Candalyn "Candi" Kubeck (née Chamberlin, May 10, 1961 – May 11, 1996) was an American commercial airline pilot and the captain of ValuJet Flight 592.

This flight crashed into the Everglades in 1996, after oxygen generators illegally placed inside a cargo hold, which started and maintained a fire that disrupted aircraft functionality and flooded the entire cabin and cockpit with smoke.

Kubeck began flying lessons while in high school[2] after which she attended Palomar College in San Marcos, California where she was a member of the flight team.

Kubeck transferred to Metro State College in Denver, Colorado, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Aviation Studies in 1982.

Candi Kubeck began as an instructor pilot at small airfields and working at various commuter and freight airlines based in California and Arizona.

In 1989, she was hired by Eastern Airlines as a strikebreaker, crossing the picket line during a strike by the company's unionized pilots.

The disaster was caused when expired oxygen generators illegally stored in the cargo hold started a fire.

Kubeck struggled with the aircraft, but failed; the fire had melted all of the wiring and hydraulic cables in the back of the plane, making it uncontrollable.

The $1,000 scholarship is presented at the Annual International Women in Aviation Conference (WAI) to the nationally ranked Top Female Collegiate Pilot.