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<\/a>A Delta Airllines L-1011 \/Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>With the airplane trimmed out well, the big Lockheed Tristar began losing altitude very slightly and so smoothly no one on the flight deck realized the airplane was sinking so ever slightly into the darkness of the Everglades.The cockpit voice recorder (CVR), records Stockstill saying, \u201cWe did something to the altitude.\u201dLoft asks, \u201cWhat?\u201dStockstill then asks, \u201cWe\u2019re still at 2000 feet, right?\u201dA moment later, Loft utters his famous last words, \u201cHey – what’s happening here?\u201d At almost the same time, the left wing impacts the swamp, then the landing gear, and shortly afterward, the rest of the airplane.Impact happened at only three knots less than 200 KTAS. Many credit the water and sawgrass, combined with the aircraft being somewhat under control at touchdown, as the reasons why 77 initially survived the crash. Two would later die from their injuries, bringing the total death toll to 101.Many of the survivors owe their lives to the selfless acts of courage of Robert Marquis, known as \u201cBud\u201d to his friends. Bud and his friend, Ray Dickinsin were in the \u2019Glades gigging frogs from his airboat. They witnessed the crash, and in the men\u2019s minds, neither questioned what they had to do. Throughout the rest of the night and into the next day, even though they suffered burns from the fires of the spilled jet fuel, they repeatedly returned to the crash site to find and shuttle survivors out.Bud Marquis won humanitarian awards for his courage that night 38 years ago tonight.<\/p>\n
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