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Witnesses portrayed the crash as a horrific consequence of a chain of irresponsibility shared by ValuJet, SabreTech (one of the airline's maintenance companies) and ultimately the Federal Aviation Administration. Volatile oxygen-generating canisters were incorrectly marked empty, packed in cardboard boxes that lacked hazardous-warning labels, and stowed in the cargo hold of the DC-9 without required safety caps designed to prevent discharges that could start a fire...
...monitor an increasingly common practice: airlines' using outside contractors to perform routine maintenance and repairs. Although the ValuJet crash is now believed to have been caused by mislabeled oxygen generators rather than an inspection or a mechanical failure, those generators had been prepared for shipping by one such subcontractor, SabreTech Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona, company that handled a number of tasks for the airline...