Ghost of Flight 401 (Jet Age Paranormal 1972)

Eastern flight 401 left Idlewild for Miami on December 29, 1972, carrying 176 people including crew. A strange series of mishaps and overzealousness led it to crash in the Everglades as it was circling making ready to land at Miami International. It was the first crash of the new jumbo jet Lockheed "Whisperliner" model L-1011, which went on to have a good safety record with only one major crash that I know of at Dallas/Ft. Worth decades later. Ninety-nine died in the crash and 77 survived, with two survivors dying in hospital later. Many of the passengers and crew also caught "gas gangrene" bacterial infections while soaking their injuries in the Everglades waiting for rescue.

What makes this crash extraordinary instead of just a sad story of bad luck is that the dead crew began showing up on other Eastern flights in the months and years following, until roughly June of 1974. The captain was seen by multiple witnesses at Newark airport, and showed up more than once as a "deadhead" passenger bumming a ride home in first class. The techie on 401, named Repo, had a long career of haunting the galley and making grand statements to multiple stewardess witnesses, and several times warned of failing equipment before it failed.

Writer John (Jon) G. Fuller, still working on his most famous book, We Almost Lost Detroit, about the danger of civilian nuclear power, caught wind of the story and began snooping around. His book Ghost of Flight 401 came out after Detroit and was followed by two made-for-TV movies, Ghost of Flight 401 on NBC in mid-February and Crash on ABC in late October of 1978.

This torrent contains the book in mobi, lit and epub formats, a copy of the NBC film and a trailer/ad for the ABC film. Also included is a retrospective by the Miami Herald consisting of 4 short videos containing eye-witness/survivor accounts and photos from the crash site, as well as 3 PDFs also from Miami Herald, including the cockpit voice recorder transcript, a poem and a memoir.