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Thanks. I'm going to be interested to see what comes out of that, someone in the tower might not have been paying attention.

I looked at the taxi chart for the airport and somebody unfamiliar with the place could quite possibly make this mistake if they weren't paying attention. The taxiway that leads from the terminal area northward toward runway 22 first crosses runway 26 at its takeoff end (as taxiway A) and then continues at a slight angle over to runway 22 (as taxiway A7).

The taxi chart is available at http://www.myairplane.com/databases/approach/pdfs/00697AD.PDF

}:-)4

Live in Lexinton, and have flown in/out of there many many times. We are now starting to get some live aerial video, but still cannot see the plane itself. But from where the emergency vehicles are, it is just off runway 26 (short runway, parallel to Versailles road). Of course they could have taken off runway 22 (over Keeneland), and had a problem and turned back toward the airport. This would have also put them about where the crash was. So still too early to know. But with the runway resurfacing last weekend, that would be a strange coindicence if not a factor. Might contribute to using a wrong runway if that turns out to be the cause.

Weather wise, local TV is showing a small thunderstorm close to the airport right around 6am this morning. Said that they took off under VFR conditions.