.. I always liked the Delta Connection commuter flights from Melbourne or Orlando to Atlanta.....and vice versa.
For some reason, they felt safer....and I knew it would take under an hour to reach my designation.
So today's news is extra sad....the poor souls probably thought...'one more short leg of this trip, and I'm home'....
Very sad.
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.