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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.
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.
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.
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.
14 maj 1996 · Candalyn Kubeck, the pilot of the Valujet DC-9 whose crash in Florida on Saturday killed all 109 people on board, spent most of her 35 years around pilots, airplanes and airports.
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.
