If You Can Hear My Voice...Don't Light A Match: The Story of Eastern Airlines Flight 401

This video was created for the exhibit entitled "If You Can Hear My Voice...Don't Light A Match" which opened on January 14, 2023 at HistoryMiami Museum and is on view through March 19, 2023. The group of exhibit showcases 12 artists which I selected to intervene individual L-1011 aircrafts to interpret the story of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 which crashed in the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972.

The 12 artists and their plane's sponsor are listed below:

Ana Maria Sarlat - Sponsor: Benny F. Benitez of 94th AeroClaims-Aviation Consultant Group

Aurora Molina - Sponsor: Raiden Solutions

Jaqueline Roch - Sponsor: Paramount Residential Mortgage Group

Connie Lloveras - Sponsor: Sean Gallagan, PhD., former principal of George T. Baker Aviation School and former Associate Dean of Broward College

Evelyn Valdirio - Sponsor: Broward College

ASANDRA - Sponsor: George T. Baker Aviation Technical College

Martin Casuso - Sponsor: Banyan Air Services FBO

Esteban Blanco - Sponsor: Conquest Air Cargo

Carlos Manuel Cardenes - Sponsor: Ron Infantino (EAL Flight 401 survivor)

Antonio Gonzalez-Nuñez - Sponsor: Kurt Kamrad, former CEO of Miami Air

Armando Perez Aleman - Sponsor: South Florida Aviation Maintenance Council

George Rodez - Sponsor: Atlantic-Models, Inc. (Created all the L-1011 models)


In addition to commemorating Flight 401, the creative talent behind the exhibit is seeking to help survivors raise the funding needed to create a permanent large-scale memorial to Flight 401’s victims and survivors in the City of Miami Springs, once home to a thriving Eastern Air Lines community.

To make a donation:
By Check: National Air Disaster Foundation (Memo line: “Eastern 401”)
Mailed to:
National Air Disaster Foundation
2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #315
Washington, DC 20006

By Credit Card:
Visit www.PlaneSafe.org, Click: “Contribute”, and make sure to enter “Eastern 401” in the “Your public posted comment” space.