Blog Post #3 (Kneice) - Flight 401

On December 29, 1972, a Lockheed Tristar jet flying for Eastern Airlines crashed into the Florida everglades, resulting in 101 fatalities. The reason the flight crashed was because the entire flight crew became distracted with a faulty landing gear light, and they failed to realize that the autopilot quit working. This resulted in the airplane slowly losing altitude and crashing. The more interesting part about this whole ordeal is that the ghosts of the pilot (Bob Loft) and the flight engineer (Don Repo) are claimed to have been seen on other Eastern Airlines planes. Parts from the crashed plane were used as replacement parts for some other Tristar jets, and there have been over 20 sightings of the ghosts of the two men on those planes. The general report is that they watch over all and take care of all of the flights in which their plane's parts are now residing. These examples include:
-The vice president of Eastern Airlines was speaking with a man whom he presumed to be the pilot of the plane, and only later realized he was speaking with Loft.
-Two flight attendants and the captain of a plane were speaking with a man that they recognized to be Loft, and then watched him vanish before their eyes, leaving them visibly shaking.
-A female passenger asked a flight attendant about the unresponsive gentleman sitting next to her in an Eastern Airlines uniform, and the two of them, along with other passengers, watched the man then disappear into thin air. The passengers were able to identify the man when shown a picture, naming him to be Bob Loft.
-A flight attendant observed a man fixing the galley oven (whom she later recognized to be Repo), and after the oven was fixed, the flight engineer claimed that he hadn't yet fixed it.
-Three flight attendants observed the face of Repo in a galley oven, warning them to watch out for fires on board the plane. That plane's last leg of it's flight was cancelled due to serious engine trouble.

I personally don't believe in ghosts, but I think that this was an incredibly interesting topic to research! I didn't know what to write about so I just googled planes and ghosts, and this story had a lot of hits. I'm glad I found it!

http://www.near-death.com/ghosts.html