Six minutes after takeoff from Miami, a routine climb turns into a fight for control that lasts less than four minutes. Join Alice and Zach as they trace a chain of small decisions — made in a maintenance hangar weeks earlier — that put something dangerous where nobody expected it, and the regulator that had been warned about exactly this kind of failure eight years before it happened.

Sources

• Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, NTSB/AAR-97/06 - National Transportation Safety Board (August 1997)
• United States v. SabreTech, Inc., 271 F.3d 1018 - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (October 31, 2001)
• "Flight crew shared love of aviation" - St. Petersburg Times, May 14, 1996
• "Enough Blame To Go Around In ValuJet Crash" by Mark Sherman, Cox News Service - The Spokesman-Review, August 19, 1997
• "ValuJet Flight 592" original crash coverage - The Miami Herald, May 12, 1996
• "There was another tragedy in Miami after Eastern Flight 401. What happened with ValuJet" by Grethel Aguila - The Miami Herald, December 21, 2022
• "FBI offers $10,000 reward for fugitive mechanic wanted in 1996 fatal airline crash" by Carli Teproff - The Miami Herald, April 6, 2018
• "$250 Million to Families of Passengers who Died in the May 1996 ValuJet crash" - Podhurst Orseck firm landmark cases page
• "Mishandled Hazardous Materials Results in Commercial Airplane Crash Lawsuit: Hyatt v. ValuJet Flight 592" - Slack Davis case summary
• "We're Losing EVERYTHING…" Valujet 592 - Mentour Pilot YouTube channel

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Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.