The pilot goofed? Are you a pilot? Accident investigator?
Or just a goof ball sitting at home making a guess?
Maybe they tried a desperate attempt to turn back to the airport and land. Wouldn't the shorter runway be the closest? I am a 20 year ATP and I KNOW what I am talking about.
Obviously, I was merely posting my wild, speculative guess when I read above that the site is .25 miles from the departure end of RW 8. Didn't think I needed a /speculation tag in such context, or that anyone would mistake my one liner for a final NTSB report. Now I see someone saying 1 mile, so maybe that increases the odds of other possibilities, but using 8 sure is consistent with a crash shortly after the end of the RW and more likely than a radical turn to the right just past the RW. And, yes, I am a pilot.
I am a pilot. He GOOFED.
It has been already confirmed that the pilots took off on the wrong runway. I don't know how you could try to pin the blame on someone else. I highly doubt that LEX tower cleared them on a 3,500 ft. runway that is only to be used during daylight hours and VFR conditions--and that is never used for commercial ops.
"I am a 20 year ATP and I KNOW what I am talking about."
The pilot who crashed the plane is also an ATP...but he was dead wrong. Any idiot can see the plane left the runway and crashed a few hundred yards away. The vector of the crash is FROM the runway, not TO the runway.