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Article: Doubts Arise During Miami Hearing Against Aviation Maintenance Contractor.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- May 23, 2001
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By Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 23--A federal appeals judge expressed serious doubts Tuesday about upholding the majority of the criminal convictions against SabreTech, the aviation maintenance contractor linked to the ValuJet crash.
"I think there are problems in this very important case," said U.S. Circuit Judge James L. Edmondson during an appeals hearing in Miami.
SabreTech, which improperly prepared, labeled and packaged the oxygen-generating canisters believed to have caused the May 1996 crash, was found guilty in December 1999 of eight criminal counts of recklessly causing hazardous ...