In 1996 , six years after the release of '' Crash : The Mystery of Flight 1501 '' , ValuJet Flight 592 , a DC-9 , as depicted in the film , crashed after dangerous goods illegally loaded into the cargo compartment caused an in-flight fire which brought down the aircraft . The accident was a startlingly similar echo of the events in the film
ValuJet Flight 592
ValuJet Flight 592
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501