Talk:Eastern Air Lines Flight 401

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DEAR TO WHOMEVER:

RE: EASTERN FLIGHT 401 - JFK TO MIA IN 12/72.

ACCORDING TO MY DEAR DEPARTED FRIEND, THE FORMER SENIOR CAPTAIN, EASTERN AIRLINES JAMES G LAVAKE, THE SAD IRONY OF THAT L-1011 THAT WENT DOWN IN THE GLADES, IS, THIS:

THE PLANE WAS A RELATIVE VIRIN, WITH TOTAL COMMERCIAL HOURS NOT EVEN RECORDED YET; SHE'D BEEN JUST ROLLED DOWN THE DECK. AND, MORE ASTOUNDINGLY, THE FACT OF THE FOLLOWING:

      1 CAPTAIN JAMES LAVAKE FLEW THAT BRAND NEW JET FROM
        MIA-JFK; AND FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER ONLY
        30K HOURS THERE WAS NOTHING TO RECORD
        ON THE MAINTENANCE REPORT.

      2 THE GEAR LOCKDOWN WORKED JUST FINE

      3 THE PLANE WAS HANDED OFF TO THE DOOMED CAPTAIN, 
        HIS CREW AND THE PASSENGERS

      4 CAPTAIN LAVAKE AND CREW HANDED THE L-1011 TO 
        THE HEIR APPARENTS

OF COURSE THEY DID; UNFORTUNATELY SOMETIMES WHEN THINGS ARE WORKING SO WELL.....YOU KNOW, STUFF HAPPENS

AND, AS A FORMER PILOT I ALSO KNOW CRASHES ARE A RESULT OF MANY VARIABLES, MOST OF WHICH WE PILOTS ARE TRAINED TO DEAL WITH TO COMPLETE THE FLIGHT SAFELY.

THE $12 BULB SEEMS LUDICROUS. YES, THEY IN THE COCKPIT, ON THE FLIGHT DECK, WHATEVER, SCREWED UP...BIG TIME.

THE CAPTAIN BUMPED OFF THE AUTO BY NUDGING HIS YOLK TOO HARD AS HE PREOCCUPIED HIMSELF WITH THE FLIGHT ENGINEER IN THE "HELL HOLE" AND DOWN THEY WENT.

IT BROKE MY HEART AS A FLEDGLING FLYER AT THE TIME AND IT HAD AN IMPACT ON ME THAT STILL LASTS TO THIS DAY AFTER MANY HOURS.

IN THOSE EARLY YEARS YOU MUST KNOW YOUR EQUIPMENT, YOURSELF AND THE CULTURE IN THE COCKPIT.

NEVER TAKE ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED FOR GRANTED.

THANK YOU.

WILLIAM TIBBY

1 Copyright Holder
2 Who is Borman
3 Fatalities and injuries
4 Photograph

[edit] Copyright Holder

I manage the website from which the offending copy was lifted, and it's OK with me. Much of the copy listed on the Flight 401 home page (http://www.geocities.com/donuts13) was taken from the book "Crash" by Rob Elder and used with the author's permission.

[edit] Who is Borman

Is the Frank Borman in the article the same as the one who worked for NASA during the Apollo program? Either way, this needs to be explained.

One and the same. He became CEO of Eastern in 1975. I clarified this a bit in the article. -- Kaszeta 8 July 2005 12:58 (UTC)

[edit] Fatalities and injuries

How is it that no one was injured in a crash that killed 101 of 176 occupants?

[edit] Photograph

A number of photographs of Easter Air Lines L-1011s are avaialbe at airliners.net (though there seem to be no photos of the accident aircraft) ... why is an ATA L-1011 shown?

Because the airliner.net images are copyrighted. Dan100 (Talk) 22:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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