Eastern Air Lines Flug 401

[B727]

Nachdem ich über diesen (http://www.airliners.net/discussions/ge ... in/3035490) interessanten Thread gestolpert bin, äußerte jemand, dass eine interessante "ghost story" geben würde. Daraufhin postete "Wings" diesen Ausschnitt:


23.32:35 RDO-1 Miami Tower, Eastern 401 just turned on final
23.32:45 TWR Who else called?
23.32:48 CAM-1 Go ahead and throw 'em out
23.32:52 RDO-1 Miami Tower, do you read, Eastern 401? Just turned on final
23.32:56 TWR Eastern 401 Heavy, continue approach to 9 left
23.33:00 RDO-1 Coninue approach, roger
23.33:00 CAM-3 Continuous ignition. No smoke
CAM-1 Coming on
CAM-3 Brake system
CAM-1 Okay
CAM-3 Radar
CAM-1 Up, off
CAM-3
CAM-? * * *
CAM-3 Engine crossbleeds are open
23.33:22 CAM-? Gear down
CAM-? * * *
CAM-1 I gotta
CAM-? .....
23.33:25 CAM-1 I gotta raise it back up
23.33:47 CAM-1 Now I'm gonna try it down one more time
CAM-2 All right
23.33:58 CAM [sound of altitude alert horn]
CAM-2 (Right) gear.
CAM-2 Well, want to tell 'em we'll take it around and circle around and # around?
23.34:05 RDO-1 Well ah, tower, this is Eastern, ah, 401. It looks like we're gonna have to circle, we don't have a light on our nose gear yet
23.34:14 TWR Eastern 401 heavy, roger, pull up, climb straight ahead to two thousand, go back to approach control, one twenty eight six
23.34:19 CAM-2 Twenty-two degrees.
CAM-2 Twenty-two degrees, gear up
CAM-1 Put power on it first, Bert. Thata boy.
CAM-1 Leave the # # gear down tll we fid out what we got
CAM-2 Allright
You want me to test the lights or not?
CAM-1 Yeah.
CAM-? * * seat back
CAM-1 Check it
CAM-2 Uh, Bob, it might be the light. Could you jiggle tha, the light?
CAM-3 It's gotta, gotta come out a little bit and then snap in
CAM-? * *
CAM-? I'll put 'em on
23.34:21 RDO-1 Okay, going up to two thousand, one twenty-eight six
23.34:58 CAM-2 We're up to two thousand
CAM-2 You want me to fly it, Bob?
CAM-1 What frequency did he want us on, Bert?
CAM-2 One twenty-eight six
CAM-1 I'll talk to 'em
CAM-3 It''s right ...........
CAM-1 Yeah, ............
CAM-3 I can't make it pull out, either
CAM-1 We got pressure
CAM-3 Yes sir, all systems
CAM-1 # #
23.35:09 RDO-1 All right ahh, Approach Control, Eastern 401, we're right over the airport here and climbing to two thousand f
23.35:20 APP Eastern 401, roger. Turn left heading three six zero and maintain two thousand, vectors to 9 Left final
23.35:28 RDO-1 Left three six zero
23.36:04 CAM-1 Put the ... on autopilot here
CAM-2 Allright
CAM-1 See if you can get that light out
CAM-2 Allright
CAM-1 Now push the switches just a ... forward.
CAM-1 Okay.
CAM-1 You got it sideways, then.
CAM-? Naw, I don't think it'll fit.
CAM-1 You gotta turn it one quarter turn to the left.
23.36:27 APP Eastern 401, turn left heading three zero zero
RDO-1 Okay.
23.36:37 RDO-1 Three zero zero, Eastern 401
23.37:08 CAM-1 Hey, hey, get down there and see if that damn nose wheel's down. You better do that.
CAM-2 You got a handkerchief or something so I can get a little better grip on this? Anything I can do with it?
CAM-1 Get down there and see if that, see if that # thing ...
CAM-2 This won't come out, Bob. If I had a pair of pliers, I could cushion it with that Kleenex
CAM-3
CAM-2 Yeah, I'll cushion it with Kleenex
CAM-3 Oh, we can give you pliers
23.37:48 APP Eastern, uh, 401 turn left heading two seven zero
23.37:53 RDO-1 Left two seven zero, roger
23.38:34 CAM-1 To # with it, to # with this. Go down ans see if it's lined up with the red line. That's all we care. # around with that # twenty-cent piec
CAM * * *
23.38:46 RDO-1 Eastern 401 'll go ah, out west just a little further if we can here and, ah, see if we can get this light to come on here
23.38:54 APP Allright, ah, we got you headed westbound there now, Eastern 401
23.38:56 RDO-1 Allright
CAM-1 How much fuel we got left on this # # # #
CAM-? Fifty two five
CAM-2 (It won't come out) no way
23.39:37 CAM-1 Did you ever take it out of there?
CAM-2 Huh?
CAM-1 Have you evre taken it out of there?
CAM-2 Hadn't till now
CAM-1 Put it in the wrong way, huh?
CAM-2 In there looks * square to me
CAM-? Can't y CAM-? * * *
CAM-? Whatever's wrong?
CAM-1 (What's that?)
23.40:05 CAM-2 I think that's over the training field
CAM-? West heading you wanna go left or *
CAM-2 Naw that's right, we're about to cross Krome Avenue right now
23.40:17 CAM [Sound of click]
CAM-2 I don't know what the # holding that # # # # in
CAM-2 Always something, we coulda make schedule
23.40:38 CAM [Sound of altitude alert]
CAM-1 We can tell if that # # # # is down by looking down at our indices
CAM-1 I'm sure it's down, there's no way it couldnt help but be
CAM-2 I'm sure it is
CAM-1 It freefalls down
CAM-2 The tests didn't show that the lights worked anyway
CAM-1 That 's right
CAM-2 It's a faulty light
23.41:05 CAM-2 Bob, this # # # # just won't come out
CAM-1 Allright leave it there
CAM-3 I don't see it down there
Huh?
CAM-3 I don't see it
CAM-1 You can't see that indis ... for the nosewheel ah, there's a place in there you can look and see if they're lined up
CAM-3 I know, a little like a telescope
CAM-1 Yeah
CAM-3 Well...
CAM-1 It's not lined up?
CAM-3 I can't see it, it's pitch dark and I throw the little light I get ah nothing
23.41:31 CAM-4 Wheel-well lights on?
CAM-3 Pardon?
CAM-4 Wheel-well lights on?
CAM-3 Yeah wheel well lights always on if the gear's down
CAM-1 Now try it
23.41:40 APP Eastern, ah 401 how are things comin' along out there?
23.41:44 RDO-1 Okay, we'd like to turn around and come, come back in
CAM-1 Clear on left?
CAM-2 Okay
23.41:47 APP Eastern 401 turn left heading one eight zero
23.41:50 CAM-1 Huh?
23.41:51 RDO-1 One eighty
23.42:05
CAM-1 What?
23.42:07 CAM-2 We're still at two thousand right?
23.42:09 CAM-1 Hey, what's happening here?
CAM [Sound of click]
23.42:10 CAM [Sound of six beeps similar to radio altimeter increasing in rate]
23.42:12 [Sound of impact]


Okay, die Crew wollte offenbar vom ATC wissen, ob das Bugfahrwerk ausgefahren sei, erkennbar am Licht. Weil sie sich ausschließlich darauf konzentrierten das Bugfahrwerk rauszubekommen, kam es letztlich zu dem Absturz.
Was ist daran nun "ghost story"? Wenn ich das richtig überblicke, spricht ein Unbekannter(?) teilweise mit der Crew....
Sorry, aber irgendwie blicke ich da nicht durch. Evtl. kann mir ja jemand sagen was da abging.
Könnte jemand bitte auch mal auflisten für was die Abkürzungen (CAM/RDO etc.) stehen?

[Glideslope]

Ich habe hier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ai ... Flight_401 und hier http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-ea401.shtml dazu was gefunden.
Demnach sahen Angestelle von Eastern Airlines auf ihren Flügen immer wieder Geister der an Bord des Unglücksfluges ums Leben gekommenen Kollegen.

CAM-1 - Pilot
CAM-2 - Copilot
CAM-3 - Navigator
RDO-1 - Funkspruch aus dem Cockpit (Pilot)

[B727]

ah ok. Das bringt Licht ins Dunkle. Danke.