BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Have a look at "CNN 20" today.</s>DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: ValuJet Flight 592 crashes in the Everglades.</s>CARL ROCHELLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The plane, a DC-9 ValuJet Flight 592, crashed in a marshy area of Dade County, a remote part of Florida's Everglades. The location is about 15 miles northwest of Miami International Airport. That's where the plane had taken off just eight minutes before it went down. ValuJet Flight 592 left Miami shortly after 2:00, bound for Atlanta. Only moments later, the crew reported problems and turned around to head back to Miami.</s>ROCHELLE: Everyone onboard was killed. The airplane was hit so hard it just splattered pieces of it all over. The cockpit voice recorder, flight data recorder buried in the mud. It took them days to find them and dig them out of this muddy, swampy area down there. The cockpit voice recorder showed that they had done everything right, everything humanly possible to get this aircraft turned around and get it back on the ground. It just, events overtook them, and the airplane was out of control. They had a cockpit filled with smoke, so they couldn't see, and they apparently lost control of the aircraft. But because of the accident, everyone began taking a close look at that airline and a number of others, and they realized that there were a lot of potential problems out there. So they tightened up, beefed-up regulations, beefed-up inspections, and required the airlines to do a number of things.
CNN 20: ValuJet 592 Crash, May 11, 1996