4-YEAR-OLD CARRIED ONTO JET BRINGS CRASH DEATH TOLL TO 110.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A child who was carried onto ValuJet Flight 592 was added to the airline's passenger list Wednesday, bringing the crash toll to 110. The carrier said Mahamad Darbor and Saeeda Alihassan Darbor, of Atlanta, brought their 4-year-old child Daniel Darbor onto the airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. , which plunged into the Everglades shortly after take off Saturday from Miami International Airport Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA, ICAO: KMIA, FAA LID: MIA) is a public airport located eight miles (13 km) northwest of the central business district of Miami, in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. . ValuJet said Daniel was a girl whose name was pronounced ``Danielle.'' But WXIA-TV in Atlanta reported that Daryoush Behroozi, a friend of the Darbors, said the child was a boy. Calls to ValuJet late Wednesday to clear up the discrepancy DISCREPANCY. A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance. (q.v.) 2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. were not returned. Daniel was not identified earlier because the child was not listed on the flight manifest Flight manifest is a list of passengers and crew of an aircraft compiled before departure based on flight check-in information. , said Gregg Kenyon, spokesman for ValuJet in Atlanta. Only ticketed passengers are listed, and children under the age of 2 don't require an airplane ticket if they are carried by an adult. At age 4, Daniel should have been a ticketed passenger, and Kenyon said the airline is investigating why the child was not. Airline officials plan to speak with those working the gate when the Darbors boarded. The child's grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl , who live somewhere in the Middle East, told airline officials Daniel was 4. ValuJet officials learned there might have been another passenger from friends of the Darbors, who said they thought the couple would have been traveling with a child. The airline couldn't immediatly confirm that because the grandparents ive overseas. |
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