Angelo Donadeo
Age: 79
Summary: retired aircraft
engineer who
was the lone survivor of the four occupants on the flight deck of the
December 1972 plane crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida
Everglades, killing 101 of the 176 persons aboard after the entire flight crew
became distracted by an apparent problem with the landing gear prior to it's
final approach when he was riding in the cockpit jump seat as an off-duty flight
officer while he was returning to Miami from an assignment in New York at the
time of the crash, who had
suffered from multiple fractures to his vertebrae causing some
paralysis and later recovered from his injuries.
Cause of Death: Not released
Born: March 15, 1925
Died: October 2, 2004
Location: Land O'Lakes, Florida
