Almost two minutes before ValuJet Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades, its passengers and crew knew they were in serious trouble, and one man even used his cell phone to make one last call to ...

ValuJet was launched in 1993 by former executives ... a grinning airplane known as Critter. The company was proud of its unorthodox image. Flight attendants told jokes after the safety briefings.

The tapes show that the flight started normally enough, as Hazen contacted Miami departure air traffic control moments after takeoff at 2: 04 p.m. (ValuJet planes are nicknamed “critter” in ...

"Critter 558, you've lost the two wheels off the nose," a controller said. But there was no reply. The plane's radios weren't working. Documents about that Jan. 7 accident show why ValuJet was ...

The last AirTran flight.

The road to rehabilitation began in 1997 when ValuJet acquired AirTran, dumped its cartoon critter logo and moved its headquarters to Orlando from Atlanta. Next came a management shakeup in 1999 ...

ValuJet Flight 592 departed Miami International Airport on May 11, 1996, with it's intended destination Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The plane never made it out of South Florida.

ValuJet Flight 592, with 110 people on board, plunged into the Everglades after taking off from Miami International Airport on May 11, 1996. The DC-9 had traveled less than 100 miles west of the ...

ValuJet Airlines won tentative approval to return to the skies on Thursday as regulators declared the troubled carrier has upgraded operations to meet federal safety standards. The Federal ...

Relatives of the victims of ValuJet Flight 592 are meeting in the Florida Everglades to mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths. The May 11, 1996, crash killed 110 passengers and crew. The Atlanta ...