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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 said....
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.
16 wrz 2005 · Flight crew shared love of aviation. Candalyn "Candi" Kubeck felt destined to fly. The granddaughter of a World War I biplane pilot, she enrolled in flying lessons at age 15. When she grew up,...
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment probably caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).
In the flight deck were two experienced pilots: Captain Candi Kubeck, aged 35, and First Officer Richard Hazen, 52. Captain Kubeck had accumulated 8,928 total flight hours throughout her career (including 2,116 hours on the DC-9) and First Officer Hazen had more than 11,800 total flight hours throughout his career, with 2,148 of them on the DC-9.
14 maj 1996 · In the second incident, on Sept. 2, 1994, the records indicate that Mrs. Kubeck was forced to skid her plane sideways to avoid overshooting the end of a short, rain-slick runway in Chicago.
