Andrew Gideon wrote:

That was the story behind some airline crash in Florida, if memory serves.

An L-1011. The pilots were descending for approach into Miami. An idiot light
came on, they started trying to trouble-shoot that, accidentally knocked the
control column (which turned the autopilot off), and set down in the glades.

The airline salvaged some of the plane and reused the pieces during maintenance
of other aircraft in the fleet. The ghost of the flight engineer was said to
haunt all of the planes that received these parts. I remember that it was quite
a scandal in Atlanta at the time - a number of people quit the airline.
Eventually all the parts were removed and destroyed.

Years later, the made a movie of the incident. Starred Ernest Borgnine, as I
recall.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.