One of the most authenticated cases of after-death contacts ever documented is the so-called "Ghosts of Flight 401." In December of 1972, an Eastern Airlines Tri-Star jetliner, Flight 401, crashed into a Florida swamp. The pilot, Bob Loft, and flight engineer, Don Repo, were two of the 101 people who perished in the air crash. Not long after the crash, the ghosts of Loft and Repo were seen on more than twenty occasions by crew members and passengers on other Eastern Tri-Stars, especially those planes which had been fitted with parts salvaged from the Flight 401 wreckage.

Many reports came from people in highly responsible positions: pilots, flight officers, even a vice president of Eastern Airlines, who allegedly spoke with a captain he assumed was in charge of the flight, before recognizing him as the late Loft. Other sightings are convincing because they had multiple witnesses. A flight’s captain and two flight attendants claim to have seen and spoken to Loft before take-off and watched him vanish – an experience that left them so shaken they canceled the flight.

As the reports would have it, Loft and Repo were watching over the passengers and crew of these Lockheed passenger planes. (See John G. Fuller's book for details). On one occasion Repo appeared to a captain and told him, "There will never be another crash. We will not let it happen." Read more.