Within days of the crash of Flight 592, the following song was written by Rod MacDonald and performed in a small workshop at the Florida Folk Festival. The emcee, Dale Crider, was so moved by the song that he invited MacDonald to sing it during his own set later that evening on the mainstage. The song, "Deep Down In The Everglades," appears on MacDonald's 1999 release "Into the Blue" (Gadfly Records/US, Brambus Records/Switzerland), and is well known throughout Florida. Deep Down In The Everglades ©1996, 1999 Rod MacDonald/Blue Flute Music (ASCAP) A plane went down in the Everglades disappeared without a trace just a few pieces of metal left around the people in the seats, the luggage in the bays the carry-on bags and the beverage trays all vanished deep into that swampy ground. The park rangers built a gravel street so they could go out and search the debris but everyone was believed to be lost by the time they arrived that plane had gone no one even knew how far it had sunken down all they could find was a little black box (chorus) When a plane goes down the whole world watches the whole world says "How fragile is that thread of life we weave our fabric on" But deep down in the Everglades we can only stare at the place where an airliner from the great sky went down, rested for a moment and was gone. The media did their job all right they put a twenty-four hour crew at the site they even interviewed the guy who missed the plane And somebody invented a special suit so they could go down in pursuit in that primeval soup and get out the same. The victims' families came there too, they said there was nothing else they could do but stand on that swampy ground and say goodby and in the halls of power and high finance they speculated on the chance that airline could win the lawsuits and survive. home view cd Into The Blue