The Ghost Pilot

Just before midnight on December 12, 1972, Eastern Airlines flight 401 fell out of the sky. The airplane crashed in the Everglades area of florida. Of the 176 on board, 99 died, including the airplane's pilot, Bob Loft, and the flight engineer, Don Repo. 

about three months after the crash, a high-ranking executive of Eastern Airlines boarded on aircraft of Miami, Florida. he spotted a man in a pilot's uniform sitting alone in the first class section and went to sit down beside him. The ececutivve struck up a conversation with the captain. after a view minutes, he realized that he was talking to the pilot Bob Loft. Then the pilot faded away. 

A week later, Eastern Airlines pilot and two of his crew went into a staf room at John F. Kennedy airport, in New york. They all saw Bob Loft in a chair. He talked to them for a while, then vanished. The men were so shocked that the airline had to cancel their flight.

Three weeks later, a passanger was sitting in the first class section of a flight to Miami. She was worried about the man in a Eastern Airlines uniform sitting next to her. His face was white and he looked ill, so she called the flight attendant.

The flight attendant leaned down to speak to the man but he ignoreed her. Then, as she touched his arm, he slowly faded away, leaving only an empty seat.

When the plan landed in Miami, the passanger was taken to a hospital in a state of shock. Later, when she saw photographs, she identified the ghost as flight engineer as Don Repo. 

Over the next few months, more than ten flight attendants claimed to see Don Repo. The ghost seemed to appear more often on some aircraft than on others. Rumors began to spread that he appeared only on plane with replacement part from the crashed Flight 401. It was usual practice for an airline to use undamaged parts from a crashed plan in another plan if they passed strict safety tests. 

The stories must have worred the bosses of Eastern Airlines. They orderen their passengers to remove from their plane all equipment from the 401 wreck.

It seemed to work. when all the parts from Flight 401 had been removed, Bob Loft and Don Repo left Eastern Airlines and their aircraft in peace. No one has seen their ghosh since.