Tragedy In The Everglades

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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ValuJet Flight 592 crashes into The Everglades killing everyone on board. Flight 592 begins a routine flight from Miami to Atlanta. Ten minutes into takeoff, electrical power is lost and smoke begins filling the passenger cabin. What happened to this flight that made it crash so quickly? Find out in this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod and and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/. Sponsored by Keeps. Go to http://keeps.com/blackboxdown to receive your first month of treatment for free! Also sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code BLACKBOXDOWN at http://manscaped.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	May 11th, 1996. Value jet 592 pushes back from the gate at Miami International Airport,
0:08.3	but an hour behind schedule, preparing to take a 90 minute flight to Atlanta, Georgia.
0:12.7	At 2.04 pm, the flight takes off and begins its climb.
0:16.0	Six minutes after takeoff, the pilots hear a loud bang in their headsets and notice a loss of
0:19.9	electrical power. Passengers start smelling smoke and then see it begin filling the cabin.
0:24.1	The pilots request immediate return of the airport, but less than four minutes later,
0:27.6	at 2.13 pm, the plane plunges nearly vertically in excess of 500 miles per hour into the
0:32.9	Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board perish on impact. What causes
0:38.0	plane to plunge out of the sky so quickly after takeoff? Let's find out together in this episode of Black
0:42.6	Boxdown. Hey everyone, welcome to this episode of Black Boxdown, our podcast all about aviation
0:50.6	incidents as always, I'm Gus and I'm joined by Chris. Hi, I'm Chris. I'm good. We're here to talk
0:56.0	about Valleyjet 592, a little bit of an older flight 96. I guess it's not that old, but no,
1:02.2	24 years ago. It's been a while. I remember this one when it happened. I think it happened right
1:06.3	around the time I was graduating from high school. So I don't know why it sticks out in my memory.
1:10.6	I think I would have been nine or ten. Oh, so you were not graduating from high school? No.
1:16.4	I was maybe graduating from what is what primary school is that? You're probably like in third or fourth grade.
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1:43.6	You could do more. Yeah, one minute. Okay, so let's go in and get down to it. So Valleyjet 592.
1:51.2	This plane was a DC nine. So it was pretty old. This was a 27 year old plane in this incident. Delta
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