ABSTRACT
On May 11, 1996 a ValuJet DC-9-32, registration number N904VJ, crashed into the Florida Everglades exactly ten minutes after its departure from Miami International Airport. This chapter develops both theories of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and those who believe something else brought down the DC-9 on that sunny Florida afternoon. On November 6 and 7, 1996 the NTSB conducted a series of five tests at the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Fire Facility to test their theory on the likelihood that an oxygen canister started the fire that caused the crash of Flight 592. The ethical issue behind this accident directly relates to ValuJet's corporate responsibility rather than SabreTech, who became the scapegoat. During the NTSB investigation they interviewed a ValuJet Senior Vice President who served the company from June 1994 until he retired in February 1996, three months prior to the accident.
