SABRETECH SENTENCED TO PAY $11 MILLION
SabreTech Inc. was sentenced by a federal judge to pay $11 million in fines for its part in the ValuJet crash that killed 110 people in May 1996, newswire services reported Monday.
ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami. Federal investigators determined the cause of the crash was improperly packaged and labeled oxygen generating canisters in the DC-9’s forward cargo hold. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed SabreTech, ValuJet’s maintenance contractor and shipper of the oxygen generators, ValuJet and the Federal Aviation Administration for the accident.
A jury found SabreTech guilty of violating hazardous material shipping rules in December.