Originally Posted by ajax
...and that awful crash in the Everglades was brought about by the company's transporting undeclared oxygen canisters which caught fire in the cargo hold, the heat of which severed the link between the cockpit controls and the flaps/rudder.
It was not Valujet that did it. That was done by its maintenance contractor, without Valujet's knowledge and (IIRC) with a false declaration. Whatever faults Valujet may have had, this was not one of them.