5191
Sunday, 27 August, 2006
The best single page about the events in Lexington, Kentucky this morning.
Tidbits:
- Lieutenant Gov. Pence is not the state’s point man in this. No explanation has been given. Pence is hale and hearty and was not on the flight.
- Blue Grass Airport is the airport used by state officials when departing Frankfort which is part of the Lexington metropolitan area.
- This is the airport featured in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger and, despite significant growth in the area, survives today in remarkably similar layout.
- This type of error, the wrong runway being used during a series of takeoffs in IFR conditions (darkness, light rain), is all but inconceivable.
- However, IFR may have been a contributing factor as the runway was both unlit and may be unmarked due to very recent renovation.
- Lots of little towns in Kentucky may be mentioned in the coverage of this event. Lexington, not unlike Louisville until recently, is actually a large number of tiny municipalities surrounding “Lexington proper”. Assume these towns are, for all points and purposes, “Lexington”.
- Curiously, “Delta Connection” or Comair 5191 is the designation for a regularly scheduled non-stop between Jacksonville, FL and Boston. I have yet to discover how this connector to Hartsfield-Jackson received this designation.
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