Lack of Sleep Eyed in Fatal Air Crash

Many questions still remain about the late August crash of a passenger jet on takeoff from Lexington, KY, but some of the early answers aren’t encouraging. Forty-nine of the 50 people on board Comair Flight 5191 died when the pilot mistakenly attempted to take off in darkness from an unlighted runway that was too short. The CRJ-100 jet crashed into a fence and trees past the end of the runway. The pilots should have used a much longer, lighted second runway. But that wasn’t the only problem. Early investigation revealed that there should have been […]