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Flight 592, on one of ValuJet's 51 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft, had taken off from Miami International bound for Atlanta when its crew reported smoke in the cockpit and turned the aircraft around for an emergency return to the airport. At about 2:25 p.m. Miami air-traffic control reported the jet had disappeared from its radar...
...degree angle in a 100-ft. spume of water, dirt and small fragments of debris. He then flew over the site and radioed for help. "The wreckage was like if you take your garbage and just throw it on the ground," he told CNN. Moments later Coast Guard aircraft and crews from the nearby Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show, then in progress, were dispatched to search for the aircraft, but they found only scattered pieces in a large discolored ellipse of marshland. The crash is the seventh worst in the U.S. since 1979, when 275 died in an American...
...procedures to the full extent of the law. Since the crash, the FAA has decided to move up and extend a previously scheduled seven-day checkup of the airline. The new investigation will focus on contract maintenance, cockpit resource management , internal processes for monitoring the maintenance of ValuJet aircraft, and dispatch and control of in-flight operations. The FAA continues to reassure passengers that the price of a ticket has nothing to do with the safety of an airline. -->