what amazed me is they said it was unsurvivable. how do you come out of that? december 29, 1972, eastern airlines flight 401 is on the final leg of its flight from jfk to miami international carrying 163 passengers and a crew of 13. ron and lily were just married 20 days before and are you returning home from their honey moon. it was a perfect flight. smooth. calm air. it was just a very dark night. the l-1011 is just five miles from the runway. green lights indicate the main landing gears are down. but the nose gear indicator remains dark. the nose gear showed that it wasn t ether down or up. it didn t say what position it
december 29, 1972, eastern airlines flight 401 is on the final leg of its flight from jfk to miami international carrying 163 passengers and a crew of 13. ron and lily were just married 20 days before and are now returning home from their honey moon. it was a perfect flight. smooth. calm air. it was just a very dark night. the l-1011 is just five miles from the runway. then the pilot extends the landing gears. green lights indicate the main landing gears are down. but the nose gear indicator remains dark. the nose gear showed that it wasn t ether down or up. it didn t say what position it was actually in. so they broke the approach and advised air traffic control that they needed time to sort through a technical problem. unaware of what s going on in the cockpit, flight attendant