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...billed as a dry, fact-finding inquiry. But testimony from last week's National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the May 11 ValuJet crash that took 110 lives left victims' relatives in tears as they listened to a sickening account of an avoidable tragedy...
With travelers already leery following the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s...
...stay in place until a successor is named. It's likely that more departures are in the works. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, a former Harvard professor, has been commuting from his home in Boston for months. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena earned demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after its passenger jet crashed in the Everglades, but might stay in the job if Bill Daley, brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, doesn't get it. The White House reportedly would like to get rid of Janet Reno, but the highly popular attorney general would...
...VALUJET Troubled carrier returns to the skies with seven planes and $19 one-way fares...
ATLANTA: Conventional wisdom holds that the safest time to fly is right after a plane crash raises concerns over safety. That and an astonishingly low $19 one-way airfare on some routes is what company officials hope will bring travelers back to ValuJet. The airline began operations again today, 15 weeks after flights were suspended June 17th in the aftermath of the May plane crash in the Everglades that that killed all 110 people aboard. After a lengthy review, ValuJet persuaded the Federal Aviation Administration its planes are safe. Not everyone is convinced. The association of Flight Attendants union filed...