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Comair flight crashed in Kentucky
Posted: August 27, 2006 12:31 pm
by flyboy55
Plane with 50 aboard crashes in Kentucky
Crew member is the sole survivor on flight en route to Atlanta
Updated: 12:08 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2006
A plane flying from Lexington, Ky.'s Blue Grass Airport to Atlanta, Ga., crashed shortly after takeoff early Sunday morning. A crew member was the lone survivor.
Comair Flight 5191, a CRJ-100 regional jet with 47 passengers and three crew members, crashed at 6:07 a.m. shortly after taking off for Atlanta, said Kathleen Bergen, a FAA spokeswoman.
There are a "significant number of fatalities," she said. There was no immediate word on what caused the crash. It crashed a mile west of the airport in a wooded area, according to Bergen.
The University of Kentucky hospital is treating one survivor, who is in critical condition, spokesman Jay Blanton said. No other survivors have been brought to the hospital, he said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14540419/
Thoughts and prayers for these travellers/ crewmembers and their families.
Posted: August 27, 2006 12:42 pm
by SMLCHNG
Posted: August 27, 2006 12:56 pm
by jonesbeach10
Sail on...
PHIN POWER and prayers to the family members of the victims and the one survivor...
Posted: August 27, 2006 1:58 pm
by Quiet and Shy
Well, I confess I just breathed a sigh of relief in reading the first officer's (lone survivor's) name...it wasn't my cousin. But what a tragic day for so many....
Posted: August 27, 2006 2:06 pm
by Wino you know
Absolutely awful.
Prayers & Godspeed to the families of the victims.
Posted: August 27, 2006 2:39 pm
by AdamBomb8
One of the news stations saying the pilot took off on the wrong runway.
Posted: August 27, 2006 2:42 pm
by MalibuRumGirl
What a tragedy. My prayers are with the families and friends of all those that were aboard. I also am praying for the crew member who survived
Posted: August 27, 2006 3:18 pm
by jonesbeach10
AdamBomb8 wrote:One of the news stations saying the pilot took off on the wrong runway.
That's what I heard too. Apparently the one that the plane was supposed to take off on was much longer.
Posted: August 27, 2006 3:41 pm
by Lightning Bolt
I've flown on a similar Canadair Regional Jet a couple times between DIA and SAN, and fully loaded, they were still pretty quick to lift off.
I hope it wasn't a case of pilot error simply forgetting to set proper takeoff trim.
It has happened before (Northwest 255 in Detroit back in 1987), and being an early morning departure, it could have been too casually checked off.
Posted: August 27, 2006 3:46 pm
by Dally
how very sad.....
:(
May God be with the familes and friends of the victims.
Posted: August 27, 2006 4:05 pm
by jackiesic
This is the airport I flew in/out of all the time I was a travel agent and now since moving to NJ, the one I use when I fly to see my parents
May God be with the grieving families.
Posted: August 27, 2006 4:17 pm
by weirdo0521
Just heard from an internet friend, he was at a wedding last night, and the Bride & Groom were on that flight. Groom was a former Kentucky baseball player. The first of the many tragic stories that will come out. Thoughts and prayers for the families.
Posted: August 27, 2006 4:26 pm
by jackiesic
weirdo0521 wrote:Just heard from an internet friend, he was at a wedding last night, and the Bride & Groom were on that flight. Groom was a former Kentucky basketball player. The first of the many tragic stories that will come out. Thoughts and prayers for the families.
I just found this at kentucky.com
Jon and Scarlett Parsley Hooker, Lexington, wed Saturday. Jon Hooker is a former standout University of Kentucky baseball player.
Posted: August 27, 2006 4:30 pm
by jackiesic
Here's a list of names as released by family members.
If it is the same Priscille Johnson, she used to be a client at the travel agency I worked for:
Passengers
• Carol Bizzack, Lexington, wife of former Lexington police officer John Bizzack
• Diane and Homer Combs, Lexington
• Fenton Dawson, Lexington, worked for ACS in governmental solutions department, on his way to a Washington, D.C., seminar
• Jon and Scarlett Parsley Hooker, Lexington, wed Saturday. Jon Hooker is a former standout University of Kentucky baseball player.
• Priscilla Johnson, worked for the government
• Pat Smith, Lexington, worked for Lexington’s Habitat for Humanity, was 2004 Humanities National Volunteer of the Year
• Marcie Thomason, 25, Washington, D.C., native Lexingtonian
• Betty Young, wife of Doug Young, the uncle of W.T. Young Jr., Lexington
Posted: August 27, 2006 6:30 pm
by Crazy Navy Flyer
AdamBomb8 wrote:One of the news stations saying the pilot took off on the wrong runway.
I heard that also this morning early.
With all the checks and cross checks I find that extremely hard to believe, unless the tower cleared them to the wrong runway, even then I find it strange. I'm familiar with the paperwork they have, the computer info and the checklists, gotta really screw up bad to use the wrong runway, they flew in the day before and were familiar with the long and short runways at the field, they were on a layover overnight according to the Comair representative. Early comments by the media usually are wrong.
At 6 AM the short General Aviation runway should not have runway lights illuminated, I just can't see them using that runway, would have been a totally different picture from the cockpit.
Posted: August 27, 2006 6:52 pm
by jackiesic
Crazy Navy Flyer wrote:AdamBomb8 wrote:One of the news stations saying the pilot took off on the wrong runway.
I heard that also this morning early.
With all the checks and cross checks I find that extremely hard to believe, unless the tower cleared them to the wrong runway, even then I find it strange. I'm familiar with the paperwork they have, the computer info and the checklists, gotta really screw up bad to use the wrong runway, they flew in the day before and were familiar with the long and short runways at the field, they were on a layover overnight according to the Comair representative. Early comments by the media usually are wrong.
At 6 AM the short General Aviation runway should not have runway lights illuminated, I just can't see them using that runway, would have been a totally different picture from the cockpit.
You're right but here's a map of the crash site and it sure looks like the Gen Avi runway was used:
http://www.kentucky.com/multimedia/kent ... -crash.gif
Posted: August 27, 2006 7:02 pm
by Crazy Navy Flyer
Posted: August 27, 2006 7:48 pm
by BottleofRum
I am taking a Comair flight this Saturday morning, same exact kind of plane
From Atlanta - Champaign, IL .
It looks like it might have been pilot error rather than the plane malfunction which for some reason make me fell a little better about taking that flight.
Posted: August 27, 2006 7:56 pm
by buffettbride
BottleofRum wrote:I am taking a Comair flight this Saturday morning, same exact kind of plane
From Atlanta - Champaign, IL .
It looks like it might have been pilot error rather than the plane malfunction which for some reason make me fell a little better about taking that flight.
No kidding!
One of my BW friends flew in from that airport yesterday to Denver in that same kind of plane. They fly out TO that airport next week on the same kind of plane, too.
Posted: August 27, 2006 7:57 pm
by TommyBahama
PRAYERS to the families!!
i also heard about the wrong runway!!!...and the couple that were married yesterday!!!...very tragic!!!
