On May 11 , 1996 , ValuJet suffered its highest-profile accident when Flight 592 , a DC-9 flying from Miami to Atlanta , crashed into the Florida Everglades , killing all 110 people on board . The crash was caused by an onboard fire triggered by full chemical oxygen generators that were illegally stowed in the cargo hold without their safety caps , by maintenance subcontractor SabreTech . The resulting investigation revealed numerous systemic flaws , and ultimately faulted both SabreTech for storing the generators on the plane along with ValuJet for not supervising them
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