RIVALS TO TESTIFY IN VALUJET HEARING.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Top executives of ValuJet Airlines This article or section has multiple issues: * It needs additional references or sources for verification. Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page. and Sabretech, the two companies that blame each other for the crash of a ValuJet DC-9 in the Everglades in May, will testify To provide evidence as a witness, subject to an oath or affirmation, in order to establish a particular fact or set of facts. Court rules require witnesses to testify about the facts they know that are relevant to the determination of the outcome of the case. this week at hearings by the National Transportation Safety Board that are expected to be far more confrontational than most plane crash inquiries. The hearings, which are to begin in Miami today and are expected to run all week, will closely examine two segments of the aviation industry - start-up airlines like ValuJet and outside maintenance contractors like Sabretech - people involved say. They are also intended to shed light on problems in the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control . That agency has acknowledged that at the time of the crash it was not dealing well with changes in the aviation industry, including airlines ``outsourcing'' maintenance to other companies, which by some estimates accounts for about a third of such work. Lewis H. Jordan, the president of ValuJet Inc., ValuJet Airlines' holding company, and, Steven Townes, the president of Sabretech, a subsidiary of Sabreliner Corp., will testify separately, giving their views of the events surrounding the crash on May 11. The plane, which had just taken off 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. to Atlanta, caught fire and plunged into swampland, killing all 110 people on board. Oxygen generators that were stored in a cargo hold are suspected of causing the fire. The hearing will also include a video of tests performed by the safety board that show oxygen generators, which are used on some jetliners to supply emergency oxygen, bursting into flames. A pilot whose face was badly burned by a cockpit fire will testify about fire and smoke protection, showing how hard it is to put on oxygen masks oxygen mask n. A masklike device that is placed over the mouth and nose and through which oxygen is supplied from an attached storage tank. and smoke goggles goggles, n the protective eyewear worn by dental personnel and patients during dental procedures. goggles see periocular leukotrichia. in an emergency. In the ValuJet case, investigators have not determined whether, as the plane filled with smoke, the pilot and co-pilot were able to use masks or goggles. More reports and testimony have been assembled for this hearing than for any other by the board. |
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