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Dave Anderson wrote:
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> Adam Weiss wrote:
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> >> You didn't answer the question.
> >>
> > No. He did answer the question. The question was "why was ValuJet a bad
> > company and why did it find it necessary to change its name to "Air Tran"
> > after the incident".
> 
> That's incorrect. the question was:
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>     "Should airlines be required to open and inspect all packages before
>      loading them onto an airplane?"
> 
> Read my post again. It was right there.
> 
The answer to that is simple.

Packages should be put through x-ray systems and sniffed by drug and
bomb sensing dogs.  Only if the sniffs or x-rays alert the airline to a
possible danger should the package be opened.  Most airlines already do
this.  In the case of Air-Tran, the extent to which it was done is
questionable.  These services were contracted out to the lowest bidder. 
Those companies may or may not have checked packages the way other
airlines do, and given that Air-Tran seeked out only the lowest bidder
and not necessarily the one with the best track record it's quite
possible.

Are you insinuating that nobody noticed that the tanks were empty and
dangerous?  Someone did.  People with Saber Tech knew what they were
doing.  But ValueJet didn't, and the point is that for passenger safety
they should have.

You see, Value Jet wasn't guilty for the crash of their plane.  I've
never said that they were.  They were guilty of creating an environment
that created great risk for crashes.  They basically were a company that
pushed all of its revenue towards growth, and allowed everything else to
be contracted out.  It makes financial sense, but in so doing they were
putting human lives at risk.
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Adam Weiss
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