Kentucky plane crash kills 49, pilot survives


  • World
  • Monday, 28 Aug 2006

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Reuters) - A Comair jet crashed and burned in a Kentucky horse pasture on Sunday after a failed takeoff, killing all but one of the 50 people aboard, authorities said. 

Flight 5191, a Canadair CRJ-100 bound for Atlanta, apparently used the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport, one that was much shorter and not meant to handle commercial flights, an aviation source said. 

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