[safisoft]

Looking at the first good pictures of the crash with runway 26 behind, it appears that the aircraft never even go airborne. It went through the perimeter fence, and almost hit the big tree by the farm house. Then when it hit the ravine, it burst into flames and went about 50' further.

Wrong runway. Did not fly. Fire on impact. "Threat and error management" scenario for all the airlines for the next year.

[RDTF]

and they may need to re-think the engineering of the new runway set up at Lexington... May be some liability there

[StAnDeliver]

"Looking at the first good pictures of the crash with runway 26 behind, it appears that the aircraft never even go airborne. It went through the perimeter fence, and almost hit the big tree by the farm house. Then when it hit the ravine, it burst into flames and went about 50' further."

That photo is from an odd vantage point height-wise. It's not a ravine, it's the backside of a hill that runs along Versailles Road (not visible to the right). Higher in elevation than the airport runway. A scrub area meant as a buffer for the small farm that owns the land.

If you look at all the photos together (I'd link a bunch but they are from a FoRbidden Gannett rag) it appears the pilot may have attempted emergency rotation at the end of the runway (bystanders have reported the engines "popped"), tore through the perimeter fence, clipped at least two trees (about 150 ft. apart) with the wings, never gaining any kind of substantial altitude.

Then stalled, nose dropped, the plane touched down nearly horizontal, finally gutting out a long trench while rotating slightly clockwise on the ground, and unfortunately sliding into a treeline tail-first.