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  2. ValuJet Flight 592 - Wikipedia

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    ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).

  3. Candi Kubeck - Wikipedia

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    Candalyn "Candi" Kubeck (née Chamberlin, May 10, 1961 – May 11, 1996) was an American commercial airline pilot and the captain of ValuJet Flight 592.This flight crashed into the Everglades in 1996, after oxygen generators illegally placed inside a cargo hold, which started and maintained a fire that disrupted aircraft functionality and flooded the entire cabin and cockpit with smoke.

  4. List of Seconds from Disaster episodes - Wikipedia

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    ValuJet Flight 592, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 with 110 people on board, is bound for Atlanta, Georgia from Miami, Florida. Suddenly a fire starts in the cabin and cockpit, so large it consumed in flames and the crew are incapacitated by the smoke. The jet loses control and goes down in the Everglades, leaving no survivors.

  5. Florida history: Remembering the Everglades ValuJet ... - AOL

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    Aircraft slammed nose-first into the swamplands of the Everglades National Park just west of the Miami International Airport minutes into the air. There were no survivors.

  6. ValuJet Airlines - Wikipedia

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    On May 11, 1996, ValuJet suffered its highest-profile accident when Flight 592, a DC-9 flying from Miami to Atlanta, crashed into the Florida Everglades; all 110 people on board died. The crash was caused by an onboard fire triggered by full but expired chemical oxygen generators illegally stowed in the cargo hold without safety caps. The ...

  7. There was another tragedy in Miami after Eastern Flight 401 ...

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    Until May 11, 1996, Eastern Flight 401 was the deadliest aviation disaster in South Florida history. That was the day ValuJet Flight 592 nosedived into the swamp, 23 years after the Eastern plane ...

  8. Mary Schiavo - Wikipedia

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    In the book's analysis of the ValuJet Flight 592 Crash, Schiavo reviewed evidence that showed the FAA had to have known ValuJet was quite unsafe. Schiavo believed the FAA wanted ValuJet to survive, leading it to take a lax view of overseeing and enforcing rules. Due to Schiavo's objections, the FAA grounded ValuJet for much of the summer of 1996.

  9. What an Average Home Cost in the Year You Were Born - AOL

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    1996 was a difficult year for aviation, with ValuJet Flight 592 crashing into the Florida Everglades and TWA Flight 800 exploding in mid-air off the coast of New York. After an 18-year search, the ...