A Delta Airlines plane crash?

Question

Is it true a Delta Airlines flight crashed in Kentucky?

Is it Delta or Comair? Im confused?

They keep saying on my local news that it's a Comair flight, then a Delta flight?

Answer 1

COMAIR

Answer 2

I thought Comair was related to Delta. It's a sad story. The co-pilot was the only one pulled from the wreckage alive - he was in an induced coma and I don't know if they had to amputate a leg.

Somehow the large plane was on a runway that was too short. Apparently both the pilot and co-pilot remarked on the lack of lights, but knew there had been some changes lately at the airport and a runway was re-paved. The pilot taxied to the runway, the co-pilot was the one that appeared to be at the controls when they took off.

The plane had large parts intact, but the fire was a hot one and burned quickly. The airport only had one air traffic controller on duty - an FAA problem. There should have been someone in Indianapolis watching the plane as well, but there wasn't. This was a violation. The controller there apparently turned his back on the plane and didn't know there was a problem until he heard the loud boom.

Not only that, but today they said the crew, when they arrived, originally got on the wrong plane and were told by ramp personnel of their mistake. It's not a large airport, but there were 3-4 similar planes with only the tail numbers different. It was pre-dawn, so it was dark.

So many things that could go wrong, and then did. And then we had another plane go down, a small one that killed an entire family - en route from Texas to the older daughter's boarding school.

Answer 3

Yes it was Comair flight 5191, departing from Bluegrass Airport in Lexington KY, scheduled to arive in Atlanta, GA. 50 people on board, 49 confirmed dead, the lone survivor is the co-pilot and is undergoing surgery at UK hospital as I type this. The plane took off from the wrong runway, which is roughly half the size needed for the plane to reach proper ground speed. This is a general aviation runway, that IS NOT lighted, this is particularly strange being that the plane took off when the sun had not yet come up. There are no air traffic or ground traffic controlers at the airport that early in the morining, all control is administered by the Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky Airport that is about an hour drive north.

Answer 4

Yes, it's true. It happened not to far from my home. it was a Comair Jet. One man, maybe the Co pilot has been taken to UK hospital in critical condition. They are still looking for more survivors, but believe eveyone else to be dead. (about 50 people). It was said it was possible that it took off on the wrong runway, the shorter runway instead of the longer one it was supposed to. But, they said it was unlikely that, that was what happened. They already have other planes taking off again!

Answer 5

Comair is a regional service airline---owned by Delta.

Answer 6

Yes, a Comair flight crashed after take-off for Atlanta. Here's the story so far: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/27/plane.crash/index.html

Answer 7

SKY news in the UK which appears to reflect Fox news US reports this as COMAIR.

The story seems to be that the plane crashed within or close to the Airport in Kentucky as it was taking off for Atlanta. A local newspaper reports that there was one survivor out of the 50 souls on board. A morgue has been set up in situ.

AlexG

Answer 8

Com air is a small regional Delta plane...basically a larger version of a Learjet

Answer 9

a com-air commuter .....about 50 people on plane...
one survivor so for...fog and rain in the area...plane took off on wrong runway...It's Delta flight 5191....

Answer 10

Their is a Com air briefing now on CNN .

Answer 11

Conair, a commuter jet.