Word: valujet
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...when ValuJet bid for a contract to ferry Defense Department personnel, Defense specialists had scrutinized ValuJet's books, inspected its facilities and talked to its pilots, mechanics and managers. The Defense Department had complaints about virtually everything, and its report was breathtaking in the scope of its condemnation. The answer: No contract. ValuJet is not good enough to fly our people...
...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...
...probed, I learned that FAA inspectors had looked at ValuJet planes nearly 5,000 times in the three years it had been flying yet had never reported any significant problems or concerns. What are the odds of that...
Schiavo told her staff that their office had to do something about the FAA's oversight of ValuJet...
...someone down to Atlanta to find out what's going on with ValuJet," I said, not feeling wise or clairvoyant, just afraid. "There's something wrong, and we've got to find out before someone dies...