Comair flight 5191

I feel for the families. I understand that Comair is a subsidiary of Delta. I am also concerned that I am scheduled to be on the same make of plane with Skywest Airlines, another subsidiary of Delta on the 31st. I connect with Shuttle America in Salt Lake City to board the exact same make of plane to go on to Austin. :shock:

Now we have a hurricane headed toward Florida that could adversely affect the area that we will be in several days before we arrive. It should be passing into Southeastern Georgia by the time we leave home. :evil:

 

49 people dead and it is possibly due to pilot error. Reports are coming in that the pilot chose the wrong runway that was too short for that plane and its loading.

 

Pilot error, definitely. Sad fact is that humans make mistakes.

 

My daughter-in-law lives in Lexington and a good friend is from there.

I read that the long runway was recently repaved and I told my friend that I figured that had to have something to do with it.

He said that the taxiways had been changed and this pilot had evidently taken the old taxiway and thus ended up on the wrong runway.

Things like this are inexcusable, but like serious medical errors and anything else they are usually caused by not one, but several interwoven factors and errors that come together.

 

Reports are now leaning toward pilot AND tower errors. I don't want to sound cold, but I feel better that it was not a issue with the plane. I will be getting on the exact same model in a little over 19 hours.

Cindy, have the RV ready to hitch up. I will be home tomorrow night.

 

I just flew ComAir (same model) from Nashville to Cincinnatti Tuesday night. I did notice that it seemed (to me) to take quite a distance to get airborne for such a small jet.

Not sure what the "tower error" was...I read where it is not the traffic controllers job to monitor where the planes are on the taxiways and runways...maybe it should be.

stu

 

The string of possible errors gets longer. I read that these guys got on the wrong plane and were powering it up before the ground crew had to tell them were on the wrong plane, also I have read that the pilot only got 2 hrs sleep the night before how they know that I don't know.

I did read about the fact that there was only 1 guy in the control tower and he wasn't watching the planes, but I am not surprised I mean if he has to watch the radar as well how does he have time to do both. Seems like you should have 2 guys.

 

If they got on the wrong plane first, I would be interested in seeing the results of the toxicology report from at least the survivor.