Comair flight carrying 50 crashes - Airliners-India

the_380 · Member

Comair flight carrying 50 crashes

the_380 · Member

Just after a Russian Airline crashed killing all pax.....

http://in.news.yahoo.com/060827/137/6706d.html

Dozens dead after plane crash in Kentucky.

By Reuters
Sunday August 27, 07:56 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Comair jet carrying about 50 people crashed on Sunday shortly after takeoff in Lexington, Kentucky, killing dozens of people, and media reports said one person survived.

"Our preliminary report was 50 fatalities," Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said. "The plane holds 50 but if there was someone in the jump seat, it would hold 51."

Local television stations reported one person survived the crash and was taken to a hospital.

A Comair spokeswoman said the CRJ-100 plane, flight 5191, left Lexington's Blue Grass Airport, bound for Atlanta. The FAA said it went down in woods at about 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT), approximately a mile (1.5 km) from the airport, and burst into flames.

There was no early indication of what caused the crash.

Comair, a regional carrier based in Cincinnati, is a unit of Delta Air Lines Inc.

HAWK21M · Member

Brazilian pilots believe August is a bad month for Aviation & Some believe Disasters occur in Threes.

Sad case.

regds

MEL

the_380 · Member

Cause of deadly Comair crash probed.

By JEFFREY McMURRAY, Associated Press Writer 51 minutes ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Investigators probing the fiery crash of Comair Flight 5191 want to know why it tried to take off from a runway considered far too short for commercial passenger planes. All but one of the 50 people aboard died.

Although Blue Grass Airport's main runway is 7,000 feet, for some reason the plane departed Sunday from the 3,500-foot general aviation runway. The twin-engine CRJ-100 would have needed 5,000 feet to fully get off the ground, aviation experts said.

There also were clues for the pilot: Signs marking the right way. Less lighting. And severely cracked concrete — not the type of surface typically found on runways for commercial routes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_re_us/kentucky_crash

the_380 · Member

The red circle is the crash-site and the blue runway marked is from where the Delta (Comair) Flight took off though officials say that the runway was quite small for the CRJ

The lone survivor happens to be the First Officer

the_380 · Member

NTSB: Tower didn't notice deadly mistake.

By JEFFREY McMURRAY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Investigators say it only took a moment: The lone traffic controller at Blue Grass Airport cleared a flight for takeoff, then turned his back to handle administrative work.

What the controller didn't see, a federal investigator said, was the Atlanta-bound jet heading down the wrong runway.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_re_us/kentucky_crash