comes down and walks in place
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  Speaker 1: and is ready to be landed on, its green light
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  Speaker 1: will go on inside of the cockpit. But when Captain
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  Speaker 1: Bob lowered their landing gear, his co pilot Burt, noticed
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  Speaker 1: only two of the lights came on. The one that
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  Speaker 1: did not light up was the nose landing gear. Now
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  Speaker 1: Captain Bob and the other men in the cockpit when
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  Speaker 1: they saw this issue, they immediately assumed it had to
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  Speaker 1: be the light bulb itself that was faulty, not the
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  Speaker 1: actual nose landing gear. Because this plane was brand new,
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  Speaker 1: it had been checked before they left, so the likelihood
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  Speaker 1: of the nose landing gear being faulty was incredibly slim,
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  Speaker 1: and so Captain Bob, while maintaining his approach towards Miami International,
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  Speaker 1: he retracted the landing gear and then once it had
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  Speaker 1: come back into the plane, he just lowered it again,
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  Speaker 1: thinking this time all three lights would come on. But
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  Speaker 1: once again, once the landing gear was deployed the second time,
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  Speaker 1: still the nose landing gear light did not come on,
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  Speaker 1: and so, frustrated Captain Bob hopped on the radio and
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  Speaker 1: contacted Miami Air Traffic Control and told them that he
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  Speaker 1: could not confirm his landing gear was actually safe to
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  Speaker 1: land on, and so they would have to circle around
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  Speaker 1: for a bit in the sky and get it figured out.
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  Speaker 1: And so Miami Air Traffic Control acknowledged what Captain Bob
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  Speaker 1: said and then directed Captain Bob to fly out over
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  Speaker 1: the nearby Everglades, which is a massive wetlands area in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and to stay out over the Everglades away from other
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  Speaker 1: traffic until they fixed the problem. And so, once flight
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  Speaker 1: four zero one was out over the Everglades, flying in
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  Speaker 1: a circular pattern, Captain Bob and his copilot set the
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  Speaker 1: plane to autopilot so that it would maintain a constant
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  Speaker 1: altitude of two thousand feet and a constant speed of
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  Speaker 1: two hundred miles per hour. And so, once the plane
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  Speaker 1: was all set, Captain Bob and his co pilot, Burt,
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  Speaker 1: began fiddling with this front nosegear indicator light bulb, which
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  Speaker 1: they were convinced was faulty, and so they started by
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  Speaker 1: pressing on the light and when that didn't work, they
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  Speaker 1: began twisting it, and when that didn't work, they actually
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  Speaker 1: pulled the light bulb off the panel and kind of
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  Speaker 1: blew the dirt and grime off of it, and then
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  Speaker 1: they jammed it back into the panel. But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they did, not only did it not go back on,
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  Speaker 1: but they realized they had put it in sideways and
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  Speaker 1: so they couldn't actually get it out again. And so
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  Speaker 1: now they're thinking, this light's not going to go on
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  Speaker 1: at all. We need to find another way to make
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  Speaker 1: sure the nose landing gear has come down. And so
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  Speaker 1: Captain Bob at this point is totally frustrated, and so
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  Speaker 1: he turns around and he looks at Don Repo, the
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  Speaker 1: flight engineer, who's sitting right behind the copilot, and he
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  Speaker 1: tells Don to go down into the hell hole and
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  Speaker 1: directly inspect the front landing gear himself. So the hell
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  Speaker 1: hole is a space right below the cockpit, and the
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  Speaker 1: way you get to it is through a trapdoor in
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  Speaker 1: the floor in the center of the cockpit. And then
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  Speaker 1: once down in the hell hole, there is this window
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  Speaker 1: that looks straight towards the front of the aircraft where
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  Speaker 1: you could look out and actually see the front landing
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  Speaker 1: gear and you could make sure it was down or not.
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  Speaker 1: And so Don repo. He gets out of a seat
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  Speaker 1: and he opens up the hellhole trap door and he
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  Speaker 1: makes his way down below. Meanwhile, two thousand feet below
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  Speaker 1: flight four zero one, a forty three year old man
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  Speaker 1: named Robert Marquise along with a friend of his. We're
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  Speaker 1: looking for frogs in the Everglades, riding around on Robert's airboat.
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  Speaker 1: An airboat is a flat bottom boat with this huge
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  Speaker 1: fan on the back of it that propels it forward.
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  Speaker 1: It's popular in the Everglades because the water depth is
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  Speaker 1: so shallow. At points in the Everglades, the water's only
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  Speaker 1: a couple of inches deep, and so all around these
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  Speaker 1: two guys it is totally pitch blackout There are no
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  Speaker 1: buildings or people for miles and miles and miles. Their
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  Speaker 1: only light source is Robert's headlamp. And so at some
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  Speaker 1: point Robert turns off the airboat and he and his
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  Speaker 1: friend are just standing in the middle of it, kind
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  Speaker 1: of scanning around on either side and all around them.
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  Speaker 1: They can hear the sound of alligators growling and snakes
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  Speaker 1: and frogs moving about the tall grass, and as they're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of silently looking around them, out of the
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  Speaker 1: corner of Robert's eye, he sees something, and so he
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  Speaker 1: looks up right as he say, this huge orange and
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  Speaker 1: yellow flash that kind of came out of the ground
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  Speaker 1: roughly five miles away from where they were. And basically
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  Speaker 1: as soon as Robert saw it, this flash dissipated and
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  Speaker 1: it was just totally gone. And so he turned to
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  Speaker 1: his friend, who had not seen this flash, and Robert said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's go investigate. Let's see what that was. And so
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  Speaker 1: Robert fired up his boat again and he began flying
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  Speaker 1: across the Everglades straight in the direction of where he
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  Speaker 1: saw this flash. And after fifteen minutes of cruising it
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  Speaker 1: forty miles per hour across this dark expanse, they reached
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  Speaker 1: the area where this flash had been and Robert and
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  Speaker 1: his friend they just could not believe what they were
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  Speaker 1: looking at. About twenty minutes earlier, back up inside of
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  Speaker 1: flight four zero one, when Captain Bob turned around in
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  Speaker 1: his seat to tell the flight engineer Don Repo to
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  Speaker 1: go down into the hell hole, It's believed that Captain
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  Speaker 1: Bob nudged the steering wheel with his leg, and this
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  Speaker 1: little nudge was enough to disengage the plane's autopilot, which
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  Speaker 1: sent the plane into a gradual descent, but nobody noticed
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  Speaker 1: because one, it was totally pitch black outside the Everglades
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  Speaker 1: below them. There's no lights, there's nothing, and there was
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  Speaker 1: no moon that night, and so when they're looking out
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  Speaker 1: the window, there would have been no visual cues that
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  Speaker 1: they were going down, up, or anything. It just would
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  Speaker 1: have looked like a total void outside. And two, the
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  Speaker 1: descent they were now suddenly in was so gradual it
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  Speaker 1: would not have felt like they were tumbling out of
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  Speaker 1: the sky. It would have felt like they were just
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  Speaker 1: cruising as expected. And three, all of the men in
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit were completely fixated on this light bulb problem.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they were so fixated that when an alarm
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  Speaker 1: went off inside of the cockpit telling them they had
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  Speaker 1: dipped below their intended altitude of two thousand feet they
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  Speaker 1: were now going down, nobody noticed, although to the credit,
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  Speaker 1: this alarm only sounded once and it wasn't that loud,
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  Speaker 1: And so not long after Don Repo had gone down
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  Speaker 1: into the hell hole, the plane crashed into the everglades.
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  Speaker 1: No one on board Flight four zero one, from the
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  Speaker 1: cockpit crew to the passengers to the other flight staff,
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  Speaker 1: had any idea they were in an emergency until they
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  Speaker 1: hit the ground, and when they hit the ground, the
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  Speaker 1: plane exploded. And that was what Robert Marquis saw when
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  Speaker 1: he looked up and saw that yellow and orange flash.
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  Speaker 1: And so Robert and his friend they speed over to
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  Speaker 1: the crash site. And when they get there, they are
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  Speaker 1: the first ones there. And even though they're looking out
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  Speaker 1: and they can hear the sound of all these people
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  Speaker 1: screaming and crying and moaning, they can't see anything because
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  Speaker 1: the fire from this huge explosion was already out because
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  Speaker 1: the swampy wetlands had pretty much immediately extinguished it. And
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  Speaker 1: even though the plane had crashed into the ground at
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  Speaker 1: over two hundred miles per hour, it had not struck
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  Speaker 1: the ground at a very steel deep angle because basically
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  Speaker 1: the plane was in this gradual descent pattern and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of coasted until it hit the ground. And so that,
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  Speaker 1: combined with the soft, muddy ground of the Everglades, meant
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  Speaker 1: that the impact of the plane hitting the ground was
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as violent as other plane crashes were, and
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  Speaker 1: that ultimately saved lives. In fact, dozens of passengers survived
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  Speaker 1: the initial impact with the ground, but many of them
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  Speaker 1: were left with these horrible injuries or they were trapped
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  Speaker 1: within the wreckage, or both. When Robert and his friend
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the edge of the crash scene, Robert lifted
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  Speaker 1: up his headlamp and began to scan, and he saw
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  Speaker 1: all these body parts sticking out of the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: then his light rested on the first survivor he saw,
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  Speaker 1: and it was this man whose clothes had been completely
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  Speaker 1: burned off from the explosion. All he had on was
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit of his socks on both ankles.
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  Speaker 1: And this man was still strapped into the seat that
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  Speaker 1: he had been on on the plane, and when the
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  Speaker 1: plane had broken up, his seat had fallen forward into
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  Speaker 1: the mud, pinning this man's upper body and most of
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  Speaker 1: his face under several inches of water. And so as
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  Speaker 1: Robert had scanned over with his light, his light had
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  Speaker 1: hit this man's face, and he had looked up and
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  Speaker 1: pleaded with Robert and his friend to come get him
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  Speaker 1: before he drowned. And so Robert and his friend they
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  Speaker 1: jumped off their boat and ran over to the sky
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  Speaker 1: and pulled the chair up and out of the water,
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  Speaker 1: saving this guy's life. But as soon as he was
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  Speaker 1: up and out of the water, Robert and his friend
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  Speaker 1: began hearing more calls from other people in the darkness
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  Speaker 1: screaming for help. Robert and his friend would do their
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  Speaker 1: absolute best to save as many people as they possibly could,
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  Speaker 1: but there was just too many people who needed saving
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  Speaker 1: and not enough time. About thirty minutes after Robert and
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  Speaker 1: his friend had arrived at the scene, the Coastguard showed
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  Speaker 1: up in helicopters, and they, along with Robert and his friend,
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  Speaker 1: would spend the entire night pulling as many people to
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  Speaker 1: safety as they possibly could. By the time the sun
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  Speaker 1: came up on the fall day, there were no other
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  Speaker 1: survivors left to save. All told, ninety nine people perished
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  Speaker 1: and seventy seven survived. Amongst the dead were Captain Bob
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  Speaker 1: Loft and his co pilot Bert Stockstill, and their flight
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  Speaker 1: engineer Don Ripo, who had gone down into the hellhole.
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  Speaker 1: Amongst these survivors was Angelo Donadeo, the fourth man in
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit, as well as Jerry Escau, the man who
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  Speaker 1: ironically had written that letter to Eastern Airlines saying how
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  Speaker 1: wonderful that flight had been. A major investigation following the
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  Speaker 1: crash would confirm that the reason Flight four oh one
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  Speaker 1: went down was because of a number of factors, most
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  Speaker 1: notably human error. The investigation would also confirm that the
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  Speaker 1: nose landing gear was working perfectly fine. The light bulb
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  Speaker 1: not coming on was a result of the light bulb
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  Speaker 1: being burned out. Following the investigation, Eastern Airlines would make
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  Speaker 1: every effort to compensate both the survivors of the crash
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  Speaker 1: and also families of those who were killed in the crash.
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines would also make major changes to their training
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  Speaker 1: for their pilots and co pilots and anybody that was
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  Speaker 1: ever going to be in the cockpit to ensure this
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  Speaker 1: type of disaster never happened again. But this was not
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  Speaker 1: the end of the story for Flight for zero one.
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  Speaker 1: I was recently eating lunch with a friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: in uscapog Rhode Island when he asked me, John, what
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  Speaker 1: is your biggest dream in life? Now? Ever since I
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  Speaker 1: was a literal newborn baby, I've had a huge dream
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  Speaker 1: that I've always been too scared to commit to it.
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason, when my friend in uscapog asked
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  Speaker 1: me this question, I felt this euphoria growing inside of me,
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  Speaker 1: and then before I could stop myself, I blurted out
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  Speaker 1: the truth. I want to create a mildly effective, mildly
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  Speaker 1: effective one. I want to make a mildly effective cold
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  Speaker 1: medicine made exclusively out of Egyptian fire ants. Ooh. And
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  Speaker 1: then before my friend could react to this revelation, I
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  Speaker 1: turned and left.
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  Speaker 3: Head first out of the glass window. And then when
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  Speaker 3: I hit the ground, and I turned around, expecting to
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  Speaker 3: see my friend angry and staring down at me, ready
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  Speaker 3: to fight me. But instead he was standing on our
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  Speaker 3: table doing a jig, stomping on our plates and our cups,
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  Speaker 3: and all around.
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  Speaker 1: Him, our waiters and waitresses were cheering, saying go, John, go,
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  Speaker 1: and so go I did. After a quick salute to
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  Speaker 1: the gang, I turned and I ran directly into traffic,
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  Speaker 1: and for ninety seven miles I ran along the freeway
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  Speaker 1: until I got to Chickapee, Massachusetts, where I climbed up
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  Speaker 1: into a tree and I fired up my coal powered
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  Speaker 1: laptop and I got to work on my business plan.
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  Speaker 1: But pretty quickly I learned putting together a mildly effective
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  Speaker 1: cold medicine made exclusively out of Egyptian fire ants was
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  Speaker 1: going to be very time consuming, and so where would
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  Speaker 1: I find the time to eat? And that's when I
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  Speaker 1: food right to your doorstep. So if your schedule is
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  Speaker 1: packed this fall, was school, with work, or with developing
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• 18:51
  Speaker 1: back to the story. For almost three years after the crash,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: hundreds of Eastern airline employees began to experience a terrifying phenomenon. Now,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: at first, many of these employees were going to their
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: superiors and reporting what happened to them, but very early on,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines made it clear that they didn't want anybody
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to talk about this. Anytime an employee made one of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: these reports about this phenomenon, they were either sent to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the psychiatrist or they were just fired. However, despite this
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: intense pressure from Eastern Airlines to their employees to be
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: quiet about what was going on inside of their ranks,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: there were still some very brave employees who had firsthand
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: experience with this terrifying phenomenon who still came forward and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: told their stories to the press and to journalists. They
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: just did it anonymously. And so I'm going to tell
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you two of the most chilling accounts from those employees.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind the names used in these stories have
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: all been changed. In March of nineteen seventy three, so
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: three months after Flight four zero one had crashed in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the Everglades, an Eastern Airlines flight attendant named Ginny was
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: assigned to a flight from New York to Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: working with her on this flight was her very close
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: friend and fellow flight attendant, a woman named Denise. Neither
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: of these two women were on flight four zero one
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: when it crashed. The plane these two women would be
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: working on on their flight to Florida was called number
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: three eighteen by Eastern Airlines and it was an L
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: ten to eleven, just like flight four oh one had been.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: In fact, plane number three eighteen actually had some original
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: parts from flight four zero one on it, because it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: would turn out, after that huge investigation was done on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the crash, the investigators discovered lots of parts from flight
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: four zero one were still in pretty good shape, and so,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: after rigorously testing them and ensuring they did really work,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: those parts were actually installed on other L ten to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: eleven jets in the Eastern Airline fleet. Now, for the record,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: this was not considered an inappropriate thing to do. These
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: parts were extremely expensive and they worked perfectly fine, and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: they were not involved in causing flight four oh one
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to crash, and so no one batted an I when
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines put these parts on their other planes. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Ginny and Denise, along with several other Eastern Airlines flight attendants,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: board plane number three eighteen, and after takeoff, the flight
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: attendants began going through the very long and drawn out
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: process of getting food and drink for the nearly two
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: hundred people on board the flight. And so the way
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the flight attendants divvied up the work is they would
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: have some of the attendants on the main level of
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the plane in the cabin taking orders from all the passengers,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and then the other flight attendants would be down on
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the lower level, the second level of the plane, where
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the kitchen was preparing all the food and drinks. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: so at some point during this process, Denise, who was
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: up on the main level helping with taking orders, realized
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: she didn't have anything to do. She had taken all
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the orders she could, and so she decided she would
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: head down to the second level to the kitchen where
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: her good friend Ginny was, to see if she could
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: help her. But ironically, as Denise got in the elevator
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in the back of the plane and began heading down
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to the second level, Ginny, who was on the second level,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: discovered she did not have anything to do. She'd already
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: prepped her cart, and so she had gotten into the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: other elevator and began going up to the main level
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to see if Denise needed any help. And so the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: two women literally passed each other in their elevators but
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: didn't see each other. And so once Ginny arrived at
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the main level, the cabin level, she got off the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: elevator and she walked down the aisle and she began
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: asking around to the other attendants if they knew where
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Denise was, and they would tell her, oh, you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: she just left a minute ago to go down to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: see you. And so after a couple of minutes, Jenny
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: would leave the main level and go back down the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: elevator to the lower level to find Denise. Now, to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: understand what happens next, you need to have a basic
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: understanding of the layout of the second level. So when
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you come down on either of those two elevators, when
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the door's open, you'd be looking down a stretch of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: hallway basically the length of the plane from the back
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: towards the front, and when you stepped off the elevator,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you'd be stepping into the middle of the kitchen. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the kitchen was very, very cramped, and on the left
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: side was a row of ovens that were all stacked
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: up against each other, and then on the other side.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: On the right side was a row of cabinets and cupboards.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: If you were to walk down the kitchen straight towards
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the front of the plane, you would eventually reach a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: wall that separated the kitchen to the lounge area, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: there was a door slightly off to the right side
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: on this wall that you could walk through to get
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: into the lounge. So if you were standing in the
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: kitchen and looking in the direction of this door, or
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't really be able to see into the lounge
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: area because again the door was kind of off to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the side, you would have to actually go over to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the door and poke your head through to get a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: full unobstructed view of the lounge. And all the lounge
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: was was a couple of sofas and chairs kind of
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: arranged in a circle. So Ginny has gotten back in
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the elevator and she's made her way back downstairs to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: continue looking Forard Denise. She gets down to the lower level,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the door's open up and she looks out into the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: kitchen and Denise is not there. In fact, the kitchen
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is totally empty, and the door leading into the lounge
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: area is shut, so she can't even see in part
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of the way into the lounge to see if anybody
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: is in there. But the second Jenny stepped off the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: elevator into the kitchen, she immediately had this powerful sense
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: that Denise was definitely down there, somewhere on the second
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: level with her, probably in the lounge area that she
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't see. And because Ginny felt so confident that Denise
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was down there, she actually didn't start by calling out
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: for Denise or walking to the door, opening it up
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and looking into the lounge to make sure Denise was there. Instead,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Ginny just turned the left and went to the ovens
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and began preparing food for the attendance upstairs. And as
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: she's making these plates of food, Ginny would periodically look
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: over at the closed door leading into the lounge, kind
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of expecting it to open up at any point and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: see Denise walk out. But after a couple of minutes,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: no one had opened the door from the lounge, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Ginny was thinking to herself, you know, I'm making quite
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a bit of noise over here. If anybody was down here,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: wouldn't they come out of the lounge and just see
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: who it was. And because Ginny again had this really
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: intense feeling that she was not alone down there. She
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: began to think, wait a minute, is Denise playing a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: practical joke on me? Is she hiding in the lounge
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: or is she hiding in one of the cabinets on
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the right side here, and she's going to jump out
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and grab me. And so the second Ginny began thinking
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: about that, she became really paranoid. And so as she's
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: making this food, she's pretty much constantly looking over at
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the door or kind of scanning behind her, waiting for
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Denise to launch out and scare her. But again, after
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: several more minutes, Jenny didn't see anybody come out of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the lounge, and none of the cabinet doors opened up.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It was just her down there. However, the longer she
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: stayed down there, the stronger that feeling got that someone
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: was in the room with her. And so now she
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: can't even make her food. She's completely turned around, just
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: scanning all around the kitchen really at this point, hoping
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Denise jumps out to scare her. And when Denise didn't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: do that, Jenny just began walking over to the door
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that would lead into the lounge. And so when she
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: reached the door, her heart was racing like mad. She
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: reached down to the handle, she turned it, she pushed
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it open, and she poked her head in real quick
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and there was no one in the lounge. But immediately
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the second her head was in that room, that feeling
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that someone was down there with her spite, and she
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: got chills all over her body, and she ran into
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the back of the lounge and looked behind all of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the chairs and sofas, praying at this point that Denise
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: was going to be down there. But after looking all
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: over the back of the lounge, there was no one there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And so finally Ginny turns around, and she's totally racked
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: with fear because now she's on the very far end
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of the lounge. There's no one in the lounge. She
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: knows there's no one in the kitchen, and here she
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is still getting that sensation that she was not alone
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: down there. But she has to go all the way
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: back across the lounge through that door into the kitchen
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to get back to the elevator so she can escape.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And so Jinny almost instinctively moved immediately to the left
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: side of the lounge and put her back up against
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the wall to make sure no one could be behind her.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And then she began slowly inching her way along the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: left wall towards the door that was now open that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: would lead back into the kitchen. And as she's slowly
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: shimmying along, her view of the kitchen is getting bigger
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger. In the whole time, she's thinking,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see someone in the kitchen, because this
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sensation that someone is down here with me is not
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: going away. But when she finally gets to the door
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and crosses into the kitchen, there's still no one there,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and so she makes a run at that point to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the elevator. She starts hitting the button, and as she's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: hitting the button, she's turning around and she has that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: awful feeling that someone's right behind her. And then finally
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the cart comes down. She hops inside the elevator, she
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: shuts the doors, she hits the button, and she begins
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: going back up. When the elevator cart got back to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the main level and the doors opened again, Ginny almost
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: knocked over the flight attendant that was standing right outside
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of it, a woman named Mildred, And after Mildred and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Genny kind of regained their balance, they both looked at
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: each other, and Mildred could see very clearly that Ginny
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: looked horrible. She was totally pale, she was sweating, and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: so Mildred said, Ginny, are you okay? What's going on?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: And Ginny would just say, I don't know. I can't
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: tell you what's going on. I don't know. But Mildred,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: instead of asking follow up questions, just said, Ginny, you
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: need to come with me, And so Ginny would follow Mildred,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: who led them back around behind me the elevators to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the space in the back of the plane, kind of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: out of view of the passengers, and there Ginny would
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: find Denise, and Denise looked pale as a ghost. She
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: was sweating and looked totally shaken up. It would turn out,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: when Ginny left the lower level for the first time
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to come up to the main level to look for
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Denise and then learned that Denise was not up there,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that Denise had actually gone down to look for Ginny.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: In those few minutes that Ginny was up on the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: main level before she went back down again to continue
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: looking for Denise, Denise was on the lower level, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Denise would say when she got off the elevator into
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the kitchen. There was no one down there, but immediately
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: she believed Ginny had to be down there because of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the strong sense that she was not alone down there. However,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: when she opened up the door to look into the lounge,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: she didn't see anyone, and it totally spooked her. She
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: shut the door. She ran back to the elevators, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: she went back upstairs, and as she was going up
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in her elevator car, who once again passed her in
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the other elevator car Ginny, And so once again the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: two women did not see each other. And so these
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: two women, who had never experienced anything like this before
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: in their lives, had nearly identical experiences totally independent of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: each other, just a couple of minutes apart, in the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: exact same space. It was just too many coincidences for
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: them to totally write it off, and so that was
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a big reason why they felt like they had to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: come forward with their information. One month later, plane number
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: three eighteen, the same plane that Ginny and Denise had
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: had their frightening experiences on, was at Newark Liberty International
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Airport in New Jersey, undergoing pre flight checks from its
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: crew before its flight to Miami. That morning, after most
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of the checks were done, the passengers were allowed to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: board the plane, and then after it seemed like most
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of the passengers had arrived and taken their seats, the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: senior flight attendant, whose name was Sis, began counting the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: people on board the plane to make sure they had everyone,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and after counting up and down the rows, she realized
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: their head count was off by one. They had won
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: too many people, and so when Sis began recounting, she
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: actually quickly identified the discrepancy. Sis was standing in first
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: class in the aisle, and as she was counting down
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the left side of first class passengers, she noticed there
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: was an Eastern Airline's captain seated in one of the seats,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and so immediately Sis thought, oh, okay, I don't recognize
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: this person, but since he's in uniform, he must be
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: dead heading. Dead Heading is a fairly common practice for
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: airline employees where if they need to be on a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: particular flight but are not physically at the origin airport,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: they will just hop on another company flight that happens
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to be going to the airport they need to go to,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and at least in the nineteen seventies, it was not
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: uncommon for employees not necessarily to tell the flight staff
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: until they were literally on the plane, because these employees
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: would just check the manifest see if there were openings,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and then climb on board. And so SIS assumed that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was exactly what this man had done, and that was
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: why he was unaccounted for, and it was why they
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: had this extra person, and so she just needed to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: get his name to account for him. And so SIS
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: turned and took a couple of steps until she was
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: right in front of this guy who was still just seated,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: looking straight ahead, and Sis introduced herself and asked him
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: if he was dead heading, But the captain just continued
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to stare straight ahead and didn't even seem to register
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that Sis was talking to him, despite the fact that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Sis was right on top of him and speaking very
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: very clearly, and nobody else was talking. And so Sis,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who was aware of the fact that this guy clearly
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: should have heard her, just kind of waited for a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: second and then just asked again, you know, hey, what's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: your name? I need to make sure that you are
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: in fact dead heading. But again this captain just sat
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: there without moving and didn't remotely react to Sis. Now
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: by this point, another flight attendant named Diane had looked
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: over and actually saw Sis having this strange interaction with
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: this Eastern Airlines captain, and so Diane walked over and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: listened as Sis, for a third time tried to get
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: this guy's attention, but he still did nothing, and so
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Diane and Sis they start looking at each other, like
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: what do we do about this? And at some point
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Sis just says, Okay, I'm gonna go tell the captain.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: You know, he can deal with this. And so Diane
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: stayed in the aisle next to this silent seated captain
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: while Sis turned and walked towards the cockpit, and she
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: told the captain, whose name was George, and so George
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: he leaves the cockpit with Sis by his side, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: they start walking down the aisle back towards where this
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: guy was and where Diane was. And by the time
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: they get there, six other passengers kind of in the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: general vicinity, had noticed something strange was going on, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so they were all kind of turned around in their
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: seats looking at this captain who was sitting there, and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Diane and Sis and George kind of waiting to see
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: what was going to happen. And so George and Sis.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: They walk right up alongside Dianne and this seated silent captain,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and George immediately crouched down to get a good look
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: at this guy's face, because again, this captain is just
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: looking straight ahead with a hat on, and so no
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: one had really looked at him yet. And so George
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: kneels down and he sees this guy's face for the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: first time, and he falls over and goes, oh, my god,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that's Bob Loft, the same Bob Loft who had died
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: on flight four oh one, the captain of flight four
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: oh one. George had known Bob really well and knew
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: exactly what Bob looked like. But before Bob, Siss, Diane,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: or the six other passengers that were all watching could
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: do anything, the seated silent captain that looked exactly like
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Bob Loft vanished into thin air right in front of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: all of them. And immediately, these six passengers on board
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the flight that saw this happen became hysterical. They could
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: not understand what they had just seen. People are screaming
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and crying, and George, Diane, and Sis they were very
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: shaken at what they saw, but they they knew they
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: were in charge of this flight, and so they tried
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: to calm down the passengers, but then very quickly they
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: organized a search of the plane because they're telling themselves,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: no one can just disappear into thin air. This guy
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: has to be somewhere on the plane. And so for
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: over an hour, the passengers were told to stay in
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  Speaker 1: their seats and were told to stay calm while the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: flight crew searched every crevice, every nook and cranny of
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  Speaker 1: this flight to see if they could find this guy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But they never did, and so after a very long delay,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Plane number three eighteen, along with its very shaken up
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: passengers and flight crew, eventually rumbled out onto the runway
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and took off. When they landed in Miami, the first
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: thing George, Diane and sis All did is they went
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: in and filed a report about what they had seen
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: about this vanishing person. But Eastern Airline didn't do anything
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: about their reports. In fact, the logbook where these reports
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: were kept was can spare aqueously missing. A couple of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: weeks later, when some other employees of the airline heard
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: about this vanishing person and wanted to read the reports themselves.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And when these employees went to their superiors and asked
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: if they could get this log book. The answer from
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the top was, George, Diane and SIS never filed those reports.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: There was no vanishing person. This whole thing is a
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: bunch of crap. But George, Diane and SIS all said,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: we filed those reports. And apparently some other pilots within
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines had actually seen the reports before the logbook
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: went missing, and they would tell other people that what
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: they read was terrifying. Over the next two years, there
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: would be an astounding number of other totally unexplainable events
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: that took place on other planes within Eastern Airline's fleet. However,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the strange events only occurred on L ten to eleven
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: jets that had parts on them from the crashed flight
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  Speaker 1: for zero one. Some of these unexplained events included more
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  Speaker 1: sightings of the silent seated captain who looked just like
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Bob Loft, and in fact, one of those sightings was
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: by an Eastern Airlines executive who, after seeing this captain
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  Speaker 1: vanish into thin air right in front of him, the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: executive freaked out and ran off the plane and demanded
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the plane be searched top to bottom, but like the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: last search, nothing was found. On another occasion, the catering
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: company that loaded food directly into the second level of
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: these L ten elevens, basically right into the kitchen, one
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of their staff spotted a man wandering around the lower
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: level that looked just like Don Repo, the flight engineer
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: from the doomed flight four zero one. And when this
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: staff member spoke to this man who looks like Don Ripo,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Don Repo turned towards him and then vanished in the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: thin air. The catering company was so scared when this
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: happened that they refused to go back into the plane,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and it caused a massive delay. On another flight, onboard
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: plane number three eighteen, the pilot and co pilot began
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: hearing banging coming from the hell hole, and when the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: pilot got up and opened up the hell hole and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: went down below and shined his light, he didn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: But when he went to climb back up into the cockpit,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: he looked up and standing in the cockpit was once
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: again Don Repo, looking straight down at him, who then
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: promptly vanished right in front of him. On another flight,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a female passenger and coach who had been quiet the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: entire flight, suddenly began screaming hysterically, and when they went
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: up to her and asked her what was wrong, she
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: was pointing at the seat next to her and said
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a man had suddenly appeared right next to her. He
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: did not walk in, he just appeared next to her,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and then when she began screaming, he vanished right in
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: front of her. This woman was so upset that when
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: they landed finally in Phoenix, Arizona, she had to be
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: restrained in a straight jacket when they pulled her off
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the plane. But as terrifying as all of these events were,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: there was at least one one instance where these apparitions
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: appeared to be helpful to the people on the plane.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: When Captain said he walked into the cockpit and standing
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: in there was flight engineer Don Repo, and Don promptly
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: told the captain about a specific malfunction in one of
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the engines before Dawn vanished in front of this captain. Now,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: this captain was horrified at what he had just seen,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: but he did actually go down and have that engine
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: looked at, and sure enough, the malfunction that Don Repo
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: said it had it had. Then. Finally, in nineteen seventy four,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: all of these strange events just came to an abrupt stop.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Now no one knows exactly why. But in nineteen seventy four,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines, despite telling the world they didn't believe any
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: of the reports of these strange happenings on their planes.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Despite that, that year they went in to every single
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: one of their L ten to eleven jets and they
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: removed any parts that had been placed on them from
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the crashed flight for or zero one, despite the fact
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: none of those parts were faulty. They were removing perfectly
• 40:06
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• 40:09
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