question about the Comair flight?

Question

This is such a sad event. My prayers are with the families...

The main question that i am seeing is what made them take the wrong runway.

my question is did the plane explode and make it impossible to survive. because from what the today show was talking about this morning is that it turned into an incinerator and burned everyone.
if it HASN'T exploded, why couldn't anyone get to the doors to get out?

Answer 1

this is so sad. I think lots of things went wrong on that flight, didn't they take off from the wrong runway also?

Answer 2

The runways had been under repair and one report stated that the main runway was unlit. Another report stated that it was lit.

My question is what the hell was the Tower doing that they didn't see the plane on the wrong runway? They have radio contact. Haven't heard that question.

With a full tank of fuel it became an incinerator. Like 9/11. Planes never land with much fuel. It's too dangerous unless it can't be avoided. If time, they dump fuel at enough altitude.

Answer 3

The pilot turned from the taxi way onto the wrong runway in the darkness. When a plane begins a journey it is full of jet fuel. That means is heavy and requires the maximum amount of roll out for take off. When it did not have enough room to get airborne it clipped the trees at the end of the runway and that disintegrated the plane and ruptured the fuel tanks. With lots of electrical and mechanical parts causing sparks and fire, the entire mass would catch fire in an instant. There is no way to get to the passengers in time to save them when these two events occur together.

Answer 4

Very tragic. Still a lot of unanswered questions but it looks like the airplane took the wrong runway - one that was way too short for it to perform a take off so it crashed into trees at the end and exploded too. The news said that there was fog and it was still dark when the plane took off in the early hours of the AM. I think both the control tower and the pilots were at fault.

Answer 5

The surviving copilot is described as having life threatening trauma like a broken pelvis. If it was not for the heroic policemen who pulled him out of there, burning themselves in the process, he would have dies.

But the key word is that we was so injured by the force of the impact he could not walk, and probably was unconscious. The passengers were probably equally incapacitated, that is why no one was able to evacuate.