Word: valujet
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Just last month Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet Airlines, tried his best to ease concerns over whether his fast-growing no-frills airline was just as safe as any other. "ValuJet has never experienced a fatality," he said. On Saturday, however, he had the grim duty of announcing that a ValuJet DC-9 carrying 104 passengers and five crew members had plunged into the Everglades while trying to return to Miami International Airport, killing everyone aboard. The accident, in the midst of a 120-day surveillance of the airline's operations by the Federal Aviation Administration, seemed certain to increase...
DADE COUNTY, Florida: Workers recovered the flight data recorder from ValuJet flight 592 as the government launched an intensified safety review of the airline. The thirty pound data recorder, which investigators hope will yield clues into the cause of Saturday's crash, has been sent to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington for analysis. Recovery workers are continuing to look for the cockpit voice recorder. Salvage workers have filled body bags with pieces of human remains, but have found nothing larger than a knee among the shattered remains of the plane. TIME's Greg Anapu reports from Miami that...
DADE COUNTY, Florida: Workers recovered the flight data recorder from ValuJet flight 592 as the government launched an intensified safety review of the airline. The thirty pound data recorder, which investigators hope will yield clues into the cause of Saturday's crash, has been sent to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington for analysis. Recovery workers are continuing to look for the cockpit voice recorder. Salvage workers have filled body bags with pieces of human remains, but have found nothing larger than a knee among the shattered remains of the plane. TIME's Greg Anapu reports from Miami that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: ValuJet has experienced both rapid growth and some serious safety setbacks since it began operation in June of 1995. On the initial flight to Boston, the landing gear malfunctioned, prompting passengers to assume the crash position. A flight to Miami caught fire when the engines of the aging DC-9 exploded. Even though no fatalities occurred, the incidents prompted a review of the airline by the FAA. In its original review in February, the FAA found that ValuJet followed Federal Aviation rules, regulations and procedures to the full extent of the law. Since the crash...
...theme extends to corporate overhead. At ValuJet, Jordan conducts business from a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. Air 21 operates from a vintage Army Air Corps barracks at the Fresno airport. The furnishings are Holiday Inn castoffs and a pawnshop TV. In-flight meals are a rarity, and other economies are visible. Air 21 doesn't buy paper napkins; it gets them free from restaurants in Fresno that thereby gain advertising for their names...