Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group "The Heritage of CRM": Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group Makes National News

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group Makes National News

Yesterday was exciting for the Eastern Flight 401 Tribute Group. With a huge thank you to Luisa Yanez of the Miami Herald, the word about our gathering to mark the 37th Anniversary of the crash yesterday went from a simple plan to get together and share with locals and to spend time together finishing the day with a nice dinner with our family and friends turned into a wonderful surprise as suddenly we found ourselves in the spotlight with both national attention from the NBC Today Show to many local news outlets including stories in the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel and on several TV stations including the local Fox Station WSVN and the NBC affiliate here, NBC Miami. Below are links to the stories and videos of our day yesterday.

TV/Videos
Today Show: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891#34629551
NBC Miami: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Plane-Crash-Survivors-Reunite-80288617.html
WSVN Fox: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI139861/

Newspaper Articles
Miami Herald: http://pd.miami.com/sp?aff=1100&keywords=flight+401&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
Sun Sentinel: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-flight-401-anniversary-122909,0,533536.story

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UnknownJanuary 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Hi,
I saw the news clip the 29th. I was one of the Ambulance drivers that was first on the scene the night of the crash. I was off and getting ready to climb into bed when I saw the news flash the night of the crash. My attendant was working so I just hopped p and headed to work. I picked him up and we drove out to the 40 mile bend and out the levy to the site. We help pull 2 survivors and then drove out the other end of the levy down Hollywood blvd to Memorial Hospital. Almost burned up the Caddy getting there. We were working for Randle Eastern Ambulance while we were in school.
If we would have known about the meeting we would have been there. Karl is now physician living in Ocala and I am a pharmacist and still live in S Fl.
Please contact me if there is another get together. Stuart Whiteman swhite7865@comcast.net
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The December 29th 1972 Crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Lockheed L-1011 N310EA (s/n 1011)

This Blogspot is dedicated to the those who died, those who survived and the countless of lives that were touched and effected even to this day by the crash of Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011-1, aircraft N310EA, while operating as flight 401 from (JFK) to (MIA) on the night of December 29th 1972. The crash of flight 401 became the world's first jumbo jet airliner accident when it crashed into the Florida Everglades. Despite the tremendous lost from the ashes of Flight 401 arose the training / standard concept known through out and among the worlds airlines and crews as Crew Resource Management (CRM). Our effort is to raise awarness to the crash, its established heritage to CRM and toward the creation of a Memorial to those who became bright stars among the dark Decemeber Florida Sky on that fateful night.

Air Boats and Helicopters The Tools of The First Responders in 1972

A great many lives rescued on the night of the December 29th 1972 crash are owed to the use of Air Boats and Helicopters. One notable man who was the first at the site was Bullfrog "Bud" Marquis.
Bud's presence out there that night while hunting for frogs resulted in the saving of many lives. HH-52A Helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station at Opa Locka Airport and H-34J's "Choctaw" from the U.S.A.F 301th Air Reserve Rescue Squadron (ARRS) based at Homestead Air Force
Base also provided the life saving Air Rescue capabilities.

Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group "The Heritage of CRM"

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group Makes National News

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