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More than a year later, in the days after TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the public, politicians, investigators and grieving family members waited tensely while scuba divers searched for clues. Eventually the recorder was found, its body remarkably undamaged. But it played back only a millisecond of a mysterious loud noise. The box was one of the old models, and didn't have the extra capacity to record in the midst of a catastrophe like the one on TWA Flight...
...properly regulated ValuJet, its rapid growth might not have led to disaster. But that February in 1996, all that seemed clear to me was that the FAA simply did not know what to do with ValuJet. The airline's safety record had deteriorated almost in direct proportion to its growth. ValuJet pilots made 15 emergency landings in 1994 and were forced down 57 times in 1995. (I didn't know it yet, but that record would be surpassed within months with 59 emergency landings in the first part of 1996. From February through May that year, ValuJet would have...
...Weintrob's visit apparently prompted the FAA's Atlanta office to think twice about its conclusions and conduct its own quick re-evaluation of the ValuJet safety record...
...ValuJet had been troubled for months and that other marginal airlines were just as unsafe. Conclusions from the report Pena referred to were etched into my memory. It revealed that the cumulative safety rate of discount carriers was skewed because one of them, Southwest, had a nearly perfect safety record. Good grades for Southwest brought up the average for everybody. In contrast, ValuJet was singled out for its accident rate, 14 times as poor as that of the major carriers. So what was Pena talking about? The ValuJet crash thrust before the public the fact that an inferior airline...
...Hinson had always seemed genuinely determined to streamline the FAA and address safety as well as commercial interests. Yet I knew he had to have seen the agency's own account of the differences among air carriers. Hinson had to realize that within a few days of the disaster, records had revealed that the crashed plane was a used DC-9, serial number 901VJ, that had been plagued with faulty equipment and emergency landings since January. Watching Transportation and FAA officials, I realized there was no charitable way to characterize what they were doing--they were simply lying...