http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14553611/
Pilot In Fatal Jet Crash Was From South Jersey
WCAU-TV
8:44 a.m. EDT August 28, 2006
Federal investigators say a takeoff on the wrong runway caused Sunday's Comair jet crash in Lexington, Ky. Video:Pilot Was South Jersey Native
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff.
Forty-nine people on the plane were killed. Only the co-pilot survived. He is in critical condition.
The pilot, who also died in the crash, was identified as 35-year-old Jeffrey Clay, who grew up in Vineland, in Cumberland County, N.J. Clay grew up in South Jersey and attended Rutgers, but was living in Kentucky with his wife and two daughters.
The Delta Comair commuter was headed from Lexington to Atlanta.
Officials said the jet used a runway that was too short.
Investigators already are examining some key airport evidence to find out how such a mistake could have happened.
"We have ground scars at the end of runway 2-6, as well as some preliminary information from the flight data recorder that shows the aircraft was lined up on a heading of 2-6," said Debbie Hersmann of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The fatal crash is the United States' worst airline disaster in nearly five years.
"The fatal crash is the United States' worst airline disaster in nearly five years."
Huh. I wonder what THAT crash was about? (How soon it fades into HISTORY and is forgotten).