Air Tragedy in Kentucky

John Hopkins

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Forty-nine people were tragically killed in a plane crash on a Comair plane flying out of Lexington, Kentucky. FAA officials are still investigating the cause and have no clear answers at this time:

"The cause of the crash wasn't immediately clear, but the location of the wreckage raised questions about the runways at Blue Grass Airport. The burning plane was just off the end of the airport's 3,500-foot-long general aviation runway, an unlit strip built at a V shape to the longer main runway. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, it would have been too short for the CRJ-200 jet.

The plane was largely intact when rescuers reached it, and authorities said they were able to get one crew member out alive, but the fire was devastating."

Newsday.com repoprted that this was the first major US air disaster in five years.

One of the passengers had taken the flight in order to get back to family members; he was a resident of Florida.