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49 dead in Kentucky airplane accident -

49 dead in Kentucky airplane accident

Comair commuter jet crashes in Lexington, KY after taking off from the wrong runway; pilot error may be to blame in accident that killed all but co-pilot - 8/28/06

49 people are dead after a Comair commuter jet bound for Atlanta, GA, crashed August 27, 2006 at Lexington, Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport. The airplane accident was the deadliest to occur in the United States in five years.

Comair Flight 5191 attempted takeoff from Runway 26, a strip normally used by smaller prop planes that was not intended to be used by jets. The plane, which crashed through a security fence into a nearby grassy field, burst into flames. Rescue workers were only able to rescue one person, the aircraft’s co-pilot, before flames from the fire grew so intense that it became impossible to save anyone else.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began inspecting the site of the crash of Flight 5191 just hours after the crash. Pilots familiar with the 50-seat Bombardier CRJ-100 flown by Comair state such an aircraft would need between 4,000 to 5,250 feet of runway strip to get airborne safely. The shorter runway used by pilot Jeffrey Clay is crossed by the taxiway used to reach a larger runway, Runway 22, intended for use by jets. Runway 22 is 7,003 feet in length. Runway 26 is only 3,500 feet long.

There was a light rain falling at the time of the crash. Blue Grass Airport had finished renovating portions of Runway 26 and all of Runway 22 just last week. The Federal Aviation Administration recently sent an alert to pilots that Blue Grass Airport decided to stop maintaining the lights on Runway 26 after designating it for daytime use only. It is unclear whether either of these factors contributed to the crash of Flight 5191.

Information retrieved from the plane’s black-box recorder confirmed that the plane was cleared to take off from the longer runway, Runway 22, by the air-traffic controller on duty. The pilot in command of a plane, once cleared for takeoff, is responsible for safe operation. Comair president Don Bornhorst stated the pilots were “very familiar with the aircraft,” which had logged 12,000 landing and takeoff cycles since being purchased by the airline in 2001. Jeffrey Clay joined Comair in November of 1999 and was promoted to captain in 2004, and co-pilot James M. Polehinke had been with Comair since March 2002. However, safety experts said the flight crew may have failed to complete safety measures, including a routine check of the onboard compass and directional gyroscope which would have alerted the crew that they were set to take off on the wrong heading.

“Navigating on the airport surface is a standard part of every takeoff,” said William Cotton, a retired United Airlines captain. “The runway numbers are painted on the pavement and you have an airport surface diagram in your lap. It’s just not common to think you are on one runway when you are actually on another.”

Los Angeles aviation safety consultant Barry Schiff, an airline captain for TWA for 34 years, said it was unheard of for both the pilot and co-pilot on a plane to both believe they were taking off from the correct runway if they were taxing down the wrong one. “That’s not the kind of mistake you’d expect a professional airline crew to make,” Schiff said.

Among the victims of the accident were Scarlett Parsley Hooker and Jon Hooker, married the afternoon before the airplane accident, and Pat Smith, a member of the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity. The lone survivor of the crash, co-pilot James M. Polehinke, is in critical condition and said to be fighting for his life.

Sources: Del Quentin Wilbur and Sara Kehaulani Goo, “Commuter Jet Crash in Kentucky Kills 49,” Washington Post, August 28, 2006; Will Graves, “Newlyweds among crash victims,” Associated Press, August 28, 2006; Charles Sheehan and Jon Hilkevitch, “Experts Cite Pilot Error in Jet Crash,” Chicago Tribune, August 28, 2006; Richard Fausset and Alan C. Miller, “Jet Crash Probe Centers on Use of Shorter Runway,” Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2006.



Wis. Man Dies in Wood Chipper -

 

 

Wis. Man Dies in Wood Chipper

(AP) - PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis.-

 

 

The owner of a tree service company was killed after being pulled through a wood chipper, police said Wednesday.Jeremiah P. Sanders, 30, used his foot to free a jammed log and was pulled into the machine Tuesday, Pleasant Prairie police spokesman Pete Jung said in a statement. Co-workers unsuccessfully tried to stop the chipper, Jung said.

 

Sanders, the owner of J's Quality Tree Service, died at the scene.The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was investigating. Foul play was not suspected.2006-08-17T04:14:22Z

 



Son of Katrina victim sues government over failure to rescue her from shelterBy RUKMINI CALLIMACHI A -

 

 

The son of a 91-year-old woman who died in her wheelchair awaiting rescue from a shelter in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sued the state and the city Thursday.Herbert Freeman Jr. filed a lawsuit in state Civil District Court in New Orleans accusing numerous state agencies and the city of New Orleans of "gross negligence and willful misconduct" in the death of his mother, Ethel Freeman. He plans to file a second lawsuit in federal court against the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The elderly woman died sitting in her wheelchair outside the city's convention center, which was overwhelmed with desperate evacuees. Her body, pushed to one side and covered with a poncho, became a widely noted icon of the botched hurricane response.Freeman's lawyer, John Paul Massicot, said the mother and son were instructed to go the fetid convention center - even though there was no aid available and no way out. "Let's not forget, she survived the storm. The storm didn't get her. She didn't survive the rescue," Massicot said.The woman and her son got caught as the water began to rise in their flooded neighborhood. The day after the storm made landfall breaking New Orleans' weak levees, the son was able to secure a boat and place his mother inside, still sitting in her wheelchair. New Orleans Police instructed them to seek shelter at the convention center, where they were told buses were coming, the lawsuit states.Once they reached the shelter, they found teeming crowds and no food, water or buses. As his mother began to slip away in the suffocating heat, Freeman pleaded for medical help, but there was none. She died 24 hours after reaching the convention center, slumped in her wheelchair.For four days, Freeman watched over her body before he was ordered to leave her at gunpoint, after buses finally arrived, said Massicot. He recalls kneeling by the wheelchair and praying, then leaving a note with his address and phone number inside one of her pocket.It would take him seven weeks to track down her body which was taken to a morgue in St. Gabriel, La. More than two months would pass before he could lay her to rest.The lawsuit charges that even though a mandatory evacuation was called, it was announced only 20 hours before the storm made landfall, not enough time to evacuate a chronically ill woman.State officials said they were not prepared to comment on the lawsuit. City officials did not return calls or an e-mail seeking comment.2006-08-17T16:59:34Z

 



4 dead tied to a Maine bed and breakfast - NEWRY, Maine - Julie Bullard and her daughter, Selby, tried to put tragedy behind them when they moved from California to Maine to run a bed and breakfast here. It was to be a fresh start after Selby Bullard's husband died in a car accident. Now, both are dead, and a man who lived as a guest in their inn was charged Tuesday with killing them and two others in Maine's biggest homicide case in more than a decade.The carnage at the 130-year-old converted farmhouse on a dead-end road unfolded over the Labor Day weekend and prompted State Police Chief Col. Craig Poulin to call it "a crime of horrific proportions."Police said Christian Nielsen, 31, who had worked as a cook in an inn's kitchen in neighboring Bethel, offered no resistance when he was arrested on four murder charges.Poulin said the investigation was too new to comment on a motive, but added, "We believe no one else was involved and there are no additional victims."Nielsen, who had been living at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast for a couple of months, told police that his first victim on Friday was James Whitehurst, 50, of Batesville, Ark., whose remains were burned and discarded in the nearby town of Upton, authorities said.Inn owner Julie Bullard, 65, was killed Sunday, police said. The following day, her daughter Selby and Cynthia Beatson, 43, were also killed when they arrived at the inn unexpectedly, a state police affidavit said. All three women were dismembered.State police were alerted to the carnage Monday evening by Bullard family members who arrived at inn to find a woman's body and blood outside. Nielsen's father told troopers that he thought his son had committed the killing, according to prosecutors.Nielsen, questioned by detectives Monday night, admitted killing all four people, the affidavit said. He then led a detective to Upton, where Nielsen said he had disposed of Whitehurst's body, the document said.Whitehurst, described as a handyman who was helping out Julie Bullard, had been staying in the inn, a white clapboard farmhouse with a red metal roof, while he was in the area.Julie Bullard had purchased the building, which had been converted into a bed and breakfast with a pool and tennis court, after moving to Maine two years ago. She had operated a bed and breakfast in San Francisco that she sold prior to coming to the area, a magnet for skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts."Her daughter, Selby, had just lost her husband in a car crash and I think in some ways she and Selby were doing something together, getting a fresh start," said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce.Julie Bullard decided in February to close the Black Bear, Zinchuk said, and there was a "For Sale" sign out front. Selby Bullard had recently been working part-time with Beatson at Apple Tree Realty Inc.As news of the murders spread Tuesday, people in the community reacted with shock and horror. Newry is near western Maine's border with New Hampshire and about 75 miles northwest of Portland."The whole thing is surreal. It's a shock to this small community," said Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury Inn, where Nielsen worked. White described him as a reliable employee, a good cook and "soft-spoken, quiet individual."Police stressed that the string of killings, unusual in a state with a low crime rate, was over. Nielsen knew at least two of the victims — Whitehurst and the older Bullard — and "probably" knew all four, Poulin said.Nielsen, who formerly lived and worked in Farmington in western Maine, had a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunken driving, but nothing more serious, Farmington police said. His license was revoked a year ago, said Farmington Lt. Jack Peck.Nielsen was ordered held without bail. He appeared in court Tuesday wearing an orange jumpsuit and bulletproof vest. Nielsen uttered only two words in court: "I am," when the judge asked if he was present. He appeared calm and smiled as he was brought into and left the courtroom. ___ Associated Press writers Jerry Harkavy and David   

Subway fire in New York forces thousands to evacuate 2 trains, minor injuries reported -

 

Subway fire in New York forces thousands to evacuate 2 trains, minor injuries reported(AP) -

NEW YORK-A fire broke out on elevated subway tracks during evening rush hour, forcing thousands of people to evacuate, filling a platform with smoke and slightly injuring dozens of people.Between 3,000 and 4,000 people were evacuated Wednesday from two trains in Brooklyn, the fire department said. Fifteen people, including three firefighters, suffered minor injuries including smoke inhalation. During the evacuation, power to the tracks was shut off so riders could walk safely from the trains to the subway platform, the fire department said.Most of the injured were taken to a hospital after the smoke was reported around 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) at the DeKalb Avenue stop on the B line, which runs between Brooklyn and the Bronx and passes through Manhattan.New York City Transit said it believed there was a fire just beyond the platform on a wooden tie. It did not cite a cause.Service was affected on parts of five subway lines, complicating the commute for countless New Yorkers.Passenger Danilo Ignacio said that the heat in his subway car, with the air conditioning off, was almost unbearable and that he had to calm an asthmatic woman who was having trouble breathing."It was almost like being in a sardine can, but it's being cooked while you're on it," Ignacio said.Train traffic on the Manhattan Bridge was restored by about 9:30 p.m. (0130 GMT), with some delays, New York City Transit said. Service during the Thursday morning rush hour was not expected to be affected.Several subway riders complained that it took more than an hour before firefighters arrived, pulling some of them out through windows.2006-08-17T03:52:17Z

 



Man Wins $1M in Rotting Corpse Lawsuit(AP) - NEW YORK- -

 

 

A jury has awarded $1 million to a man who claimed a hospital let his mother's body decompose so badly that he couldn't hold an open casket wake and funeral.Veronica Gilson was 67 when she died during an operation on March 28, 2002. In his lawsuit, William Gilson, 27, of New York City, said Westchester Square Hospital left his mother's body in a heated hallway for 38 hours because its morgue was overcrowded. The suit states the body had decomposed to the point that a funeral home was unable to embalm it.The jury verdict was announced Wednesday. The hospital says it may appeal.2006-08-18T00:43:57Z

 




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