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Still waiting for my reply...</font>
You didn't reply to my question asking if you work for AirTran. It's hard to imagine anyone but an employee being so blind.
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dbaker: the aircraft in 9/11 weren't grounded b/c officials knew that AA and UA weren't the reason it happened rather easily. When an airplane crashes w/o a solid reason, then officials had to spend more time finding out. BTW: VJet did a voluntary shutdown.</font>
Aircraft do not crash without solid reason. AirTran was grounded after the FAA found them to be unsafe. A "voluntary shutdown" is the same thing as being told that you will be shut down if you don't do it yourself.
According to CNN:
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The Atlanta-based airline suspended operations at midnight after a federal inspection found deficiencies in the carrier's operations. The airline has said it hopes to resume service within 30 days.
The Federal Aviation Administration investigation came after a ValuJet DC-9 crashed May 11 in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/18/valujet.reax/
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal Aviation Administration administrator David Hinson announced Monday that ValuJet had agreed to a temporary halt in operations until "serious deficiencies" in the low-fare carrier's operations were corrected.
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"The agency's 30-day intensive inspection found several serious deficiencies in ValuJet's operation," Hinson said.
Those deficiencies included a failure to establish the air- worthiness of some of ValuJet's airliners, deficiencies in the carrier's maintenance program, shortcomings in quality assurance of ValuJet's maintenance contractors, and a strong weakness in engineering capability in the carrier's maintenance support organization.
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/17/valuje...ded/index.html