NTSB to Begin Hearing Into ValuJet Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board will open a weeklong hearing today to further the investigation into the crash of ValuJet Inc.’s Flight 592, which plunged into Florida’s Everglades May 11, killing all 110 people on board. “In this day and age, accidents like this one just should not happen,” NTSB board member John Goglia, who will preside over the hearing, said in a statement. Though determination of the cause is probably still months away, much has been learned, and much has changed, since the jet sank into the muck of the Everglades, spurring what officials at the time called the longest and most arduous recovery effort in aviation history.