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additional sources on safety, ValuJet Flight 597[edit]

https://books.google.com/books?id=xDDSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=valujet+flight+597&source=bl&ots=J3If4ViDFq&sig=0qEYF3lXFxqcz4Aos1PGf7iZkeE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV06XznaPXAhVBzIMKHY_FBeA4ChDoAQhQMAg#v=onepage&q=valujet%20flight%20597&f=false

This book contains a good brief summary of the near-disaster and close call of Flight 597 (June 1995). Cool Nerd (talk) 20:28, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/01/us/one-grave-for-victims-of-everglades-crash.html

' . . The plane, Valujet Flight 597, was beginning its takeoff on June 8, 1995, for a flight to Miami when an engine failed, sending pieces of metal smashing into the fuselage of the and igniting a fire.

' . . The crew was able to halt the plane and evacuate the passengers. Nobody died in the accident, but a flight attendant suffered burns and puncture wounds.'

criticism of name change from ValuJet to AirTran[edit]

Top 10 Worst Corporate Name Changes: ValuJet? What's ValuJet?, Time magazine, 2016.

' . . . In a corporate disappearing act, the troubled airline bought a smaller rival and adopted its name, becoming AirTran Airways. . . '

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ValuJet Buys Airline --and a New Name, Los Angeles Times (from Associated Press), July 11, 1997.

' . . . ValuJet is buying a much smaller airline, AirTran Airways, from Airways Corp. for $66.3 million worth of stock and taking its name. . . '

First step, let's just see what the references say. Cool Nerd (talk) 21:04, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not very well sourced but this is already mentioned in the ValuJet Airlines article. MilborneOne (talk) 21:16, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, let's add these two! :-) Cool Nerd (talk) 18:30, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I presume you mean the ValuJet Airlines article as it is not relevant here. MilborneOne (talk) 19:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ValuJet and AirTran confusion[edit]

ValuJet Airlines was not renamed to AirTran Airlines and then AirTran Airways. Heres what happened, there were two airlines owned by the same holding company called AirTran, the original- AirTran Airways and the second one- AirTran Airlines which was formerly ValuJet Airlines. AirTran Airways and AirTran Airlines was combined under one operating certificate, but it has been assumed for a long time that AirTran Airways was merged into AirTran Airlines and then AirTran Airlines was renamed to AirTran Airways. No, that's not what happened. AirTran Airlines was merged into AirTran Airways. The original AirTran airline- AirTran Airways, was the surviving airline while the second AirTran airline- AirTran Airlines (formerly ValuJet Airlines), was not the surviving airline. So the ValuJet Airlines accidents should be removed from the accidents table or state these accidents did not happen with the airline, but these accidents did have an affect with AirTran Airways. Yes, the AirTran management was the ValuJet management, but ValuJet Airlines did not survive the merger. ValuJet Airlines was merged into AirTran Airways when it was known as AirTran Airlines. I do have a bunch of references to back that up.Granthew (talk) 03:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]