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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...
Flight 592, on one of ValuJet's 51 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft, had taken off from Miami International bound for Atlanta when its crew reported smoke in the cockpit and turned the aircraft around for an emergency return to the airport. At about 2:25 p.m. Miami air-traffic control reported the jet had disappeared from its radar...
...ValuJet is one of a new breed of low-price airlines that seek to take advantage of a large pool of pilots and flight attendants who found themselves out of jobs after layoffs at large airlines. It is so no-frills that ValuJet president Jordan uses a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. The strategy has proved a success for ValuJet. In 1993 the airline flew to Orlando and Tampa in Florida from Atlanta; today it serves 31 cities in 19 states. It reported that in April it had flown 50% more "revenue passenger miles" than...
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...