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| − | '''ValuJet Flight 592''', a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane, crashed in the [[Florida]] [[Everglades]] | + | '''ValuJet Flight 592''', a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane, crashed in the [[Florida]] [[Everglades]] on May 11, 1996, killing all 110 on board. The cause was the of loading [[oxygen]] canisters as cargo. The investigation revealed that the canisters labeled as "expired" on the tags by SabreTech, but "oxygen cannisters-empty" on the cargo manifest. ValuJet contracted out SabreTech to the dispose of the oxygen generators, only for them to end on a ValuJet plane in the cargo hold. An oxygen generator can reach 430° degrees Celsius, as demonstrated by previous incidents of oxygen generators starting fires on commercial aircraft.<ref>https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19860810-0</ref><ref name=AAR97-06>[http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9706.pdf "NTSB Report AAR97-06"]</ref> |
| − | Because of this incident ValuJet | + | Because of this incident ValuJet merged into AirTran and assumed its name. This allowed ValuJet to recover and even increase operations, considering their infamous safety record.<ref>http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/05/after_valujet_t.html</ref> |
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ValuJet Flight 592, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane, crashed in the Florida Everglades on May 11, 1996, killing all 110 on board. The cause was the of loading oxygen canisters as cargo. The investigation revealed that the canisters labeled as "expired" on the tags by SabreTech, but "oxygen cannisters-empty" on the cargo manifest. ValuJet contracted out SabreTech to the dispose of the oxygen generators, only for them to end on a ValuJet plane in the cargo hold. An oxygen generator can reach 430° degrees Celsius, as demonstrated by previous incidents of oxygen generators starting fires on commercial aircraft.[1][2]
Because of this incident ValuJet merged into AirTran and assumed its name. This allowed ValuJet to recover and even increase operations, considering their infamous safety record.[3]