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"Jeffrey E. Salzberg" wrote:
> 
> In article
> <FD128B4C1E00F8E0.8A268D023BD1F4C8.25E4D5494FD1F30F@lp.airnews.net>,
>   aw722@pdq.net wrote:
> 
> > In the case of ValuJet, it was ridiculous risk taking on the part of
> > management, and an attitude that risking human life was better than
> > risking the bottom line.  The people who ran Valujet were smart, as
> > financiers.  But they were gamblers, and they were gambling with
> human
> > lives.  Can you say "evil"?
> 
> . . .Except that Valujet didn't know that Saber had put the canisters
> on the aircraft.

If you'll remember, Sabertech got what it deserved.  Soon after they
negligently put those canisters on that plane and murdered over a
hundred people, the company crashed and burned.  The sad part is that
negligently causing the death of PEOPLE (it needs to be capitalized
because corporate execs so often forget about them) doesn't usually
result in a corporate death penalty.  Usually the corporation guilty of
the deaths undergoes a few changes and comes back.

Valujet was not entirely without blame.  The record for maintenance on
Valujet planes was poor; they were under FAA investigation at the time
of the crash.  Valujet was in the habit of reserving its capital for
airplanes and saving capital by contracting out whatever it could.  The
result was that they had no control over the safety of their planes or
what went into the cargo holds of their planes.  Giving up control like
that, in the name of putting more money towards expansion, is what was
negligent.
> 
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