Posted on 05/12/2011 7:41:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MIAMI — Robert Woodus III never met his father, who died eight months before his birth in 1996.
But on Wednesday the 14-year-old eighth-grader stood near the place his father died, in a watery Everglades prairie where ValuJet Flight 592 plunged to earth in a fiery crash just north of U.S. 41.
"I was thinking about this place, and what happened before I was born," said Woodus. His father, Robert Woodus Jr., was one of 110 people who died in what remains Florida's deadliest air crash.
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...and AirTran was born.
For some reason I remember that day quite well. Prayers for the lost and their families.
(aircraft tire) + (bubble wrap) + (many oxygen generators) == (heartache)
If memory serves, this was an attempted Arkinside
AirTragedy
A company called SabreTech was held mainly responsible for improperly storing hazardous materials in the plane’s cargo holds.
But someone on Billi-bob's enemies list was booked on the flight. Yes.
Ah, OK. I seem to recall a then-active NFL player died in the crash.
Yes, Rodney Culver of the San Diego Chargers.
/Chargers fan.
//Still remember that day
And wonderful musician Walter Hyatt
I had a flight early the next morning. There were TV crews trying to get passengers on camera. Very eerie.
“For some reason I remember that day quite well.”
I was sitting in a bar at St. Louis Airport, waiting for a connection flight when this happened, and everyone in the area was watching CNN on the monitors.
The know-nothing woman who used to work for the FAA, came on CNN blaming “Those old airplanes Valujet flies!” for the crash.
I was incredulous, and noted to those sitting around me to take a look out the window at these TWA planes. They were the Oldest fleet flying at that time.
Valujet was crippling Delta at the time, and she consulted for Delta, as I recall.
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