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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...
...intention of stealing business from the wary giants. "We're not pulling traffic away from anyone," says Mark Morro, chairman of Air 21, which last December began flying Fokker F.28 4000s, leased from USAir, out of Fresno. "We're bringing passengers back to the airport." Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet, which bases its 47-plane fleet in Atlanta, says Delta, its looming neighbor at Hartsfield Airfield, has nothing to fear. "We stole people from their living rooms and automobiles," he insists, not from Delta flights. Maybe, but ValuJet earned $67.8 million last year on sales of $367.8 million, nearly triple...
...ValuJet's low fares undeniably attract customers who would otherwise have had to pay Delta's prices. Art Gilbert, 42, an insurance consultant from Baltimore, Maryland, recently traveled the 48 miles to Dulles Airport in northern Virginia to take a ValuJet flight to Atlanta. "I live closer to Baltimore's BWI Airport, but this flight is $400 cheaper than the other carriers," says Gilbert. "My round trip ticket cost...
...supply of idling aircraft is matched by a supply of idling airline executives. "The airline business is tough," says ValuJet's Jordan, "but it's all we really know." Jordan is a former president of Continental. KIWI CEO Jerry Murphy spent 24 years at Pan Am; Western Pacific's chairman, Ed Beauvais, started America West; and Air 21's chairman, Mark Morro, co-founded and was president of Wings West Airlines. They have seen, up close, airlines struggling and going under...
...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...