Plane Crash at Bluegrass Airport in Lexington

PHSFAN · 08-27-2006, 10:07 AM

Delta Comair Flight #5191 that was headed to Atlanta has gone down in Lexington upon takofff...50 people may be dead.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 08-27-2006, 11:05 AM

They are saying 1 out of the 50 passengers is still alive... he is in UK in critical condition... they are saying they think it was the co-pilot.... this is such a tragic story, my thoughts and prayers are with all their friends and family

**TATE_64** · 08-27-2006, 11:59 AM

this is a bad deal. They said it happened about a 1/2 mile after take off.......

Dream_Weaver · 08-27-2006, 12:02 PM

Thoughts and prayers go out to the families........such a tragic event

**Batpuff** · 08-27-2006, 12:15 PM

It crashed a mile after take off.

ZMG · 08-27-2006, 12:53 PM

Early reports are the plane was taking off from the wrong runway (a runway that's about 3500 feet long).

Also, there were reports a UK baseball player (and I believe his wife) were on board.

**phs1986** · 08-27-2006, 01:02 PM

http://www.wymtnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=5331233

Here is the link to the story on WYMT news.... sad.....

**15thRegionCrazy** · 08-27-2006, 02:12 PM

They are now saying that it was because of the plane taking off from the wrong runway... the plane needed at least 5800 feet to take off and the runway they left from was only 3500 feet ... the lone survivor is identified as first officer James M. Polehinkeis.

**SE04** · 08-27-2006, 02:57 PM

this is sad. my thoughts and prayers go out to the families.

**TATE_64** · 08-27-2006, 04:05 PM

ZMG Wrote:Early reports are the plane was taking off from the wrong runway (a runway that's about 3500 feet long).

Also, there were reports a UK baseball player (and I believe his wife) were on board.

Yeah,They said the the baseball player and his newly wed wife were going on there honeymoon.....

MSNBC said it crashed a 1/2 mile from take off.....

ZMG · 08-27-2006, 04:46 PM

The name of the player has been released. It was former player Jon Hooker and his wife who had just been married yesterday.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/ba...index.html

**BlackcatAlum** · 08-27-2006, 04:49 PM

This is sad news ! My prayers are with all the families !

**thetribe** · 08-27-2006, 06:27 PM

My heart goes out to them.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 08-27-2006, 07:38 PM

Here is the link to the list of the victims thats names have been released so far
http://wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=5331968

**phs1986** · 08-27-2006, 08:24 PM

Here is the link to another site that has some updated photo's of the crash site. This is truely a heart wrenching time for many families.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/com...2709990001

Gold Charger · 08-28-2006, 12:06 AM

This is so tragic...prayers for all.

**Pirates~R~Us** · 08-28-2006, 12:45 AM

Sending Thoughts and Prayers to the survivor and all of their families and friends. Such a tragic accident! So sad!

**BC75** · 08-28-2006, 07:55 PM

That is sad, I heard about this on the news yesterday. I really hate to hear this.