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Candalyn "Candi" Kubeck (née Chamberlin, May 10, 1961 – May 11, 1996) was an American commercial airline pilot and the captain of ValuJet Flight 592.
14 maj 1996 · Kubeck, 35, believed to be the first woman commercial jetliner captain to perish in a U.S. crash, was “very experienced, very well-trained, very competent,” ValuJet President Lewis Jordan...
11 maj 1996 · Candy is believed to be the first woman commercial jetliner captain to die in a U.S. crash. Kubeck was raised in the San Diego area and often saw military aircraft fly over her house which inspired her to fly airplanes.
14 maj 1996 · Kubeck, believed to be the first woman commercial jetliner captain to die in a U.S. crash, was among 109 people killed Saturday when her ValuJet plane nose-dived into the Florida Everglades. But she didn't love flying enough to take chances, her husband said Monday.
3 sty 2021 · When Captain Candi Kubeck said: “We need to go back to Miami”, the crew knew that this was the turning point of life or death. While the pilots were overwhelmed by the perilous situation, the smoke gradually started to take over them while the DC-9 was in a nose dive.
Captain Candi Kubeck fought to save her plane til the very end, RIP ... I have family down in FL and I'm sure they heard all about it. I live in VA, by the way. My first impressions (albeit incorrect) of the crash is that when the plane hit the ground (and sank) it remained mostly intact, and that the angle at which the aircraft hit wasn't that ...
14 maj 2022 · At 14:10 the pilots heard a strange sound which had the captain of the flight, 35-year-old Candi Kubeck saying, "what was that?". At the time of the peculiar noise, the aircraft was at an altitude of 10,634 feet with an airspeed of 260 knots.
