Comair plane took off from wrong runway

oberliner

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Sun Aug-27-06 06:54 PM
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Comair plane took off from wrong runway

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A commuter jet mistakenly trying to take off on a runway that was too short crashed into a field Sunday and burst into flames, killing 49 people and leaving the lone survivor — a co-pilot — in critical condition, federal investigators said,

Preliminary flight data from Comair Flight 5191's black box recorders and the damage at the scene indicate the plane, a CRJ-100 regional jet, took off from the shortest runway at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_re_us/kentucky_crash;_ylt=AqJ0GCYVrqXbz1UxwuTlPTis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

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malaise

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Sun Aug-27-06 07:01 PM
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1. Sources at MSNBC confirmed this

since early morning. My question is how the hell did this happen.
Expect dozens of law suits for the innocent dead.

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Stargazer99

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Sun Aug-27-06 07:37 PM
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2. How much you want to bet the pilot was given wrong instuctions

and watch the ass covering!

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annabanana

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Sun Aug-27-06 08:29 PM
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5. Air Traffic Control has NEVER recovered from

the Reagan putsch.

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jerry611

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Sun Aug-27-06 09:41 PM
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7. Politics has nothing to do with this crash

Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 09:41 PM by jerry611

This was obvious human error.

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ziggy_luv

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Sun Aug-27-06 07:42 PM
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3. I wonder....

who was on the plane, and what did he or she know.....???

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wakeme2008

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Sun Aug-27-06 08:26 PM
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4. For the most part these Comair pilots are low hours and very under paid

Not that is an excuse for starting to take off on the wrong runway BUT continuing to try to get into the air and not stopping may be a judgement call.....

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rurallib

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Sun Aug-27-06 09:33 PM
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6. I used to fly a lot and much of that on Comair

with the outsourcing of mechanical work, treating the controllers like shit and squeezing the personell I thank my lucky stars I don't fly anymore.
All this crap will reach a critical mass at some point and airplanes will start falling from the skies. But the W admin has no facilities to investigate or will they even care.

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SharonAnn

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Sun Aug-27-06 10:03 PM
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8. It seems that the aircraft DID "fall from the skies"

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