ValuJet halves its network as NTSB probe centres on cargo-fire issue

THE THEORY that the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 accident on 11 May was linked to the unauthorised freighting of oxygen-generator units has been reinforced by the investigator's discovery of pieces of the canisters embedded in a tyre from the forward cargo hold.

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