- It was a Saturday afternoon, another day in the short but successful life of ValuJet, a three-year-old discount airline; an afternoon in which more than 100 people in Miami -- some on their way somewhere for Mother's Day visits -- boarded ValuJet Flight 592 bound for Atlanta. But that afternoon, shortly after that flight began, it ended in tragedy. The DC-9 plunged to the earth and was ...www.cnn.com/US/valujet.592