[SnuffaBolshevik]

Anyone remember that plane in south Florida where the oxygen generators in the cargo hold caught fire?

Smoked everyone including the crew and it augured straight down into the swamp.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

augered.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I do remember that....ValuJet wasn’t it?

[Uri’el-2012]

Anyone remember that plane in south Florida where the oxygen generators in the cargo hold caught fire?

Smoked everyone including the crew and it augured straight down into the swamp.

That was an Arkincide hit.

[cyclotic]

My dad casually knew some passengers on that flight

[Churchillspirit]

Yes, I remember that incident in the Florida Everglades.

IIRC fumes built up in empty containers. Or is that a different event ?The airline was not one of the big ones.

[RckyRaCoCo]

I worked for ValueJet for a(very)brief time. They at least had some communications with ATC before the fire damaged control/other systems on-board. Same with the Alaska Airlines MD-80 off the coast of CA. when a jammed/stripped horizontal stabilizer jack-screw caused it to corkscrew into the ocean.

Could be a lot of things, but the non-communication over the period of time it descended seems odd.

Hopefully the FDR/CVR will provide the answers...as it did in AF447.