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In 1973, there were rumors among employees of Eastern Airlines that pilots and stewardesses have repeatedly seen company liners ghosts of pilots from flight 401, crashed in December last year. As time went on, the number of pilots and flight attendants who saw dead comrades increased. Excess passenger The flight attendant once again counted the passengers – all right, one excess. Probably he was sitting in the last row the head is a man in the shape of a pilot for Eastern Airlines. This was not nothing out of the ordinary, pilots often flew home in passing flights, but at the same time, the crew of the liner was always informed. Stewardess approached the pilot, greeted and asked to give her name, to put it on the passenger lists. The pilot slowly raised her head – and the girl went cold: Robert Loft was looking at her – the commander of the crew crashed in December Lockheed. “Pass to the commander, let him give the command once again to check the electrical system – in malfunction, “said the ghost and slowly melted. Fatal Flight 401 Photos from open sources
December 29, 1972, Lockheed L1011 of Eastern Airlines, making a flight from New York to Miami, he landed. Commander Robert Loft gave the command to release the chassis, but one of three the indicator lights did not come on. The liner went to the second round. Asking autopilot 660 m high, Loft sent flight engineer Donald Repo to viewing shaft to visually check whether the chassis got out, and he took up checking the indicator.
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Turning out the light bulb, Robert involuntarily turned off the autopilot and the plane began to decline slowly. When the crew noticed this, time there was no longer any way to rectify the situation. At 23:42 the board N310EA crashed into the Everglade Swamp of Florida National Park. Out of 176 people on board, 77 were saved. Loft and Repo were among dead. Dead help the living Pilot reports acted one by one. At the same time, the company’s management is excellent understood that the true number of “meetings” is much larger. Overwhelming the number of Eastern Airlines employees who met ghosts, prefers to remain silent about this for fear of being removed from flights. From the reports it followed that the ghosts of the commander appeared crashed Lockheed Robert Loft and flight engineer Donald Repo. According to reports, Bob Loft appeared in the cabin, talked with pilots and flight attendants, Don Repo – in the technical compartments, preferring Society of Flight Engineers Every time Bob and Don warned about malfunctions in the plane. Warning pilots taken with all seriousness. (Among the pilots there was a story about carriage that ignored the warning and barely reached the nearest airfield on one engine of three) Crews refused to take off and demanded a second technical inspection aircraft, referring to some “hunches.” Management understood that it’s not about “hunches” at all – they too pointedly indicated pilots to a site or system where technicians soon found a defect. Headache Guide Eastern Airlines Guide sought by all means to prevent information leakage beyond company. All crew members regularly undergo medical examination, including a psychiatrist. Disclosure of information, that Eastern Airlines pilots suffer from a massive upset psyche (see ghosts) could seriously undermine the reputation company, become a terrible weapon in the hands of competitors. To pilots it was strictly forbidden to talk about ghost meetings, pages were torn from logbooks, reports were “buried” in secret safes. However, cases multiplied by mid-summer 1973 year, the situation became threatening. Quietly, without any noise was taken decision to initiate an investigation. End of the story “Spas” company employee who noticed the use of parts crashed Lockheed when assembling new cars. Collecting and By organizing the data, he proved that ghosts appeared on sides that had components in their design with a sad liner N310EA. The company management ordered to remove from all aircraft details of the crashed Lockheed and in the spring of 1974 “visits” have stopped. Eastern Airlines Guide Relieved sighed, what can’t be said about the pilots: warnings of the dead they considered friends the best guarantee of flight safety.
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