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...write in The Survivors Club about the "myth of hopelessness." People think that all plane crashes are fatal. That's because of TWA 800 and Egypt Air and ValuJet and Pan Am 103 and all these other flight names and numbers that are emblazoned in our mind because everybody died. But in fact, if you look at the last two major incidents involving passenger jets in the United States, in Denver and now this one - I'm assuming from the CNN reporting that they think everyone is safe - but in both of the major incidents, the plane that went...
...memo from the field, written three months before the May 11 crash, proved highly embarrassing to the FAA and helped force the agency to re-evaluate its self-assured contention that ValuJet was a "safe airline...
Spurred by the gruesome deaths and public outrage, FAA inspectors examined ValuJet's own books and discovered so many egregious violations that the carrier was grounded within weeks--on June 17. The resulting consent order between ValuJet and the FAA listed 34 violations going back three years, breaching every type of regulation.ValuJet agreed not to fight its grounding and paid $2 million toward the FAA's cost of reinspecting planes. It was not a penalty; in fact, the airline bought itself a virtually clean slate. "The FAA agrees that, except for violations of regulations concerning hazardous materials and civil aviation...
...knew the FAA was to blame; my senior staff agreed, and Congress had heard from us that this was the case. And we knew ValuJet was not alone. Shoddy inspections were an FAA plague. Exposing them had occupied me since my first year...
...spare the airlines any inconvenience. Inspections of planes, pilots, mechanics and repair stations were so unreliable as to be virtually useless. Fortunately, most of the time savvy and diligent airlines filled the gap. But it was inevitable that the inspection process would eventually break down at an airline like ValuJet, creating the perfect conditions for a deadly crash...