"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Andrew Gideon wrote:

That was the story behind some airline crash in Florida, if memory
serves.

An L-1011. The pilots were descending for approach into Miami. An idiot
light
came on, they started trying to trouble-shoot that, accidentally knocked
the
control column (which turned the autopilot off), and set down in the
glades.

The airline salvaged some of the plane and reused the pieces during
maintenance
of other aircraft in the fleet. The ghost of the flight engineer was said
to
haunt all of the planes that received these parts. I remember that it was
quite
a scandal in Atlanta at the time - a number of people quit the airline.
Eventually all the parts were removed and destroyed.

Years later, the made a movie of the incident. Starred Ernest Borgnine, as
I
recall.

"The Ghost of Flight 401" (1978), a "made for TV" movie.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077610/maindetails

James Randi debunked the Hollyweird/stories that came out of it shortly
after and it was hilarious.

Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO