Flight 401 part 5 |
35 Years after an Eastern Air Lines jet crashed into the Everglades, a rescuer looks back.
By JEFF KLINKENBERG, Times Staff WriterPublished September 16, 2007
This is the story about the night a jumb...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:09:00 GMT |
Flight 401 part 4 |
For survivors, the crash has left physical and mental scars.
"We consider it the day our second life began," Christina Casado-Acorn, said of Dec. 29, 1972. "The three of us toast to life on that day e...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:03:00 GMT |
Flight 401 part 3 |
To grasp the size of the Everglades and their barren quality, it is necessary to imagine a land area half as large as Connecticut, flooded by a foot of water and overgrown with impenetrable sage. On D...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:58:00 GMT |
Flight 401 part 2 |
Immediately after takeoff, Warren Terry, the deadheading pilot who occupied one of the jump seats in the cockpit, moved to an empty seat in first class. This left four passengers in the flight deck fo...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:56:00 GMT |
Flght 401, 1972..... |
On the cold winter evening of December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines aircraft number 310 rested quietly on the dimly lit jet parking area outside New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport's Termin...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:00 GMT |
The History of Eastern Air Lines |
Eastern Airlines can trace it's ancestry back to 1926. The actual name "Eastern" came into being on January 15, 1930 as Eastern Air Transport. E.A.T. Flew the Ford Tri-motor as it's first real passeng...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:43:00 GMT |
