Comair flight 5191
| Comair flight 5191 | |
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 Aerial view of Blue Grass Airport with used (red) and planned runway (blue) |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Deal from the runway |
| place | Lexington, Kentucky |
| date | August 27, 2006 |
| Fatalities | 49 |
| Survivors | 1 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Bombardier CRJ100ER |
| operator | Comair |
| Mark | N431CA |
| Departure airport | Lexington |
| Destination airport | Atlanta |
| Passengers | 47 |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Comair flight 5191 (flight number IATA : OH5191 , ICAO : COM5191 , radio call sign: COMAIR 5191 ) was a scheduled flight of Comair , a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines , which was supposed to run from Lexington to Atlanta on August 27, 2006 and take off from Blue Grass Airport crashed. With the exception of the first officer, all inmates died.
Aircraft and passengers
The crashed Bombardier CRJ100ER with the aircraft registration number N431CA and the production number 7472 was handed over to Comair on January 30, 2001 and has since been continuously used by Comair under the Delta Connection brand for Delta Air Lines.
On the day of the accident, 47 passengers, two pilots and a flight attendant were on board Flight 5191 . The only survivor was copilot James Polehinke, who was saved with serious injuries. He was also the "flying" pilot (PF) of Flight 5191.
Course of the accident
Although the aircraft was assigned to runway 22, which is 2,135 meters long, the pilots inadvertently turned onto runway 26, which is only 1,067 meters long and unlit, and began the take-off run. The distance available for the take-off run on the significantly shorter runway was not sufficient for the almost fully occupied jet, which finally broke the lights at the end of the runway, collided with an embankment, the airport fence and trees and broke into two main parts. The wreck caught fire and burned out about 600 m beyond the end of the runway.
causes
Investigations of the flight recorder and radio traffic as well as the voice recorder on board showed that the accident was mainly caused by incorrect behavior by the pilots before the take-off run. The investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also found that violations of internal regulations in the airport tower contributed to the accident. Instead of the required two, there was only one air traffic controller on duty who, after the take-off clearance for Comair 5191 had been given, did not continue to observe the aircraft and thus did not notice that the take-off run was starting on the wrong runway. Due to construction work in the area of the taxiways to runway 22, there was also no map material showing the structural conditions in the area of the taxiways and runway accesses at the time of the accident, which, however, was not considered to be the cause.
Web links
- Comair website of the airline (English)
- Comair Flight 5191 cockpit recording of Flight 5191
Individual evidence
- ↑ - Entry on the CRJ100ER with the serial number 7472 (English) accessed on June 4, 2011
- ↑ courier-journal.com - 'A horrendous, horrendous tragedy all around' (accessed June 4, 2011)
- ↑ a b c Investigation report of the NTSB (PDF; 3.6 MB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 2 ′ 16 " N , 84 ° 36 ′ 56.6" W.