ValuJet Flight 592 Crash The ValuJet Flight 592 plane was a regularly scheduled flight from the Miami International Airport to Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the cockpit was pilots Kubeck Candalyn and Richard Hazen who had over 20,700 flight hours total between the too combined. On May 11, 1996, the McDonell-Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades after shortly taking off from the airport. It crashed as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by improperly stored cargo, killing all 110 people on board. The aircraft had suffered a number of incidents in the past two years prior to the crash, which included aborted takeoffs and emergency landings. On the afternoon of May 11, 1996 Flight
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They did an examination of the debris and it suggests that the fire burned through the floorboards of the cockpit, which then resulted in failure and damage to the cables underneath the instrument panels. However they also said it was likely that the crew had become incapacitated by the smoke and fumes. Power was lost to the cockpit voice recorder about fifty five seconds before impact, so it made it impossible to prove either scenario with an absolute certainty. Kubeck, Hazen, the three flight attendants, and all of the 105 passengers aboard the plane were killed almost instantly. The recovery of the victim’s body’s and the aircraft parts were extremely difficult because of the location of the crash. The closest road there was to the crash was more than a quarter mile away and the location was a deep water swamp with a floor of solid limestone. The plane was destroyed on impact with no big pieces remaining. Another part of the reason that recovery was so difficult was saw grass, alligators, and risk of bacterial infection made it difficult for searchers involved in the recovery. There was a group of fisherman nearby that witnessed the plane crash and reported that “The plane was flying in a steep right bank, after which it turned so that the nose was facing downward in a nearly vertical angle. It plummeted into the swamp followed by an explosion, then a shock wave, and finally a massive geyser of water.” They said they saw no visible outside damage to the plane or any sign of a fire or smoke other than the engine exhaust. There was also a group of sightseers in a small private plane that gave an almost exact identical eyewitness account, they said that the plane seemed like it disappeared after it made impact with the swamp and they couldn’t see anything but small scattered debris and part of the engine nearby of the plane crash
They did an examination of the debris and it suggests that the fire burned through the floorboards of the cockpit, which then resulted in failure and damage to the cables underneath the instrument panels. However they also said it was likely that the crew had become incapacitated by the smoke and fumes. Power was lost to the cockpit voice recorder about fifty five seconds before impact, so it made it impossible to prove either scenario with an absolute certainty. Kubeck, Hazen, the three flight attendants, and all of the 105 passengers aboard the plane were killed almost instantly. The recovery of the victim’s body’s and the aircraft parts were extremely difficult because of the location of the crash. The closest road there was to the crash was more than a quarter mile away and the location was a deep water swamp with a floor of solid limestone. The plane was destroyed on impact with no big pieces remaining. Another part of the reason that recovery was so difficult was saw grass, alligators, and risk of bacterial infection made it difficult for searchers involved in the recovery. There was a group of fisherman nearby that witnessed the plane crash and reported that “The plane was flying in a steep right bank, after which it turned so that the nose was facing downward in a nearly vertical angle. It plummeted into the swamp followed by an explosion, then a shock wave, and finally a massive geyser of water.” They said they saw no visible outside damage to the plane or any sign of a fire or smoke other than the engine exhaust. There was also a group of sightseers in a small private plane that gave an almost exact identical eyewitness account, they said that the plane seemed like it disappeared after it made impact with the swamp and they couldn’t see anything but small scattered debris and part of the engine nearby of the plane crash