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This is from the Lexington Herald.

Farm owner: Plane “used wrong runway”

By Jennifer Hewlett
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

The owner of the farm where Flight 5191 crashed said the plane “obviously … used the wrong runway."

Nick Bentley said the plane must have used the airport's shorter runway, which is about 3,400 feet. The main runway is 7,000 feet

He said the plane hit an 8-foot fence between his property and the airport, and clipped several trees.

The smaller runway is for use by small aircraft, not commercial planes.

Bentley said he did not go the crash site, but he can see the fence from other locations on his land.

“He just got disoriented for whatever reason,” Bentley said of the pilot.

He said the crash location is a “straight line” from the start of the smaller runway to where the airplane landed on his farm. He said a friend called him at 6:20 a.m. and told him a plane had crashed on his property.

Bentley and his wife said no structures or horses on the farm were hit. He said the farm had some horses on it but was otherwise undeveloped.

Another article:

Family member complains about Comair, city's response
By Ryan Alessi
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
A family member of one of the victims in the crash of flight 5191 said Comair and city officials poorly handled families who were sent to the Campbell House for a briefing.

Rick Queen of Lexington said as he was leaving shortly before 12 p.m. that he was very upset with the impersonal and brief nature of Comair and the city of Lexington’s response. Queen’s father-in-law, Les Morris, was on the flight.

“They just brought us all into a room like a herd of cattle,” he said.

A Comair official stood up and told them there had been no survivors and gave a 1-800 number to call. That was it, Queen said.

"I’m in shock being a resident of Lexington that they’ve handled it this way.” Queen said. "There are 48 grieving families in here and we know no information.

"They’ve reopened the airport and we understand the accident scene is still on the ground."

Whether or not the farmer made a correct statement about the runway, I always find it incredible that someone on the ground can make a statement that the "pilot was disoriented." How the hell does HE know?

It's long been known that eyewitnesses are highly unreliable, and that the eyewitnesses at the same scene frequently contradict each other.