Candalyn " Candi " Kubeck ( née Chamberlain , May 10 , 1961 – May 11 , 1996 ) was an American commercial airline pilot and the captain of ValuJet Flight 592 . This flight crashed in the Everglades on May 11 , 1996 , after oxygen generators illegally placed in a cargo hold started and maintained a fire that disrupted aircraft functionality and flooded the cabin and cockpit with smoke . The crash made Kubeck the first female captain to die in a commercial airline crash
ValuJet Flight 592
ValuJet Flight 592
Candi Kubeck