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	business@ugusta: ValuJet Loses $21.9 Million in Third Quarter 11/13/96
		ValuJet was grounded for all but one day during the July-September period, in which it incurred another $23 million in expenses related to the crash of Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades on May 11.
		ValuJet was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration for 15 weeks starting June 17 because of safety concerns following the crash, which left 110 dead.
		ValuJet stock, which is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, opened at $10.75 Tuesday morning and was up to $11 by midday.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/111396/valujet.html (699 words)

	ValuJet Crash Behind Air Safety Changes - CBS News
		ValuJet's maintenance contractor at the time, SabreTech, was convicted in state court in 1999 of recklessly supplying the oxygen generators and went out of business.
		ValuJet, at the time of the crash a growing no-frills airline, was grounded for three months after Flight 592 went down.
		Many Valujet family members have sought to create something of their own to remember loved ones, from a basketball tournament in North Carolina that raised money to send poor kids to camp, to a Methodist church in Venezuela built in honor of one victim.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/05/10/ap/national/mainD8HH61T0L.shtml (969 words)

	FAA grounds ValuJet's fleet
		A ValuJet spokesman said the FAA action was "grossly unfair, because the carrier has been denied the opportunity to respond to the FAA's concerns." ValuJet has begun a return-to-service plan and hopes to resume flights in about 30 days, the spokesman said.
		ValuJet now faces the formidable task of refunding the money of the thousands of customers who stuck to ValuJet despite the delays, cancellations and cutbacks imposed since the crash of Flight 592.
		ValuJet, the second-busiest carrier at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, last week said its flights were booked solid for the Olympics.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/06/18/valujet.html (681 words)

	Adam Smith's Invisible Hand at ValuJet
		Valujet has recognized the fact that customers work hard for their money, and that they pay outrageous prices especially if it is cheaper to drive.
		Valujet's fares can be as low as they are because the company's operating costs are among the lowest in the industry.
		Valujet's initial public stock price has flown through the roof, and that is without mentioning the two-for-one spit in their stock in April, 1995 and a second on November 21, 1995.
	members.aol.com /geo13/valujet.htm (1615 words)

	1-96-CV-1355-JTC ValuJet Class Action Consolidated Amended Complaint
		ValuJet's corporate culture, which strived to cut costs without apparent regard for the maintenance or safety of its airplane fleet, led to a substantial number of FAA violations and reports that eventually resulted in the Company's agreement to cease operations.
		ValuJet does not operate in the hub-and-spokes configuration which is typical in the airline industry, but rather seeks to turn-around its aircraft as quickly as possible (average 30 minutes) and, in turn, maximize aircraft utilization (10 hours per day for ValuJet versus seven to eight for most hub-and-spokes airline operations).
		ValuJet and the Individual Defendants moved quickly to calm the markets and assure investors that the FAA surveillance was nothing more than a bump in the road and that the Company would shortly resume its expansion.
	securities.stanford.edu /1007/VJET96/015.html (15395 words)

	ValuJet Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ValuJet Airlines (IATA: J7, ICAO: VJA, and Callsign: Critter) was a low-cost carrier that operated in the Southeastern United States during the 1990s.
		ValuJet's first flight was on October 26, 1993, with service from Atlanta to Orlando, Jacksonville and Tampa with a single Douglas DC-9 that had previously belonged to its chief competitor, Delta Air Lines.
		ValuJet's accident rate was ten times that of the ten major airlines in the U.S. In fact, ValuJet planes made fifteen emergency landings in 1994, fifty-seven in 1995, and fifty-seven from January through May of 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ValuJet (1069 words)

	CNN - Oxygen canisters aboard ValuJet raise questions - May 16, 1996
		And, in another development, ValuJet confirmed that the 110th victim -- a child carried on the plane by her parents -- was a 4-year-old girl, not an infant as earlier believed.
		The ValuJet canisters were prepared for shipment by an employee of one of the repair facilities used by ValuJet in the Miami area, the Post said.
		ValuJet also is barred from bidding on Pentagon air passenger contracts such as charter flights, officials said.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /US/9605/16/valujet.11 (681 words)

	stewart ugelow - faa’s flaws exposed in valujet shutdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Federal Aviation Administration’s shutdown of ValuJet Airlines —; less than six weeks after FAA officials had insisted that the airline was safe — has raised questions about the agency’s ability to ensure the safety of the U.S. airline industry.
		ValuJet said there was no evidence that maintenance was to blame for the crash.
		ValuJet announced it would temporarily suspend flights but called the FAA’s action "grossly unfair" because it said it had been denied the opportunity to respond to the agency’s concerns.
	www.ugelow.com /1996/06/19/faa-valujet (1009 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento investigates: "Flight From Reality - The ValuJet Cover-Up."
		ValuJet has "in some cases even exceeded the safety standards that we have at the FAA," he said at a May 12 briefing in the Everglades, less than twenty-four hours after the crash.
		The attendants' request was denied, and on August 29 the FAA gave ValuJet tentative approval to resume certain flights.
		One ValuJet flight attendant, she says, "called the FAA emergency hotline and reported a safety violation, and the FAA pretty much blew it off, saying it was a union matter.
	www.fumento.com /valujet.html (2238 words)

	ValuJet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Certificate Vignette ValuJet Airlines, Inc., was a large regional airline that offered affordable, no-frills, limited-frequency, short-haul flights primarily in the eastern United States.
		ValuJet Airlines was incorporated in July 1992 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of ValuJet Inc. in October 1995.
		ValuJet's rapid growth since starting no-frills service in 1993 came to a halt with the crash of Flight 592 in 1996, and a subsequent grounding.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,valujet,345493.html (238 words)

	CNN - ValuJet, if it flies again, will be smaller and poorer - June 20, 1996
		If ValuJet flies again, it will be limited initially to using only 15 of the more than 50 DC-9 jetliners it had in service before the crash.
		The FAA has been conducting investigations into ValuJet's safety since February, prompted by the discovery of a number of regulatory violations by the airline in the past year.
		Four thousand ValuJet employees attended a private town meeting in Atlanta Wednesday, and were told that all should still have their jobs once the airline resumes flights.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /US/9606/20/valujet.fight.flight (643 words)

	ValuJet Airlines happy to return to skies after 15-week grounding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ValuJet was not authorized to carry the generators and blamed a subcontractor for mislabeling them.
		Valujet was cleared by federal regulators last week to resume limited operations.
		ValuJet's return sparked heavy trading of its stock, with 5 million shares changing hands on the Nasdaq.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/100196/valujet.htm (393 words)

	Court TV Legal Documents: ValuJet Crash Wrongful Death Suit
		The son of Laurese Perkins, one of the passengers on ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed en route to Miami, filed this May 14, 1996 wrongful death suit, claiming that the airline and its maintenance contractor are negligent.
		VALUJET AIRLINES, by and through its agents, employees, and representatives, breached the duty of care owed to Plaintiff in some or all of, but not limited to, the following regards: a.
		Notwithstanding this knowledge, VALUJET AIRLINES and its agents and employees, acting within the course and scope of their employment, inter alia, failed and refused, to warn the passengers of Flight 592 of the known dangers and/or failed to protect those passengers from the known risks and by failing to take precautionary measures.
	www.courttv.com /legaldocs/business/valujet.html (1607 words)

	Online NewsHour: The aftermath of ValuJet Flight 592 crash -- May 13, 1996
		David Hinson, FAA administrator, said travelers flying on ValuJet are safe, but Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Fackler Schiavo questioned the safety of ValuJet and other "off-brand" airlines.
		ValuJet is a very rapidly growing airline that started operating in late 1993 and today has approximately 50 airplanes.
		We brought in 11 inspectors from the outside, that is to say not assigned to ValuJet, so we had a fresh look, and in that special inspection, we did turn up some issues that we thought the airline should deal with but none which would be disqualifying or particularly unsafe.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/transportation/may96/valujet_hinson_5-13.html (1190 words)

	CNN - Mixed verdict in SabreTech trial over ValuJet crash - December 6, 1999
		Valenzuela is on the run and faces charges of contempt of court for failing to comply with his conditions of pretrial release.
		They were mislabeled as empty, and a ValuJet ground crew loaded them onto the plane.
		ValuJet, now merged with AirTran, was not named in the federal indictment.
	archives.cnn.com /1999/US/12/06/valujet.verdict.02 (866 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Last Modified: 5/12/2006 8:01:28 AM A decade ago, a ValuJet DC-9 with 105 passengers and a crew of five crashed in the Florida Everglades when a fire broke out in the cargo hold.
		For discounter ValuJet, May 11, 1996 was the beginning of the end.
		Oxygen generators -- like the ones that caused the fire in the ValuJet DC-9 cargo hold that led to the Everglades crash -- were banned on passenger flights.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=79743 (329 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 05/11/2006 \| Legacy of ValuJet crash: improved air safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For Lee Sawyer, who lost both her parents when ValuJet Flight 592 plummeted into the Everglades, the memories and the pain are shockingly fresh.
		A chain of events led to the ValuJet accident, which Goglia called ''100 percent preventable.'' Procedures were not followed, and nobody caught the missteps.
		ValuJet had not properly supervised its maintenance contractor; SabreTech employees failed to properly prepare and package the oxygen generators; and the FAA failed to adequately regulate start-up airlines such as ValuJet and to require smoke detection and suppression systems in DC-9 cargo compartments.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/14550556.htm (1143 words)

	CNN - The crash of ValuJet Flight 592
		It was a Saturday afternoon, another day in the short but successful life of ValuJet, a three-year-old discount airline; an afternoon in which more than 100 people in Miami -- some on their way somewhere for Mother's Day visits -- boarded ValuJet Flight 592 bound for Atlanta.
		ValuJet 592 crash to be blamed on oxygen canisters
		ValuJet, if it flies again, will be smaller and poorer
	www.cnn.com /US/valujet.592 (235 words)

	CNN.com - Correction: SabreTech to pay $11 million over ValuJet crash - August 14, 2000
		The investigation also established that boxes containing oxygen generators were loaded by ValuJet ramp agents at the direction of the first officer, and two former SabreTech contract employees were acquitted of all charges against them.
		SabreTech was convicted of eight counts of recklessly failing to comply with the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations and one count of willingly failing to properly train its employees in the handling of hazardous materials.
		Valujet was not authorized to carry hazardous cargo, such as this potentially explosive oxygen canister, similar to the ones aboard Flight 592
	archives.cnn.com /2000/LAW/08/14/valujetcrash.01/index.html (764 words)

	CNN - Transcript of final moments of ValuJet Flight 592 released - Nov. 17, 1996
		MIAMI (CNN) -- Recordings made in the cockpit of ValuJet Flight 592 reveal shouts of "Fire!" from the passenger cabin just before the DC-9 plunged into the Everglades on May 11, killing all 110 people aboard.
		While no official cause of the crash has been named, sources have told CNN that improperly packed oxygen generators stowed in the DC-9's cargo hold caused the fire that brought down the plane.
		ValuJet 592 crash to be blamed on oxygen canisters - November 15, 1996
	www.cnn.com /US/9611/18/valujet.recordings/index.html (336 words)

	ValuJet on comeback trail - May 9, 1997
		Still, ValuJet has $138 million in the bank and is expecting a $38 million tax refund.
		"ValuJet has met and meets our very high standards of aviation safety and have continued to meet additional standards that we require as a result of the consent order," said Guy Gardner, the FAA's associate administrator for regulation and certification.
		Earlier this week, ValuJet reported that 78.6 percent of its flights arrived within 15 minutes or less of schedule.
	money.cnn.com /1997/05/09/companies/valujet_pkg (679 words)

	CNN - SabreTech, employees found not guilty of conspiracy in ValuJet crash - December 6, 1999
		MIAMI (CNN) -- A Florida jury on Monday found airline maintenance company SabreTech Inc. guilty on nine counts of mishandling hazardous materials in the ValuJet crash that killed 110 people in 1996 -- but acquitted the company along with two employees of more serious conspiracy charges.
		Crash investigators blamed the crash on a cargo fire caused by used generators removed by SabreTech from other ValuJet planes and delivered by SabreTech to the ill-fated flight.
		In July, a federal indictment accused SabreTech, its maintenance supervisor Daniel Gonzalez, and mechanics Eugene Florence and Mauro Valenzuela with conspiracy to put the company's financial interests ahead of safety and making false statements to the FAA and the Department of Transportation.
	edition.cnn.com /1999/US/12/06/valujet.verdict.01/index.html (656 words)

	Report Slamming ValuJet and FAA Ignored, Official Says
		Earlier in the day, an FAA manager testified that his call for an immediate review of ValuJet's right to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades was ignored by his supervisor.
		Then ValuJet loaded the gun and gave it to SabreTech, who pulled the trigger,'' said Walker, shaking her head, her face grim.
		ValuJet's problems went beyond mere growth, Goglia said, noting that the airline had 15 emergency landings, including five engine failures, in 1994 when it had a fleet of 14.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/112396/report.htm (724 words)

	TIME.com: DEATH IN THE EVERGLADES -- May 20, 1996 -- Page 1
		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.
		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.
		Last June the crew of a ValuJet DC-9 taxiing in preparation for takeoff from Atlanta heard a loud bang as an engine failed, scattering shrapnel that injured seven passengers and causing a fire that spread to the fuselage.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,984555,00.html (845 words)

	ValuJet Flight 592 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The crash destroyed the credibility of the low-cost carrier ValuJet Airlines.
		It was determined that the fire was caused by the firing of expired chemical oxygen generators placed in the cargo compartment in a box marked 'Airplane Parts' by ValuJet's maintenance contractor, SabreTech.
		A pop and jolt traced in the air traffic control tape was attributed to a semi-inflated aircraft wheel (shipped with the oxygen generators) exploding in the high temperature fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592 (1406 words)

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