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Several books were written about the ghost sightings on Flight 401, following a Lockheed 1011 crash in Florida. It was referenced as a story where multiple witnesses saw apparitions of a dead flight engineer.
I mean what was that stewardess seeing the ghost of Flight 401 when they had a crash of a Lockheed 1011 in a swamp in Florida, the crash killed 400 people, they took the wreck, they put it into a ware...
— Episode: A Conversation with Dan Aykroyd (Part 2)
Episode: A Conversation with Dan Aykroyd (Part 2)
Several books were written about the ghost sightings on Flight 401, following a Lockheed 1011 crash in Florida. It was referenced as a story where multiple witnesses saw apparitions of a dead flight engineer.
I mean what was that stewardess seeing the ghost of Flight 401 when they had a crash of a Lockheed 1011 in a swamp in Florida, the crash killed 400 people, they took the wreck, they put it into a warehouse and then they had an L1011 that had an elevator fail so they took the elevator from the wreck and they put it in this new plane.
By the way, when they took the elevator out of the new plane and put it back in the way, they do that. But that's a separate question.
Well, they were looking for spare parts. The apparitions stopped.
You had empirical, you had pilots and you had stewardesses, you had people of the real world seeing an apparition of someone that they knew and you had a corporate reaction to it that was quite extreme.
I think it's very interesting that he brought up the ghost of flight 401, which is indeed a famous story. But you know as well as I do, Neil, that current psychological research shows the reality of group hallucinations.