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On May 11, 1996, ValuJet Flight 592, a DC-9 she was piloting, crashed into the Florida Everglades just ten minutes after take-off. The disaster was caused when expired oxygen generators illegally stored in the cargo hold started a fire.
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....
Accident. On the afternoon of May 11, 1996, Flight 592 left Gate G2 in Miami after a delay of one hour and four minutes because of electrical problems. [1] There were 110 people on board: 105 passengers, mainly from Florida and Georgia, and a crew of two pilots and three flight attendants.
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 · 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.
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 · 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.
