Oxygen Canisters on Passenger Planes

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The FAA confirmed that it was investigating a particular Continental Airlines flight from LAX to Houston. The flight was carrying chemical oxygen canisters in its cargo, which are similar to canisters blamed in the ValuJet crash in the Florida Everglades in 1996. The FAA, as a result of that crash, took action by banning all oxygen canisters as cargo on commercial flights. Seven capped disarmed canisters were found in an unsealed box labeled "airline parts" aboard the Continental flight. Aviation attorney Paul Hedlund, whose law firm, Baum Hedlund, represented several victims of the ValuJet Flight 592 crash, commented on flights carrying oxygen canisters. "After the terrible, terrible tragedy in ValuJet I can't see anybody getting near oxygen canisters full, discharged, capped, not capped, disarmed, not disarmed...it makes no difference. You don't carry it under any circumstances with passengers."

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