In the doomed flight, fire erupted in the cargo bay six minutes after leaving Miami.

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Rubinstein was hunting near the crash sites of two airplanes that went down in the same area: Eastern Flight 401, a New York flight that crashed as it prepared to land in Miami in 1972, and ValuJet Flight 592, a 1996 flight to Atlanta that caught fire shortly after takeoff and plummeted into the remote swamps west of Miami.

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The plane's flight crew was aware there was fire in the cabin but could do nothing to stop the dive.

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