Podcast appearances and mentions of Frank Borman

In this episode of Flying Magazine's "I learned about flying from that" podcast, host Rob Reider speaks with Tim Kurrek about a truly challenging incident that occurred over 20 years ago. Tim, a longtime instructor with extensive tailwheel and glider experience, was on what should have been a routine flight in IMC in his trusted Cessna 180 when the engine suddenly and unexpectedly quit. With no autopilot and the gyros spooling down, Tim was immediately thrust into a situation requiring proficient hand flying and quick thinking. After declaring the engine failure and contacting NorCal, he began troubleshooting while maintaining his best glide speed. However, battling heavy rain and downdrafts, Tim realized his descent rate was higher than expected, and he wouldn't make the initial airport NorCal vectored him towards, which was surrounded by suburbia. This critical realization forced a rapid decision and a change of course towards what he hoped would be more suitable terrain. Breaking out of the clouds at a low altitude, he faced the daunting task of selecting and landing on an unconventional off-airport site under challenging muddy and crosswind conditions. The landing, while successful in preserving life and aircraft integrity, presented its own immediate set of problems with the aircraft sinking into the mud. What followed involved navigating interactions with a gruff local farmer, law enforcement, and the FAA, all while trying to understand the mysterious engine failure. Ultimately, the cause of the engine issue was identified, and the challenging process of recovering the aircraft from the field, with the farmer's reluctant assistance, became another chapter in the story. Tim shares the powerful lessons learned about the importance of aircraft knowledge, maintaining pilot proficiency, critical situational awareness, and the absolute necessity of pre-planning flights, even IFR ones, with VFR charts to understand the ground below. His experience vividly illustrates astronaut Frank Borman's quote: "A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill".

La missione Apollo 8 è stata lanciata il 21 dicembre 1968.

CTL Script/ Top Stories of March 14th Publish Date: March 14th   Pre-Roll: From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Award-Winning Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast  Today is Friday, March 14th and Happy Birthday to Frank Borman ***03.14.25 - BIRTHDAY – FRANK BORMAN*** I’m Peyton Spurlock and here are the stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Times Journal Thomas, Weatherby and Treadaway to Host Town Hall March 20 Cherokee Sheriff's Office Warning Residents About Text Scam Buckle Coming to Woodstock's Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta Plus, Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on eggs We’ll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast, and if you’re looking for Community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  Commercial: Shamrock Shuffle STORY 1: Thomas, Weatherby and Treadaway to Host Town Hall March 20 State Rep. Brad Thomas, Cherokee County Commissioner Richard Weatherby, and District Attorney Susan Treadaway will host a town hall meeting on March 20 in Hickory Flat. The event, set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Historic Hickory Flat Gymnasium near Canton, will provide updates on county and state issues. STORY 2: Cherokee Sheriff's Office Warning Residents About Text Scam The Cherokee Sheriff's Office is alerting residents about a scam involving text messages demanding payment for unpaid tolls, with some claiming to be from Peach Pass. Authorities emphasize that toll agencies do not request payments via text and urge residents not to click on any links in these messages. STORY 3: Buckle Coming to Woodstock's Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta The Buckle, Inc. is relocating its store from Town Center at Cobb to The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in Woodstock, opening April 1. Known for its wide selection of denim and over 200 fashion brands, including BKE, Levi’s, and Free People, Buckle also offers services like free hemming, personal styling, and rewards programs. The retailer operates 440 stores across 42 states, with career opportunities available at buckle.jobs. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info.    Break: STORY 4: Bill Would Make Driver’s License on a Smartphone Official for Georgia Police Georgia's House Bill 296, which would require police to accept digital driver’s licenses during traffic stops, is advancing through the Senate after passing the House with bipartisan support. The bill aims to modernize identification, allowing drivers to use licenses stored in Apple or Google Wallets, already used by 450,000 Georgians. It excludes use at polling places and bars, addressing election security concerns. Law enforcement agencies must equip officers with devices to validate digital licenses by 2027. Traditional licenses remain valid, and drivers are advised to carry both forms of ID. STORY 5: Woodstock Looks to Establish Paid Parking Areas Downtown Woodstock leaders are moving forward with plans to introduce paid parking zones in downtown, primarily affecting street parking. On March 10, the City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to establish paid parking, with a final vote set for March 24. Mayor Michael Caldwell emphasized that the city’s parking deck, with 633 spaces, will remain free. The plan aims to improve parking turnover and support local businesses. Proposed zones include 287 spaces out of 1,509 total downtown spaces, with fees capped at $2/hour and a three-hour limit. If approved, implementation is expected by April 15, with public input opportunities beforehand. 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After circling the Moon ten times on Christmas Eve, it was time for Apollo 8 to come home.

Leitura bíblica do dia: Isaías 55:6-13 Plano de leitura anual: Habacuque 1-3, Apocalipse 15 Já fez seu devocional hoje? Aproveite e marque um amigo para fazer junto com você! Confira: Na véspera de Natal de 1968, os astronautas da Apollo 8 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell e Bill Anders tornaram-se os primeiros a orbitar a Lua. Enquanto faziam isso, compartilhavam imagens da Lua e da Terra. Em uma transmissão, revezaram-se lendo Gênesis 1. Na celebração do 40º aniversário, Borman disse: “Fomos informados de que na véspera de Natal teríamos o maior público que já tinha ouvido uma voz humana. E as únicas instruções que recebemos da NASA foram as de fazer algo apropriado”. Os versículos lidos pelos astronautas da Apollo 8 ainda plantam sementes da verdade no coração dos que ouvem a histórica gravação. Por meio do profeta Isaías, Deus diz: “Venham a mim com os ouvidos bem abertos; escutem, e encontrarão vida” (Isaías 55:3). Revelando Sua livre oferta de salvação, Ele nos convida ao afastamento do pecado e a receber Sua misericórdia e perdão (vv.6-7). Ele declara a autoridade divina de Seus pensamentos e Suas ações, que são muito vastos para realmente entendermos (vv.8-9). Ainda assim, Deus nos dá a oportunidade de compartilhar Suas palavras transformadoras, que apontam para Jesus, e afirmam que Ele é responsável pelo crescimento espiritual do Seu povo (vv.10-13). O Espírito Santo nos ajuda a compartilhar o evangelho enquanto o Pai cumpre todas as Suas promessas em Seu tempo e ritmo. Por:Xochitl Dixon

It was 1968, and America was mired in a war with Vietnam, racial violence was exploding in cities, and two public figures had been assassinated. A year before, fire had taken the lives of three astronauts on the launchpad, and the idea of going to the moon seemed like a pipe dream. Nonetheless, Apollo 8 managed to launch a few days before Christmas. It became the first manned mission to orbit the moon. The flight crew, Borman, Anders, and Lovell—all men of faith—broadcast a Christmas Eve message: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). At the time, it was the most watched TV event in the world, and millions shared the God’s-eye view of Earth in a now iconic photo. Frank Borman finished the reading: “And God saw that it was good” (v. 10). Sometimes it’s hard to look at ourselves, all the hardships we’re mired in, and see anything that’s good. But we might return to the story of creation and see God’s view of us: “In the image of God he created them” (v. 27). Let’s pair that with another divine-eye view: “For God so loved the world” (John 3:16). Today, remember that God created you, sees the good despite the sin, and loves the you He created.

My special guest is L.A. Marzulli who's here to discuss what he thinks the alien phenomena really is and why everyone should be worried.     This book exposes the UFO phenomena, alien abductions, cattle mutilations, alien implants, and direct contact. It postulates that these are interdimensional beings not entities from another planet. It further exposes what may be the coming great deception as prophesied in the Bible.   Some sightings involving astronauts or NASA include: During the Gemini 4 mission, pilot Jim McDivitt spotted an object that he described as a "white cylindrical shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it." He took two pictures of it. His partner, Ed White, was asleep at the time.[5] McDivitt maintains that it was some unknown but man-made piece of debris, while James Oberg argues that it was most likely the Titan II second stage of the craft.[6] In a transcript of Gemini 7 mission, the astronauts mention a "bogey" which ufologists have claimed was a reference to a UFO.[7] Oberg, based on his trajectory analysis of the mission, describes the astronauts' comments about a "bogey" as referring to booster-associated debris, and not a reference to some sort of UFO.[8] The astronaut who made the comments, Frank Borman, later confirmed that what he saw was not a UFO, and that when he offered to go on the television show Unsolved Mysteries to clarify, the producers told him, "Well, I'm not sure we want you on the program."[7] Within the UFO community, stories have spread that Neil Armstrong was reported to have witnessed multiple UFOs during Apollo 11.[9] An explanation was that the sightings could have been attributed to jettisoned components. Additional stories were accredited to a hoax spread by science fiction writer Otto Binder.[1] Buzz Aldrin says his words were taken out of context from an interview in 2005 about the incident.[3] During a 2005 spacewalk outside the International Space Station, astronaut Leroy Chiao reported seeing lights in a formation he described as "in a line" and "almost like an upside-down check mark".[4] The incident was promoted as a possible UFO sighting in the television series Are We Alone?.[4]Chiao later identified the lights as being from fishing boats "hundreds of miles below".[4] In August 2013, according to NASA TV, astronaut Christopher Cassidy saw a UFO float past the International Space Station near its Progress 52 cargo ship.[10] It was soon identified by Russian flight controllers as an antenna cover from the Zvezda service module.[10] On August 19, 2020, Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner posted a video on Twitter featuring UFOs on a time lapse he recorded of the Aurora Australis. Vagner dubbed the objects "space guests" with Roscosmos quote tweeting Vagner to say “An interesting and at the same time mysterious video made by the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Ivan Wagner from the International Space Station.”Follow Our Other ShowsFollow UFO WitnessesFollow Crime Watch WeeklyFollow Paranormal FearsFollow Seven: Disturbing Chronicle StoriesJoin our Patreon for ad-free listening and more bonus content.Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradioFollow us on TikTok mysteriousradioTikTok Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio

Le vendredi 7 juin, l'astronaute emblématique de la Nasa, William Anders, est tragiquement décédé dans un accident d'avion près des îles San Juan, à environ 150 km de Seattle, dans l'État de Washington, aux États-Unis. Il avait 90 ans. Sa disparition laisse derrière lui un héritage indélébile dans l'exploration spatiale.Né le 17 octobre 1933 à Hong Kong, Anders commence sa carrière en tant que diplômé de l'Académie navale des États-Unis en 1955. Pilote de chasse pour l'Air Defense Command en Californie et en Islande, il a été sélectionné comme astronaute de la Nasa en 1964, devenant pilote de réserve pour la mission Gemini 11 en 1966. Cependant, c'est lors de la mission Apollo 8 en décembre 1968 que sa carrière atteint son apogée. Aux côtés de Jim Lovell et du commandant Frank Borman, Anders a été l'un des premiers humains à orbiter autour de la Lune. C'est à cette occasion qu'il a capturé la célèbre photo intitulée "Lever de Terre", symbolisant la fragilité et la beauté de notre planète vue depuis l'espace.« Nous avons fait tout ce chemin pour explorer la Lune, et la chose la plus importante est que nous avons découvert la Terre », avait-il déclaré à propos de cette image emblématique. « Cela m'a fait comprendre que la Terre était petite, délicate et qu'elle n'était pas le centre de l'univers », avait-il ajouté. L'administrateur de la Nasa, Bill Nelson, a rendu un hommage vibrant à William Anders, saluant sa contribution exceptionnelle au programme spatial et son influence inspirante sur les générations futures d'astronautes. Alors que l'Amérique se prépare à renvoyer des astronautes sur la Lune dans le cadre de la mission Artemis et à explorer Mars, l'héritage de William Anders continuera à guider et à inspirer les explorateurs de l'espace. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

VII De verdad pretende usted, que le cuente respondiendo a 4 preguntas la gran exclusiva mundial, que no he contado a nadie jamás en todos estos años? Edwin Aldrin. Astronauta del Apolo 11. Estas son las palabras que dijo el astronauta a un periodista en España. Os imaginais la reacción que podría provocar que se diera al planeta tierra, que hay vida extraterrestre y que estamos siendo visitados por ellos desde hace siglos, tal vez milenios? Muchas personas en todo el mundo probablemente se sentirían fascinadas por la idea de que no estamos solos en el universo. Otras podrían experimentar miedo e incertidumbre sobre las intenciones de los extraterrestres. Las representaciones en la cultura popular han variado desde extraterrestres amigables hasta invasores hostiles, lo que podría influir en las reacciones de las personas. Las respuestas religiosas podrían variar significativamente. Algunas religiones podrían reinterpretar sus enseñanzas para incorporar la existencia de vida extraterrestre, mientras que otras podrían enfrentar desafíos para reconciliar esta idea con sus creencias existentes sobre la creación y el lugar de la humanidad en el universo. Las sectas crecerían a diario también. A nivel político, la revelación de la existencia de vida extraterrestre probablemente tendría un impacto significativo en las relaciones internacionales y la geopolítica. Podría generar tensiones entre los países sobre cómo abordar esta nueva realidad, incluidas cuestiones como la diplomacia interplanetaria, la seguridad nacional y la regulación de la tecnología extraterrestre. En general, la revelación de la existencia de vida extraterrestre tendría profundas implicaciones sociales, culturales, políticas y religiosas en todo el mundo, y probablemente desencadenaría un intenso debate y reflexión sobre nuestro lugar en el universo. Hoy os traigo varios testigos, pilotos y astronautas que han visto en primera persona a naves, luces y extraños objetos volando cerca de ellos. El primero del que os hablo es Kenneth Arnold. Conocido por su famoso avamiento de objetos voladores no identificados (NIs) el 24 de junio de 1947 en el estado de Washington. Mientras volaba cerca del Rainier en su avión privado, Arnold aseguró haber visto nueve objetos brillantes en forma de disco moviéndose a gran velocidad en el cielo. Estimó que su velocidad era de alrededor de 1,700 millas por hora, mucho más rápida que cualquier aeronave conocida en ese momento… Otros casos son: 17 Noviembre de 1986. Vuelo 1628 de las líneas japonesas. Es un Boeing 747. Hace el vuelo París, Tokio. Se encuentra sobrevolando la tundra de Alaska… A una altitud de más de 10.000 metros A las 17:11 el capitán Kenju Terauchi con 30 años de experiencia pilotando, ve a 600 metros bajo su avión, tres luces circulares. 30 de Enero de 1987. Solo dos meses después del informe del avión nipón, en la misma zona, en los mismos cielos de Alaska, vuelve a ocurrir algo extraño. Un avión de la fuerza aérea KC135 informa lo que le está ocurriendo con un OVNI a 6000 metros de altura. Tan solo un día después del encuentro del KC135 con un Ovni, ocurre otra cosa. 2 pilotos de las lineas 53 de Alaska informan que están siendo seguidos por 2 objetos inmensos, 2 gigantes de aspecto discoidal le siguen a gran velocidad. Torre de control les dice que sólo los tienen a ellos en pantalla. Los nervios de los pilotos se captan en los audios registrados. 18 de Noviembre de 1995. El avión 405 de Lufhansa ve un Ovni al despegar de Nueva York. Mientras, un Air Buss A 340 sale también desde esa vertical dirección Frankfurt, Alemania. Tan solo unos minutos después, hace una llamada a control de Boston. Dice que a menos de 1 km, hay un Objeto Volador que no sabe identificar. Lo describen como un objeto largo y cilíndrico, con una luz muy potente en la parte delantera. A su vez, un 747 de la British Airways que venía de Londres también logra ver al extraño objeto. 1 de noviembre de 1979. Un vuelo comercial de la empresa española(TAE), con 109 pasajeros, hace un aterrizaje de emergencia en el aeropuerto de Manises (Valencia) cuando sobrevolaba Ibiza. 4 de Diceimbre de 1965 Los astronautas del Gemini 7 Frank Borman y James Novel, pilotos de pruebas militares, se encuentran realizando pruebas rutinarias en la vertical de Hawai. Ambos ven un objeto por encima de su cápsula. James McDivitt el astronauta de la NASA que comandó las misiones Gemini IV y Apolo 9 también vio algo que no pudo explicar. El astronauta Leroy Chiao informó que en el año 2005, junto con el astronauta ruso Salizhan Sharípov, vio algo extraño. Story Musgrave. Ha dicho alguna vez, que vio una especie de tubos con su propio sistema de propulsión a los que llamó anguilas espaciales. 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In this week's episode, Gary Bauer shares little-known details from NASA's Apollo 8 mission that took its three astronaut crew 10 orbits around the moon over six days. Although Crew Commander, Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot, Fred W. Haise Jr., and Command Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., accomplished all mission objectives, they are perhaps best remembered for their first-of-its-kind Christmas Eve telecast from outer space. The crew read verses from the first chapter of Genesis and then wished viewers, “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.” As there is nothing new under the sun, this event, which was beloved by the vast majority of Americans, infuriated the late Atheist and Separationist, Madalyn Murray O'Hair so much that she sued NASA administrator Thomas Paine and the U.S. government, arguing that the astronauts violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. To quote a famous repetitive refrain from the late author Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse-Five seems apropos: “And so it goes…”

In this week's episode, Gary Bauer shares little-known details from NASA's Apollo 8 mission that took its three astronaut crew 10 orbits around the moon over six days. Although Crew Commander, Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot, Fred W. Haise Jr., and Command Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., accomplished all mission objectives, they are perhaps best remembered for their first-of-its-kind Christmas Eve telecast from outer space. The crew read verses from the first chapter of Genesis and then wished viewers, “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.” As there is nothing new under the sun, this event, which was beloved by the vast majority of Americans, infuriated the late Atheist and Separationist, Madalyn Murray O'Hair so much that she sued NASA administrator Thomas Paine and the U.S. government, arguing that the astronauts violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. To quote a famous repetitive refrain from the late author Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse-Five seems apropos: “And so it goes…”

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Here are some historical events that occurred on December 24th:1814: The Treaty of Ghent was signed, officially ending the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.1865: Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.1906: Canadian physicist Reginald Fessenden became the first person to broadcast music and entertainment by radio.1968: The Apollo 8 spacecraft, with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, entered orbit around the moon.1979: The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, leading to a protracted conflict.1990: The first successful trial run of the system that would become the World Wide Web took place, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee.2000: The Texas Seven, a group of prisoners, escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, sparking a massive manhunt.2013: Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, made landfall in the Philippines.These events span a range of historical periods and reflect the diversity of significant occurrences on December 24th throughout history.Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/a-to-z-this-day-in-world-history-december-24th/Social Media:WeChat account ID: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ADonate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/donationsRobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Piano_Rolls_from_archiveorg/ScottJoplin-RagtimeDance1906/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With the world watching the Apollo 8 astronauts became the first humans to orbit another world.

It's a seasonal special from Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham with a previously un-broadcast interview with Apollo-era legend Frank Borman. Commander of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, Colonel Borman passed away in November 2023 aged 95. His Apollo 8 mission was the first manned mission to the Moon, where the crew captured the famous Earthrise image and read from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve 1968. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

It's a seasonal special from Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham with a previously unbroadcast interview with Apollo-era legend Frank Borman. Commander of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, Colonel Borman passed away in November 2023 aged 95. His Apollo 8 mission was the first manned mission to the Moon, where the crew captured the famous Earthrise image and read from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve 1968. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Over the last few weeks we have lost to US astronauts from the golden age of space exploration - Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman - and since I spent 42 weeks on the space race, I felt it was appropriate to take the time to eulogize those two explorers today. If you listen to end, you can find out the connection between Frank Borman, Buzz Aldrin, and one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, Led Zeppelin.The Space Race series introduction music is Lift Off by kennysvoice.As always, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhosts·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/ 

Here are some historical events that occurred on December 4:1110: The Kingdom of Jerusalem captured Sidon during the Crusades.1783: General George Washington bid farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City after the American Revolution.1829: The first well-recorded game of baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada.1918: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sailed for the Versailles Peace Conference in France, becoming the first sitting president to travel to Europe.1945: The United States Senate approved the participation in the United Nations.1965: The Gemini 7 spacecraft was launched with astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.1978: The Soviet Union signed a protocol to join the SALT II arms limitation treaty with the United States.1991: Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) ceased its operations.1998: The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, was launched.2015: The Paris Agreement, a global climate accord, was adopted by 195 countries at the COP21 summit.These are just a few notable events that happened on December 4 throughout history. Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/a-to-z-this-day-in-world-history-december-4th/Social Media:WeChat account ID: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ADonate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/donationsRobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Piano_Rolls_from_archiveorg/ScottJoplin-RagtimeDance1906/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode, we kick things off with well wishes to our great friends at Ecliptic Brewing, who served up the last pints at their brewpub in November. We continue discussion with a review of team Eclipse on Tap's end-of-season mountain bike race, Iceman. In the second half, we pay our respects to the late Apollo-era legends, Frank Borman & Ken Mattingly. We wrap with updates on the paper-mache alien saga that is still somehow making headlines. Available now on your favorite podcast platforms. Give us a follow on our social media pages at @eclipseontap [Episode recorded live at Pub39A Studios on 11/11/23. Produced by Matt Deighton]

Our Current Events Show # 182 - Join your host Jan Landy and his amazingly knowledgeable panel of friends for an entertaining robust discussion offering opinions on current events and life in general.  Good For A Few Laughs And More Satisfying Than Seeing A Therapist while sharing your opinions and learning about what is happening in our world and how it affects us. Join the panel and offer your opinion with us on Zoom every Wednesday at 5 PM - Pacific (UTC-7)/ 8 PM EDT  Sign up for our LinkedIn discussion group Friends of the RoundTable https://lnkd.in/gHE5vCC7 Topics Discussed (11/15/2023): NASA, FRANK BORMAN, ASTRONAUTS, LAINEY WILSON GRAMMIES, SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY 2023, CHILI'S HIRES R&B GROUP BOYZ II MEN, SELF-CHECKOUT LANES, WORLD POPULATION, APPLESAUCE RECALL, PATRICK MAHOMES, PINK TO GIVE AWAY 2,000 BANNED BOOKS, ICELAND VOLCANO, OXFORD STUDY ON HEART ATTACKS, INDISPENSABLE APPS FOR AUDIO ENGINEERS

Jason gives you a quick overview of Frank Borman, Part 2.Read the essay here: https://historywiththeszilagyis.org/hwts213 Find us on Twitter:The Network: @BQNPodcasts The Show: @HistorySzilagyi. Chrissie: @TheGoddessLivia. Jason: @JasonDarkElf.Send topic suggestions via Twitter or on our Facebook page History with the Szilagyis.History with the Szilagyis is supported by our patrons: PatiSusan Capuzzi-De ClerckLaura DullKris HillVince LockeJoin these wonderful supporters by visiting patreon.com/historywiththeszilagyis. The BQN Podcast Collective is brought to you by our listeners. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help to produce this podcast and the many others on our network! You can join this illustrious list by becoming a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/BQN

Even more sad news this week. On November 7th, Frank Bowman, commander of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 passed away at the age of 95. One of the true greats in space history. We speak to his friend Chris Henry from the EAA museum in Oshkosh to find out more about the man and to celebrate his life.100 Patreons By Show 200: https://www.patreon.com/SpaceandthingsChris Henry:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-henry-93110997/The EAA Museum:https://www.eaa.org/eaa-museum Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/Show notes include links to all articles mentioned and full details of our guests and links to what caught our eye this week.Image Credits: NASASpace and Things:X: https://www.twitter.com/spaceandthings1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaceandthingspodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceandthingspodcast/Merch and Info: https://www.spaceandthingspodcast.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/SpaceandthingsBusiness Enquiries: info@andthingsproductions.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/spaceandthings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adásunkban az elmúlt héten elhunyt legendás Apollo-űrhajós, Frank Borman életéről és munkásságáról emlékezünk meg. Az emberről, aki ötéves kora óta szinte semmi mást nem akart csak repülni, de akinek mégis mindig a kötelesség volt az első. Az űrhajósról, aki elsőként bizonyította be, hogy lehetséges két hétig élni az űrben, aki először pillanthatta meg társaival a Hold túlsó oldalát, és aki végül meggyőzte a Kongresszust arról, hogy adjanak az űrprogramnak még egy esélyt. https://parallaxis.blog.hu/2023/11/16/sokol_ep171 https://youtu.be/ev4s9FeJfqg A Parallaxis Patreon oldalán támogatóink számára még a premier előtt elérhetővé tesszük podcastjeink legújabb epizódját! https://www.patreon.com/parallaxis Podcastjeink epizódjai elérhetőek Facebookon, Soundcloud- és YouTube-csatornánkon, valamint Google Podcasts-en, iTunes-on és Spotify-on is! Kattints és válassz platformot! https://parallaxis.blog.hu/2021/07/16/podcast_platformok

Jason gives you a quick overview of Frank Borman, Part 1.Read the essay here: https://historywiththeszilagyis.org/hwts212 Find us on Twitter:The Network: @BQNPodcasts The Show: @HistorySzilagyi. Chrissie: @TheGoddessLivia. Jason: @JasonDarkElf.Send topic suggestions via Twitter or on our Facebook page History with the Szilagyis.History with the Szilagyis is supported by our patrons:PatiSusan Capuzzi-De ClerckLaura DullKris HillVince LockeJoin these wonderful supporters by visiting patreon.com/historywiththeszilagyis. The BQN Podcast Collective is brought to you by our listeners. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help to produce this podcast and the many others on our network! You can join this illustrious list by becoming a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/BQN

Israeli forces battle Hamas nearby. They say they've left a corridor open for people to flee, and will help evacuate babies on Sunday. Also: A key bridge in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has been destroyed, and remembering Frank Borman, the man who commanded the first manned mission to circle the Moon, who has died at the age of 95.

#SPACEX: Starship unlikely in November. Frank Borman RIP.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/frank-borman-an-old-fashioned-american-of-the-highest-order-passes-away-at-95/

Remembering the astronaut who made Christmas Eve History

Wrap up of the week's news; astronaut Frank Borman passes, hot topics w/ MikeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sanctuary city blues...Happy # 248 US Marines....Frank Borman (1928-2023)...And other stories.. ...Check our blog....and follow our friend Carlos Guedes......  

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 9th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): Steam Deck OLEDOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208334&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:27): What I learned getting acquired by GoogleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207024&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:24): You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claimOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:21): MonaspaceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210574&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:05): Steve Wozniak suffers minor strokeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:32): Servo announces grant from the NLnet FoundationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:23): You Win or You LearnOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38205357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:25): Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212749&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:13): It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:10): Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this againOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38202403&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

HOUR 1Tom discusses the awful weather and poor roads in Anchorage yesterday as he drove to midtownFOX News' Trey Yingst reports from southern Israel with the latest on the IDF's offensive and proxy attacks on U.S. military bases. / (FOX News) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82HJoNwbeIWest Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2024. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211907129/joe-manchin-retireThe Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a new video of two hostages as talks intensify to release the 239 hostages still held in Gaza. (ABC News) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJE0qlf7HPwPresident Joe Biden threw his support behind the United Auto Workers' efforts to unionize employees at Tesla Inc. and Toyota Motor Corp. in the wake of the labor group's historic contract with Detroit's Big Three automakers. / (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-09/biden-supports-uaw-organizing-tesla-toyota-workers?Frank Borman, who commanded two early NASA missions including the first to orbit the moon, has died at age 95. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/953342565/nasa-apollo-gemini-astronaut-frank-borman-diesThe NTSB chief says a shortage of air traffic controllers is likely contributing to the growing number of planes involved in near collisions. (ABC News) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Kamuf2hvcState Representative Kevin McCabeHOUR 2Inmate death number is a growing problem in Alaska / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/11/10/29-year-olds-dont-die-no-reason-conflicting-look-number-inmate-deaths-alaska/Adam Holz from 'Plugged In' reviews "The Marvels" and "Journey to Bethlehem"Todd Smoldon from Governor Dunleavy's Mat-Su Office Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson on his snow and winter weather emergency proclamation 

Two American heroes have died.  Frank Borman, who led the first Lunar Mission on Apollo 8 and Thomas (TK) Mattingly, Command Module Pilot on Apollo 16.  Join David Denault who will share personal stories about these two astronauts.

durée : 00:53:54 - Affaires sensibles - par : Fabrice Drouelle, Franck COGNARD - Aujourd'hui dans Affaires Sensibles, l'histoire de la mission lunaire Apollo 8. En décembre 1968, les astronautes Frank Borman, James Lovell et Bill Anders s'envolent pour la toute première mission habitée autour de la Lune. Souvent occultée par l'exploit de la mission menée par Neil Armstrong et Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 8 est une mission tout aussi exceptionnelle. Elle est la toute première à faire voyager des êtres humains à plus de 360 000 km de la planète Terre. Fruit de la détermination de la Nasa et de l'Amérique toute entière à gagner une course aux étoiles débutée 10 ans plus tôt, la mission Apollo 8 a marqué l'histoire par son audace, comme par les fabuleuses images qu'elle a rapportées sur Terre. Si ce sont les astronautes d'Apollo 11 les premiers à avoir marché sur la Lune, ce sont bien ceux d**'Apollo 8** qui ont ouvert la voie, partis pour un voyage à l'issue incertaine et sous le regard des habitants de la Terre entière. Un récit documentaire de Gaspard Wallut Invité : Michel Tognini ancien astronaute et chef du Centre Européen des Astronautes (EAC) Discographie : THE FOUR TOPS Reach out i'll be there (1966) ROSEAUX Walking on the moon 2012 Bertrand BELIN La nouvelle (2022) - invités : Michel TOGNINI - Michel Tognini : astronaute - réalisé par : Stéphane COSME

As the year 1965 ended, astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman were proving that human beings could adapt to the environment of space, having lived there for almost two weeks before successfully returning home. Similarly, the Gemini program and NASA itself were also getting used to a new environment. An environment where they were focussed less on meeting the daily challenges of the Gemini program and more on how to use what they were learning there to help them get to the Moon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we finally get the party together on orbit as Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford in Gemini VIA complete the very first rendezvous with Jim Lovell and Frank Borman in Gemini VII. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines w

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines

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On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders—became the first humans to enter lunar orbit. As they circled the moon ten times, they shared images of the moon and the earth. During a live broadcast, they took turns reading from Genesis 1. At the fortieth anniversary celebration, Borman said, “We were told that on Christmas Eve we would have the largest audience that had ever listened to a human voice. And the only instructions that we got from NASA was to do something appropriate.” The Bible verses spoken by the Apollo 8 astronauts still plant seeds of truth into the listening hearts of people who hear the historical recording. Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord says, “Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live” (Isaiah 55:3). Revealing His free offer of salvation, God invites us to turn from our sin and receive His mercy and forgiveness (vv. 6–7). He declares the divine authority of His thoughts and His actions, which are too vast for us to truly understand (vv. 8–9). Still, He gives us opportunity to share His life-transforming words of Scripture, which point to Jesus, and affirm that He is responsible for the spiritual growth of His people (vv. 10–13). The Holy Spirit helps us share the gospel as the Father fulfills all His promises according to His perfect plan and pace.

Readers will recall that for this year's Thanksgiving message, we turned the page back to 1968 for the proclamation issued that year by President Lyndon Johnson. Even in a time plagued by war, unrest, and division, Johnson reminded the nation to not overlook all that was good. Inspired by the recent success of the Artemis 1 mission to lunar orbit, we will continue the theme of 1968 for our annual holiday message. That year ended with the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon. During their return to Earth, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders broadcast a televised greeting from space that was the most watched television program to that time. As the first humans to ever leave low Earth orbit and thus to be able to look back at our world in its entirety, they had a truly unprecedented vantage from which to bring good tidings to all. Though the words come from a specific religious text and tradition which these men shared, when placed in the context of that epic journey and the unsettled time at home, the underlying message seems to transcend any specific set of beliefs and speak to a perhaps common sense of awe and wonder when faced with the vastness of space and the universe. In that spirit, we share the Apollo 8 message in its written form and as a podcast with the original recording available on the podcatcher of your choice. And so to close the year, we here at War Room wish that you and yours may find a brief distraction from your troubles and a sense of hope and wonder like those of the Apollo 8 astronauts for what is still to come. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! We'll see you in 2023.

The holiday season is always special, but few were more special than Christmas Eve, 1968, when Apollo 8 orbited the moon, with the astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis. Apollo Flight Director Gerald D. "Gerry" Griffin joins us to recall that very special time, and we chat with retired Air Force Colonel Karlton Johnson about NORAD's tracking of Santa. Image credit: NASA Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Gerald D. Griffin and Karlton Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

The holiday season is always special, but few were more special than Christmas Eve, 1968, when Apollo 8 orbited the moon, with the astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis. Apollo Flight Director Gerald D. "Gerry" Griffin joins us to recall that very special time, and we chat with retired Air Force Colonel Karlton Johnson about NORAD's tracking of Santa. Image credit: NASA Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Gerald D. Griffin and Karlton Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE GHOST STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines was forced to remove them from the other planes to stop the spectres reappearing and allow them to rest in peace.Regardless, there were no more reports of apparitions after 1974. Perhaps Loft and his team had finally decided it was time to hang up their uniforms for the final time.The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYParanormal True Alien, Ghosts, Unexplained and Bigfoot Stories 2022TRUE UFO Bigfoot and Ghost Stories

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE GHOST STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines was forced to remove them from the other planes to stop the spectres reappearing and allow them to rest in peace.Regardless, there were no more reports of apparitions after 1974. Perhaps Loft and his team had finally decided it was time to hang up their uniforms for the final time.The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYParanormal True Alien, Ghosts, Unexplained and Bigfoot Stories 2022TRUE UFO, Bigfoot and Ghost Stories

The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE GHOST STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines was forced to remove them from the other planes to stop the spectres reappearing and allow them to rest in peace.Regardless, there were no more reports of apparitions after 1974. Perhaps Loft and his team had finally decided it was time to hang up their uniforms for the final time.The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYParanormal True Alien, Ghosts, Unexplained and Bigfoot Stories 2022TRUE UFO, Bigfoot and Ghost Stories

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The REAL Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYIn December 1972, there was a deadly air crash in Florida's Everglades. But that wasn't the end of the story…It was Christmas 1972 and passengers and crew onboard Eastern Airlines Flight 401 were making the relatively short journey between New York and Florida. They would never arrive.This tragic air crash was the most deadly ever to have occurred in the US at the time and generated heartbreaking stories of loss, heroism and love. However, it also created a ghost story that has never really been explained to this day. Here, we'll take a closer look.A routine flightThe aircraft assigned to Eastern Airlines Flight 401 that December 29th was an L-1011 from Lockheed, often referred to as a Whisperliner due to its quiet engines.It had been cleared for a 9PM departure from New York's JFK airport to Miami, with Captain Robert Loft at the helm and Albert John Stockstill, a former Air Force flier, as his co-pilot.Also on board were 25-year Eastern veteran Donald Louis Repo as engineer and second officer, maintenance specialist Angelo Donadeo, and Warren Terry, who was off-duty but hitching a ride to return from a duty assignment.The manifest listed 153 passengers, but there were in fact 160 on board, as well as the close-knit cabin crew that included 25-year-old Beverly Raposa and her colleague Mercedes ‘Mercy' Ruiz.The flight was uneventful and had crossed the Palmetto Expressway as it cruised over West Palm Beach to Miami, with the captain already having told his passengers the weather in the beach-side city as he made preparations to land.Trouble arisesIt was then, just before 11:40 PM, that a problem arose in the cockpit. Stockstill voiced his concern that a light had not come on to show the landing gear in the plane's nose was lowered as it should be.Loft tried again to lower it, but nothing had apparently happened. The crew made a U-turn and told air traffic controllers they would circle again as they attempted to ensure the landing gear was correctly lowered.They put the aircraft on autopilot and Loft climbed down into the avionics bay, a space beneath the flight deck, to see if he could personally check what was going on. Meanwhile, the others struggled with the cockpit display to see if the fault lay with one of its tiny light bulbs.Suddenly, the cockpit voice recorder captured a chilling phrase from Stockstill:“We did something to the altitude.”The plane should have been at 2,000 ft, but it had somehow dropped dramatically. A moment later, the voice recorder captured Loft's voice:“Hey, what's happening here?”The phrase would be the last communication to come from Flight 401.Devastating crash — and desperate rescue missionAt 11:43 PM, Miami air traffic control got a message from another aircraft to say they had seen an explosion close by. Flight 401 had crashed in the Everglades at 227 miles per hour, cartwheeling into the swampy water after the left wingtip hit the ground first.The plane broke up into several sections upon impact and travelled more than a third of a mile before finally coming to a halt.First on the scene was a local man named Robert Marquis, who had been trapping frogs with a friend on an airboat when he saw an orange fireball and knew instantly he was witnessing a plane crash. He turned his pleasure craft and swung towards the crash site, as did the Coastguard on a nearby helicopter.Meanwhile, flight attendant Beverly Raposa had survived the crash and found herself flung into the mud of the Everglades. In a stoic display of professionalism, she gathered other survivors around her and shouted for more to come towards the sound of her voice.After realising she was covered in jet fuel, she implored everyone not to strike matches for light and sang Christmas carols in a bid to keep their spirits up.“These were my people. They were my responsibility, and this was my job as a flight attendant,” she later told the Official Eastern Airlines Flight 401 website.The Coastguard's helicopter tracked down the survivors after Mr Marquis swung his lamp around to attract attention, and rescue vehicles began to gather them up via a flood control levee.Aftermath and investigationIn total, 75 passengers and crew survived. The eventual death toll would be 103, with some succumbing to their wounds after the event. Many drowned in the water of the Everglades before rescuers could reach them.Stockstill was killed on impact and Captain Loft died in the wreckage of the flight deck. Repo survived the initial crash, but died later in hospital. Technical officer Donadeo, who was in the avionics bay with Repo when the plane went down, survived. Two of the ten flight attendants also perished.An investigation was immediately launched into what happened that fateful night using the cockpit voice recorder. It was found that Stockstill had put the plane on autopilot after attempting to lower the landing gear and that it had continued its trajectory for 80 seconds.A sudden descent of 100 ft occurred, followed by two minutes of steady flight. After this, the aircraft began to descend so gradually as to be imperceptible before the pilots saw they were far too low. Although they tried to pull up, it was too late and the wing hit the water.Investigators realised the confusion in the cockpit over the landing gear light must have been enough to distract the pilots and mean an altitude warning chime wasn't heard.As to why the aircraft began to descend at all, other Eastern pilots testified to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that their altitude hold function could be disengaged by bumping the control column.The NTSB therefore theorised that Loft had probably nudged the control column as he turned to talk to Repo about going down into the avionics bay to check the landing gear, which accidentally nudged the aircraft into a lower trajectory that it then automatically maintained.In a sad twist, the landing gear was found to be down exactly as it should have been, meaning the crash was effectively caused by two burnt out light bulbs.Officially, the NTSB cited pilot error, adding: “Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.”Eastern Flight 401 was the first jumbo jet to crash and the loss of life was the worst in US civil aviation history at the time.Not the end of the story — ghosts in the machine?However, this wasn't the last that was to be heard of the doomed flight and its lost crew members. It was widely reported that several parts of the aircraft were salvaged from the crash site and returned to the manufacturer to be used again on other L1011s.Soon after, stories began to emerge that passengers and crew members on other Eastern flights were being visited by some of those who had died. At JFK, a boarding crew saw Loft sitting in the flight deck dressed in his uniform. Not realising who he was, they talked to him for a few moments before he allegedly disappeared in front of their eyes. The crew was so shaken that the flight had to be cancelled.On another occasion, a flight engineer saw Don Repo and the apparition told him he had already done the pre-flight checks before he vanished. During a flight from Atlanta to Miami, a crew heard knocking coming from the avionics hold and opened it to see the face of Repo looking back out at them.Perhaps the most startling episode was when a flight attendant on a trip from Mexico City to JFK saw Don Repo's face reflected in an oven door and heard him tell her to beware of fire. As the plane climbed, the engine indeed caught fire and the pilot was forced to shut it down and make an emergency landing back at the airport. Fortunately, no one was hurt.All in all, there were more than 20 incidents in which people reported having seen ghostly apparitions of dead Flight 401 crew members. Sightings had become so commonplace during 1973 that a report was published about them the following year in the US Flight Safety Foundation newsletter.Keen to shut down the paranormal tales, Eastern Airlines is said to have removed all log books in which ghost sightings were recorded and warned employees who perpetuated the stories they could face dismissal.Eastern Air Lines CEO (and former Apollo astronaut) Frank Borman spoke out to say the reports of sightings were “garbage” and a book published in 1980 called From the Captain to the Colonel: An Informal History of Eastern Airlines insisted no parts were ever salvaged from Flight 401 for reuse.In an interview with Eliot Kleinberg of the Palm Beach Post in 1997, Eastern's public relations representative Jim Ashlock also said the ghost stories were made up and that the airline had never hidden flight logs or intimidated witnesses.However, Mr Kleinberg said Don Repo's son Jay had told him he believed the stories about his father's ghost returning. He reportedly claimed he had inexplicably found a pair of Eastern Airlines wings in a Miami hotel room, which he took as a supernatural sign of visitation.Some still insist salvaged parts were behind the sightings of Captain Loft and his dead colleagues months after the loss of flight 401, and that Eastern Airlines was forced to remove them from the other planes to stop the spectres reappearing and allow them to rest in peace.Regardless, there were no more reports of apparitions after 1974. Perhaps Loft and his team had finally decided it was time to hang up their uniforms for the final time.The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 SCARY TRUE STORYRSLASH Paranormal: BEST Of True Alien, Ghosts, Unexplained and Bigfoot Stories 2022TRUE UFO, Bigfoot and Ghost Stories

Today is Brother's Day and Barry reflects on a lesson he learned from his big brother in the midst of a badminton game with a neighbor.  It's also Aviation Maintenance Technician Day and Barry salutes his dad's 40 years with Eastern Airlines, working under company Presidents Eddie Rickenbacker and Frank Borman. 

The Apollo 8 flight was renown in history as the first human spaceflight to reach the moon. The mission's success was a great story itself, but behind it is another tale – a compelling love story of the flight's commander, Frank Borman, and his equally heroic wife, Susan Borman. This real-life drama is captured in the book, Far Side of the Moon. The book's author, Liisa Jorgensen graces the show with her presence in this episode. Liisa opens our eyes to the big lesson that we can learn from her book – something that is definitely applicable to the human condition and that everybody can learn from. We don't usually get to hear from authors who write narrative nonfiction, so this is definitely an interesting conversation. Don't miss it!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! http://aliciadunams.com/