EAL Flight 401 | How a True Crime Crash Became a Haunting in the Sky
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What happened on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 and why is it considered a true‑crime crash?
On December 29, 1972, a passenger airline was en route to its destination in Miami, Florida. What was supposed to be an uneventful flight took a turn for the horrific when the plane crashed into the Florida Everglades. Soon after, haunting tales of ghosts in the sky plagued the airline as salvaged pieces of the wrecked plane returned to service on other aircraft. Today, we dice. The tragic story and the paranormal legacy of Eastern Airlines Flight 401. This is Red Web.
Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown. I am your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.
Look, I understand if you still have pieces that are salvageable and usable because they're ex they could be expensive, they could be pricey, and I get profit margins and everything. Sure. Doesn't mean I like it. Uh-huh. I just okay. I would feel uneasy being flown in a plane that has used parts from a plane that had an accident.
Yeah. You're like, is that a strong piece or is that a piece that was kind of part of the puzzle that caused the crash?
Yeah, that we You don't know, but you gotta trust. Bang this piece back into place, into shape. Like how much of it had to be replaced? Uh-huh. I just uh that makes you feel so uneasy. But I'm sure stuff like that happens and you just don't know it, right?
Yeah, no, I I suppose so. And I think that'll be the cornerstone to kind of like again, we have a true crime case here that is solved, so it's a little bit of a of uh a palate cleanser, as I kind of say, as we come out of some heavy ones, some long episodes. It's nice to have a true crime that is resolved. We know what happens, we know what the error is, but then of course the season is upon us. Halloween and October are right around the bend, and all month. We're covering cases that kind of keep a foothold in the paranormal. And so we're kicking it off with that. So it's always interesting how something that's more true crime can then have something that is paranormal. And so I'm curious then, how many of the eyewitness accounts of ghouls and ghosts flying through the skies?
Because you don't often hear about haunted planes. You don't. How many of those are because they knew about these salvage pieces? And how many of them are like kind of coincidental? But how would they know about the salvage pieces? If they were part of the crew.
crew part of the ship. Is it just the crew that no? I mean that is it just the crew that had sightings?
It seems we'll get into the various different encounters over the course of various different planes. Interesting. Um, but ultimately, yeah, it does seem that these sightings of the paranormal, these ghosts, are more focused on captains, flight attendants, and things like that. And yeah, we'll we'll break it down. I don't think we have passengers necessarily. necessarily coming forward seeing them. So uh you know what? We're kind of coming out of the gate a little hot here. I see what you're after. I mean I'll do you know speaks for itself. I'm just you know what you're just putting out you're putting on the table I just ask a
question, you know, and that's uh and we're here now. And we're here, you know,
I put a piece of pie on the table and if it's appetizing,
you have a little bit of the pie. Just a little bit of the pie, and now I question the pie.
And now I question the pie. Yeah, dude, I don't know. It it's like it makes sense. If there's salvageable parts, you gotta use them. But it does make me wonder. It's the same line of thinking I have about all my Blu-rays. They're from estate sales in auctions. And I'm like, do I have a bunch of haunted like ghoul tapes? And how many ghosts are contained? Because these are from several different auctions. How many how many ghosts do I have back here? Ooh, if you got a lung track. Transplant, could that be haunted? You know what I mean? Like I mean, at this point, what can't be haunted? That's a great question.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 and why is it considered a true‑crime crash?
0:02–16:53
2
Who were the flight crew and what experience did they bring to the flight?
16:53–50:50
3
Why did the nose‑landing‑gear light stay off and how did the crew try to fix it?
50:50–58:20
4
How did the autopilot disengage and what role did the yoke bump play in the accident?
58:20–1:06:21
Speakers
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