Posted on 08/27/2006 10:45:21 AM PDT by stm
LEXINGTON, Ky. A commuter jet carrying 50 people crashed in a field and caught fire shortly after taking off Sunday morning. Authorities said a crew member was the only survivor.
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Whoops 220 vs 260...
FWIW, I think there are several who are culpable. I frankly think too many folks were not fully awake to catch the obvious error - both in the cockpit and in the tower.
There are so many checks and double-checks that you wonder how it is even possible.
I knew I had a good reason for avoiding those 6 a.m. flights they always try to push your toward on these discount sites. Truth is, I just don't want to get up that early. Heck, with all the passenger screening now, you've got to wake up the night before just to catch a 6 a.m. flight.
The pilot and copilot probably had a period of disbelief and then panic when they saw how quickly that row of red lights was coming up and they had not made rotation speed. It would be a tough call to either abort and run off the end of the runway or pull up,and stay in ground effect to avoid stalling till you gain some speed. Looks like they didn't get over to the other side of the power curve and they stalled.
It wasn't immediately clear how the plane ended up on the shorter runway in the predawn darkness. There was a light rain Sunday, and the strip veers off at a V from the main runway, which had just been repaved last week.They ought to be looking into the possibility that the "V from the main runway" isn't marked clearly enough."We will be looking into performance data, we will be looking at the weight of the aircraft, we will be looking at speeds, we will pull all that information off," Hersman said.
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