We could also see a few other aircraft flying into the restricted airspace. She was shown photos of several of the flight staff and she picked out Don Repo. Sadie Yellin 1/9/15 That was the first time I had heard of the crash. There were bodies that were naked, which we all figured occurred because they had been flung out of the protected environmental cocoon of the L1011 into 200 mph winds when the fuselage broke up. According to my late mother, she wanted to get back to flying, but she was petrified every time she heard jet noise. Branches had been recently snapped off all the way around the opening, all pointing inward. He'd see the lights and hear the roar as the jets climbed into the black night over the swamp or descended toward Miami International Airport. "They gave us six months off and then we were expected to be 'over it. Genres. Sara Escobar 8/ 7/31 The Ghost of Flight 401 was not much of a departure for him. Elisa Ruth Romero 5/28/44 Wreckage site of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. I'll forever believe that it was Eastern Flight 401, just minutes before it and its passengers and crew became part of aviation history and legend. Raposa smiled cheerfully while she collected empty drink cups and dishes from the passengers. This one quip appears to be the genesis of the entire story. According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the main fuselage broke into four main sections and many other smaller pieces on impact. There were 75 at the time, 20 years ago tonight. Flight 401 - First Response | Elizabeth M. Pollack 12/10/17 His wife Nancy - they married when she was 15 - could always tell when it was on his mind, though. Samuel J. Prager 12/23/03 Sign up! In unison, we looked up to see the silhouette of a Lockheed L1011 flying westbound at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. I was tired and hit the sack as soon as I got home. "It's 100 degrees in the house, honey," Nancy says, joining him on the porch. To the flight 401 survivors - Francoise Riette December 30, 2021, 4:08 pm. He'd stay calm, look at the stars for direction, think things through, then crank up the airboat engine and find his way back to the Tamiami Trail. This crux of the story was completely made up out of whole cloth. I have lost contact with Bill Elliott. It is now known that "Mrs. McAvoy" was Donna Smith, Thomas McAvoy's traveling companion. Selma Karpen 6/16/21 The haunted aircraft components that harbored the flight engineer's benevolent ghost entered the hall of fame of 1970s urban legends. I don't remember the take-off or the landing that day, but I vividly remember the meteorological conditions and the crash site. Robert Albin Loft 3/17/17 The flight, destined for Kyiv, Ukraine, took off on Jan. 8, 2020 from Tehran . The crew members, however, were focused on fixing the wheel-light indicator. They were all the pieces that had been salvaged from Flight 401, including the oven and elevator, but many other pieces as well. In short, it was a great place to eat (we used to have outstanding club Bar-B-Q, talk airplanes, perform minor maintenance and fly planes. Of five survivors The Herald located this week, three talked freely about Flight 401. If you would like to contribute to this cause, donations can be made to: National Air Disaster Foundation (write "EAL 401 Memorial" on the check), You may also make donations by credit card on their website: www.PlaneSafe.org. The article covered the story of an Eastern L-1011 ferry flight where the jet lost one of the two operating engines and the pilot had a challenging landing. Don Repo survived long enough to reach the hospital, but he also proved to be too badly injured. Rose Marie Cillis - Mark Paternoster May 15, 2021, 11:07 pm. One retired Eastern L-1011 pilot I spoke to said that he had a second officer flying with him on a B-727 for several months in the Spring of '73 who was a self-ordained preacher. That was an unsurvivable crash, but we made it out," she said. Donadeo is still active in aviation, as state vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 5 | He seemed deeply saddened by that fact. On December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp. Salvatore Carfizzi 7/15/15 It seemed to help. He also ran his own gun store in Seymour, Conn. During this time, he divorced and later met Alexandra (Sandra) Burt. Two years after the crash, a book called The Ghost of Flight 401 was published, claiming that there were many reported sightings of the pilot, who had most likely accidentally switched off the autopilot, and the flight engineer, who had missed the warning chime because he left his seat to investigate the issue with the landing gear light. "I couldn't understand why I lived and they didn't. Lucille Cilles 1/30/24 Exactly fifty years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 mysteriously slammed into the Florida Everglades at over 200 miles per hour. Suddenly, he stopped. This killed the First Officer instantly. Not long after, "ghosts" of Loft and Repo were seen on more than twenty occasions by crew members on other Eastern Tri-Stars, especially those planes which had been fitted with parts salvaged from the Flight 401 wreckage. Edward graduated from Seymour High in 1947. Photo was taken earlier while on the ground in Miami. 1972 was drawing to a close when a routine flight from JFK, New York to Miami departed at 9:20 p.m. with 30-year veteran pilot Captain Bob Loft at the controls. Ron Infantino woke up in a chill, heart pounding, breath erratic. He wants to show them how to gig frogs. 21 Mar 2017. Of the 176 passengers and crew members aboard Flight 401, 77 survived the initial crash. Sure enough, once arrived in Mexico City, it was discovered that one of the three engines was damaged and would have to be replaced. In fact, do a Google image search for "flight 401 wreckage" and you'll see at a glance that the aircraft was completely destroyed. Flight 401 may refer to: Iberia Airlines Flight 401, crashed on 5 May 1965. Lost - Passengers and Crew (Name and Birthdate), Elise Grace Agate 9/3/42 Still, $50,000 will have to be raised in order to erect the memorial. We dont have a light on our nose gear yet.. She was whipped. Ernest F. Bloodgood 4/1/16 Lilly leaned back in her seat, resting quietly. Stefan Jay Rubin 3/21/49 "Welcome to Miami," the pilot announced during the descent at 11:30. In late 1972 the two were passengers in a plane crash that left both with debilitating painful injuries. Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. The court citing, among other reasons, that the claimants were found to be actors or participants in newsworthy stories or events, that the book a nonfictionalized account based on the authors own investigationfell under the legitimate public interest exception. The altimeter showed a decrease in altitude, but none of the crew noticed. I come from an Eastern family - my mother, Betty Olson, retired from Eastern in 1976. Officially, Eastern Air Lines denied anything was wrong with their aircraft or personnel. Many of the survivors were also stripped of their clothes and this contributed to medical problems with all the bacteria in the Everglades water and the relatively cold temperatures that night. That was the last transmission before the left wing sliced into the Everglades at 225 mph. The petite brunette stood just 5 feet 1.5 inches tall. 2017. "CRASH" BOOK AND MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1977/ 1978). 2017. Source: Google Sites. This show is made possible by financial support from listeners like you. Now take a sip. In 1972 he was a young carpenter who liked living fast. Then a sudden jolt rattled the aircraft. Ronald Jaye March 27, 1940 Two tours in Southeast Asia had hardened him. Oddly, he felt no pain. But he and his helper had 30 pounds of legs. Loft accidentally nudged the control yoke, perhaps with his knee, while turning around to speak to Repo, and the autopilot mode was one which followed whatever pitch the pilot set with the yoke. . The memories don't. "We consider it the day our second life began," Christina Casado-Acorn, said of Dec. 29, 1972. Rose Lina Zollo 7/13/43. The pilot of this flight was so unnerved by all of this that he canceled the flight. More than a single person has often been present at the time, whether by accident or design. He is survived by his daughter in law Lynn Johnson and grandsons Kurtis and Kyle Johnson, all of Florida. Lockheed L-1011, aircraft 310, flight 401 headed from New York to Miami on Dec. 29, 1972. Source: Pope Lick Monster the Killer Goatman of Kentucky, Joyce Vincents Unsettling Death That Went Undiscovered for 3 Years, These Real Creepy Audio Recordings Will Give You Nightmares, The Case of Teresita BasaHow a Ghost Solved a Murder. Four years after the crash, there was no such thing as convenient access to the photos for the average person. Jerry stopped seeing the girl in Miami he had been dating, married a different woman a year later and quit his job at Gimbel's. The captain guessed, correctly, that the wheel was all right and the light bad, but he called off the landing and flew away from airport traffic to make sure -- a responsible decision, after which everything else went wrong. It was one of the great ghost stories of the 1970s. One was Micale, who they found alone on a clump of swamp muck, drenched in swamp water and jet fuel. Flight 401 - Possible Explanation | Well launch from there.. Solomon Fisher 7/18/11 Water saturated by jet fuel filled his boots, burning his legs. The largest recognizable pieces of wreckage were the cockpit section and the center engine intake and attached fuselage section. The breakdown and subsequent emergency landing did in fact happen, and was covered in a tongue-in-cheek brief in the journal of the Flight Safety Foundation. Undeterred, the pilot investigated further and did find a problem that may have caused a serious accident if it went unnoticed. Jose Rego 9/5/19 Robert Serling's 1980 book From the Captain to the Colonel tells the complete history of Eastern Airlines, from 1935 when it was headed by World War I ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, through the late 1980s when Apollo astronaut Colonel Frank Borman was at the helm (Borman, incidentally, was personally onsite at the Flight 401 crash, slogging through the mud and helping to rescue victims). Anne Ponte 1/7/16 His doctor warned him not to travel alone, not with his weak heart and lungs and aching back. It is almost a physical impossibility to find and remove every scrap of wreckage from a swamp. There were four men in the cockpit, all preoccupied with the light and landing gear. She dug down into the black muck, cupped a double handful to her face and smeared it all over the affected areas. "I still love to fly; I get on planes and fall asleep like a baby," jokes Raposa. You could hear the cry of death. Something was wrong with the landing gear or the landing-gear light on the control panel. The flight crew of 401. But we idled back around to double-check on them just in case.. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. Their marriage spanned 47 years. Born in Seymour, Conn. on May 8, 1929, to Julius and Mary Kaslo Ulrich. "Hey, what's happening here?" With the $250,000 legal settlement, Micale thought he had it made. * Glenn C. Remkus, 47, was still hospitalized in Miami with burns and two broken legs as of February 1973, though a newspaper report on Dec 31st had reported him to be in "satisfactory" condition and in "good spirits." Unable to move and weak from severe loss of blood, his body hung suspended in the watery muck, still bent in the sitting position. The flying safety was even more compromised because it was slightly hazy which reduced visibility to seven to ten miles over the Everglades. He likes to think about those days. He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Donna; son, John (Jan) Angelo; daughters, Susan (Bob) Norberg, Patricia (Rick) Shepherd; and nine grandchildren. | Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. Reports began to take on much more sinister overtone, at least in the eyes of the witness involved. Rosa Losano 11/1/01 It marked the 50th anniversary of the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 disaster. Richard L. Marquis, a carpet-layer, saw it too. But it kept jamming. He needed a respiratory therapist -- who, it turned out, needed him, too. Then, on Saturday, December 29, a fleet of over 100 airboats carried survivors, their families and others to the crash site for a special memorial. Jerrold Solomon, who had walked away from the crash unscathed, flew home to New York three days later. He saw a man standing, shocked, in knee-deep water. Back in the day, when he spent so much time in the wilderness, only the airplanes overhead reminded him of civilization. Jose Carrasquillo 6/28/40 "Having money ruined my life," he said. One other witness has also come forward with a similar story that adds validity to the others simply because of who he was at the time. To all who shivered at night in fear of this creepy story, it seemed that it must have been true as reported. Outside of the aircraft, there wasnt much in the way of visual cues and city lights were non-existent. (No one had a camera, so I don't have any personal photos.) Trudy is survived by her nephews, Jason Mooney and wife Annette, Jeremy Ogelsby and wife Amy; great-nephews, Nathan Mooney and wife Courtney, Caleb Mooney and wife Savannah, and Brandon Ogelsby; great-nieces, Laura Mooney and Alaura Ogelsby;2 great-great-nephews and 2 great-great-nieces; cousins, Jacque Wirta and Jack Moncrief. Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to uncover the horrifying truth about the crash of Eastern Flight 401. Yes, they are, Raposa assured them. Rights and reuse information. Mildred Katz 1/8/34 Some still feel the pain. On Dec. 3, Southern Airboat and other organizations also plan to honor Bud and the victims and survivors of Eastern Flight 401 with a service and a barbecue in Miami. He had lost contact with his frogging helper, Ray, too. Pedro Garcia 2/10/26 No flicker from an air boaters headlamp. Later on during the flight though, problems with the engine all stemmed from a fire that no-one knew about. The signal inside the cockpit had not illuminated as it should have. "I thought I would fall apart," she told a newspaper in 1975. He saw openings in the sawgrass created by sliding chunks of broken airplane. Two passing pilots saw it and called the airport. Rob and Sarah Elder, 20 Aug. 2010. I was then almost 26 years old and had recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. We were like five bobbing bubble-head dolls because there were a lot - and I mean a lot - of other aircraft up in the air doing the same thing we set out to do. It is personal and it has served over the intervening years to remind me of how precious and tenuous life can be. On December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - Flight 401 - left New York and flew on a downward vector to Miami, Florida. Flight 401 crash-landed into the Everglades at over 200 mph. Obviously, this is a red flag waving at us vigorously that we should be sure to take this tale with several good grains of salt. at Highland Cemetery in Deport, Texas. What made it so hard was trying to manhandle him up and over the broken willows. He lost interest in his job and just wanted to be alone. This position is with the Agency Services area of DTMB. The middle engine and tail section had broken away from the main fuselage, coming to a rest on their sides in a remote area far from the main crash site, which was located 18.7 miles northwest of Miami International Airport. An Eastern flight attendant posted this scan (below) from his L-1011 FA manual. Reigler, P. "Lessons Learnt from the Crash of Eastern 401." ----------------------------------------------. We had a habit of informally gathering at the clubhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings to down a few beers and catch up on all the news that had any impact on us. Flight 401 was a short-haul flight to Miami. Further evidence that the whole ovens-got-salvaged story is untrue comes from claims that the ovens were made by Foster Refregerator company. In 1985, his years as a manual laborer caught up with him. It is 12 feet long and 7 feet across. Bud waved the helicopter toward a nearby levee. Why You Needn't Worry About the Missing 411, How to Extract Adrenochrome from Children. Then zip, the light was out.". He has never taken pleasure in talking about what he saw after Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 went down and how he felt about it. He'd get that look. Theyre not going to find us, an anxious passenger whispered. Back row from the left: Mercy Ruiz, Sue Tebbs, Adrienne Hamilton, Trudy Smith. You don't want to be in the water with me.". It looked as though the L1011 was in a shallow left turn and dragged the left wing tip in the swamp. He isn't a talker to begin with, unless it's about boats or engines or the 'glades. Instead, he would witness the first jumbo jet crash in U.S. history. "I've tried to throw [the suitcase] away many times, but something always holds me back. When I was learning to fly in the mid-1960s at Sun Line Helicopters, one of the fixed base operators (FBO) tied into the Miami-Dade Junior College aviation program at the Opa locka Airport, I worked as a line boy refueling aircraft and doing minor line maintenance. document.write(theYear) Flamingo Magazine, This Recent University of Tampa Graduate Just Won the Florida Filmmaker Award. Paquita Carrasquillo 10/4/40 In the hospital, a nine-inch steel rod was inserted into the bone. PHOTO CREDIT: Patrick Farrell - Miami Herald Staff. But, to play it safe, she always wore an add-on hairpiece and teased her hair up into a bouffant to make herself look taller. My direct and indirect contact with Eastern Flight 401 didn't end on December 30, 1972. I checked my log book entry for Dec. 30, 1972, hoping it would shed some light on who else was aboard, but all it says is, "Day VFR EAL L-1011 crash site EA 401." Spectral looking people with manic laughs or clanking chains are another popular image people often have of ghosts or spirits. "I think I can still do it. Flight 401 Normal - Faulty Auto Pilot | We've been married going on 18 years now." Some would rather not remember. He can't remember anyone's name now. Skeptoid Podcast Loose chunks of lime rock cracked and popped under the tires as he crawled ahead. They married in 1974. Author John G. Fuller claimed the whole book was true . That alone adds credibility to their accounts. Ann Connell, Barry Connell, Angelo Donadeo, Patricia R Georgia, Adrianne Ann Hamilton, Jennifer Larsen, Thomas Mulcahy, Mercedes V Ruiz, Beverly Jean Raposa, Trudy J Smith, Sue F. Tibbs, Sharon R Transue, Dorothy M Warnock. Donadeo, an Eastern Airlines technical specialist on L-1011 aircraft, was returning to Miami that night from a trouble- shooting assignment in New York. The trip to Florida, by official accounts, was pleasantly routine. Flight 401 flew into the ground on Friday night, Dec. 29, 1972, at 13 seconds past 11:42 p.m. The left wingtip hit first. The Senior Architecture Analyst provides architecture . The appearance of the dead flight engineer was confirmed by the flight engineer. By that time, I had also earned a commercial pilot license with airplane single and multi-engine and instrument ratings. Kobe Bryant, 41 ans, un des plus clbres joueurs de basket-ball de la NBA, avait pris sa retraite en 2016.. bord de l'hlicoptre se trouvaient galement sa fille de treize ans, Gianna, qui jouait . Charles H. Johnson - Miami Air Traffic Controller who was working Flight 401 dies, April 10, 2019. Then the commuter airline folded. March 21, 2017 We're having legs tonight. Picture that in your mind. She looked into the distance, saw the dim lights of Miami framed against a coal-black horizon and noticed how far away it was. Back to the clubhouse and armed with the airspace restrictions, I was ready to fly. She had been recovering from a heartbreak of her own for a year and a half. "The temperature is in the low 70s, and it's beautiful out there tonight." The City of Miami Springs hosted a Beautiful Memorial Ceremony on Thursday, December 29, 2022. The FAA guy sitting closest to Leonhard yelled, Holy shit!, An airboat doesnt have brakes, Leonhard explained. Lockheed L-1011 Inside the Hell Hole | Bob called Infantino, who loves to tell the story: "He was a regional coordinator with AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Co., and that's when I started -- 16 years ago, and I've been with them ever since. Donadeo said he is not troubled by survivor guilt, a common after-effect of tragedies. It's truly amazing how the mind works for, at the time, I had no idea of the significance of what I saw that night nor did I intend to store it away in my memory banks. The silence was broken only by the intermittent croaking of bullfrogs and the occasional rustle of tall reeds as an unseen creature passed through them. In a calm, soothing voice, she said, Now close your eyes and pretend you have a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or tea in your hands. It has a flat bottom and a high seat and a cobweb-draped engine and propeller. (Ron Infantino) On the 29th of December 1972, an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar landing in Miami, Florida plowed into the Everglades well short of the airport, throwing dozens of survivors into a grisly fight for survival. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, crashed on 29 December 1972. It is now known that "Mrs. McAvoy" was Donna Smith, Thomas McAvoy's traveling companion. He knows exactly how he'd go about it. An attendant of Tri-Star 318 was so shocked to see Repo looking back at her, that she called other members of the cabin crew to confirm the sighting. The Department of Technology, Management and Budget supports the business operations of the state agencies through a variety of services including Information Technology project delivery, maintenance and support. ", PHOTO of Mercy Ruiz and her Samsonite suitcase in May 2009. The wheels were down, locked in position for landing, but the pilot wasn't sure about the forward wheel under the plane's nose. An aerial view of the crash site; a swath of the Everglades; Photography courtesy Ron Infantino. Mr. Elder later became an Editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He was honored again at the memorial service for the crash victims and their families on December 29th, 2007, and he led a procession of more than 100 airboats to the crash site from a launching site on the Tamiami Trail (US 41). That doesn't haunt me either . But we knew our job was to rescue the survivors first. "You have to keep your eye on the frogs real good when that airboat is moving - I mean not take your eyes away - and be quick with the gig," he says, in what amounts to the Gettysburg Address for him. She had been turned down by Trans World Airlines for a job because she was a half inch under the 5-foot-2-inch minimum height required for all stewardesses. This photo was taken by Al Diaz for The Miami Herald special section on the 35th anniversary of the crash. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. A light on the instrument panel the first officer was monitoring failed to illuminate green to confirm that the nose landing gear was extended and locked. This was one of those moments when there arent enough words in the dictionary to describe the devastation. In his investigations talking with various airline employees (which occupy most of the book), he discovered the likely reason: According to the flight crew, who were highly reluctant to discuss it, Don Repo had appeared in the cockpit and talked them through the landing. Documentary, Unscripted. Ghosts of Flight 401 - 7 | Edward was also sent to Florida to build Trap and Skeet gun clubs in some southern states, he always maintained that the clubs were 20 years ahead of their time. Edward E. Ulrich died at home on May 25, 2021. She wore panty hose and looked like shed been scalped with a razor. In every direction, there was nothing but dead silence and incredible darkness. Join our emailing list to keep up to date with the latest. Stick with the book. My mother never told me the flight attendant's name, but she did say that she had suffered a broken back in the crash. The time was 9:20 p.m. . The image of Repo said "Watch out for fire on this airplane," and then disappeared. Fuller's book was soon made into a popular TV movie, also called The Ghost of Flight 401, notable for having creeped people out for years. Serling also tracked down the Mexico City emergency landing, and found, predictably, that there was no truth whatsoever to the story of a face appearing in an oven window. ", This pilot added, however, that he "flew 318 several times in the late 80s and never saw any unnatural apparitions - some weird looking people, but no ghosts. #563 Marquis waved his headlamp in circles, guiding the pilots to the crash. 200110850. Afterward, folks hope to take the old man into the Everglades, in his own airboat, if he wants. The two girls in the photograph that are having the bunny ears (Patricia Ghyssels) and the one jokingly being choked (Stephanie Stanich) were the only two flight attendants who did . On December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing over 100 souls. I had first, second and third-degree burns all over my body. Richard J. Schulleri 1/3/43 Mary Carfizzi 11/3/19 The idea that a large, boxy, relatively delicate component like an oven or an elevator could have survived undamaged is immediately ludicrous at face value. Were still at 2,000, right? the first officer asked. For over thirty years Charlie worked with the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller. That credo seems to be exemplified in every major airplane crash. Under the command of Captain Robert Albin Loft, an expert navigator rated 50th in seniority at Eastern. She worked only briefly as a flight attendant after the crash. It was approximately 15 to 20 miles west-southwest of the Opa locka Airport and it was pretty difficult to find at first. Accura Media Group LLC, 30 Dec. 2013. No gunshots. Huge gouts of mud and aquatic vegetation shot high into the air as 185 tons of screeching metal ripped into the muck and grass. It's like it's a charm," she said. Above: Flight attendants Beverly Raposa and Mercy Ruiz sit on a patch of ground in the Everglades where their flight crashed 35 years earlier. Chapter 4 - Flight 401 Passenger List. Repo, Donald Louis | Christina (center) was two-months-old at the time of the crash, making her the youngest survivor . Before a bad back forced an early retirement, Bud laid carpet, grew avocados and worked as a game warden in the Everglades. Later that afternoon or evening, Bill Elliott came back to the clubhouse where we were all waiting for him so he could let us know what he did and saw. Let us email you a link to each week's new episode. They were both 26 years old. All photos by Southern Airboat, who coordinated the event. Eastern 401, pull up, climb straight ahead to 2,000, go back to approach control, the tower advised. About us | Our programming | Become a supporter | Privacy. Caridad Fermina Hernandez 10/11/32 2017. "I consider the survivors 75 miracles. Perhaps that may not have made much difference. I'm pretty sure that Tom Roche and Bob Crews were two of the "lucky" ones that got aboard, but I couldn't swear to it now. He was left wearing nothing but a necktie and belt pushed up under his armpits. Robert L. Marquis - "Bud" to friends - wanted to eat frogs' legs. Inside was a treasure: Her camera with the unprocessed film of shots of the crew taken that day. Another pilot on another flight was seriously concerned when he heard knocking coming from beneath the cockpit itself. By. Thirty minutes later, Leonhard and his passengers suddenly burst out of a thick patch of 12-foot-high sawgrass. As I recall that December night, it was a relatively cool evening for south Florida with a moonless night sky. Inside the planes cockpit, the crew was trying to slide in a replacement bulb, a roughly two-square-inch all-in-one light assembly unit covered by a translucent green plastic lens, valued at $12 altogether. 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