On Sep 22, 4:28*pm, BeechSundowner wrote:
On Sep 22, 3:13*am, D Ramapriya wrote:

One thing I learned big time especially at airports with multiple
runways is that I always check the DG against the runway numbers
before take off. *Comair accident in Lexington taught me that lesson
and I can fully understand how that accident happened as I took off
from the very same runway and even after the accident the signage was
pretty crappy and I had asked for progressives!


Regarding that LEX crash, I know that everyone busied himself
pillorying the pilots but I think I'll place at least 20% culpability
(whatever that means ) on the sod within Comair who scheduled those
pilots on that trip. From what I've read, they'd returned from flights
the previous night at 11.30 pm and midnight respectively. It's
anybody's guess how well-rested and/or alert they'd have been ere a
6.45 am takeoff the following morning. I don't have the credentials to
either condemn or condone pilot actions but my guess is that since
neither pilot would've had more than 4 hours' sleep the previous
night, they may have been a touch short on the eagle alertness called
for in a high-workload job. You might laugh at the suggestion of pilot
fatigue on a flight that hasn't even commenced but there was fatigue
of *some* sort that contributed to that incident.

Does anyone here have a copy of the accident report of that crash? I
Googled but came up empty...

Ramapriya