Posted on 08/27/2006 4:38:10 AM PDT by BigBlueJon
Edited on 08/27/2006 5:02:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Possible plane crash in Lexington, KY. My brother works security for Lexington UK Hospital and was just called in. No news locally or on major news outlets yet. I didn't want to post anything for fear of being wrong, but he's still waiting for an official call while on stand-by.
Update from WTVQ 36 Lexington:
A plane has crashed near the Blue Grass Airport this morning. No word on details at this time. We are told it was a commercial aircraft. Versailles Road is blocked as emergency vehicles circle around the site. We have live coverage beginning at 7:20am. Stay with Action News 36 for more details.
FWIW, 26 the GA runway, is about 3-4 times as wide as 22. Not an excuse of course, but a bit of an explanation. Changes made within the last week or two.
Possibly the crew or the Captain had not flown from there since the changes. But that would seem to make it more likely that he'd taxi onto the now closed taxiway. However all it took was for him to turn a little too tight onto 26 instead of onto the other taxiway. Get confused, not notice you should have made one more turn, and think you are on the proper runway, and you and 48 other people are dead, and your first officer is clinging to life.
"perhaps an abort was started and then realized that it was impossible to follow through"
That decision is almost always deadly!!!!
I realize that, but this airport has two intersecting runways. The short one is half the length of the long one. It sounds like the tower should have warned the pilot he was on the wrong runway.
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More likely, this was the first leg of their journey. Anyone returning somewhere from Lexington would most likely have left yesterday, if not Friday evening. If the flight had been from ATL, rather than to it, you'd probably be correct.
I'm planning on a two day layover at DFW next month, at the end of a trip to Orlando. At that point I will be on the last leg as I board the commuter aircraft (an ERJ-140), but then again that's the large "hub" for the commuter, not one of it's feeder airports.
Yeah, but it shouldn't pop up like that. Indicates a bug in the website code.
Info in Post 14 says 8/26 is 75 feet wide; 4/22 at 150 feet in width.
No, at least not before they have time to call in their "experts". Even then maybe not.
Journalists are generalists, they no nothing about anything in particular. Anytime you have knowledge of the background area of a story, you'll find all sorts of inaccuracies and down right errors.
I believe it does.
Commuter jets from Melbourne or Orlando are always the first leg of the trip...
..Atlanta returns...are coming home.
Truly priceless.
The wrong runway? Good gravy.
Don't know anything about that particular aircraft but changing your mind after you've made a decision and started to abort and resuming takeoff especially on such a short runway the guy didn't have a chance if thats what happened.
The flight recorder will have the answers and the first officer, if he survives.
That was from the China crash in 2004, which was the last CRJ crash before today.
I take that back, I just checked my friend's CRJ manual, and it does not have auto-brakes--thus no RTO auto-brake.
IFR CheckList:
Check Compass against assigned runway heading!
This checks both the compass and teh selected runway!
Failur to do this check can lead to bad compass or incorrect runway.
BAD OPERATING PRACTICE. LAZY!
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