The FAA bungled a major inspection of ValuJet in February 1998

The FAA bungled a major inspection of ValuJet in February 1998, the inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Dept. has found. The FAA review of the airline, which changed its name to AirTran following its May 1996 crash in the Everglades, ``did not result in accurate indicators of ValuJet's...

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