Lack of lights noted by pilot before crash

Thursday, January 18, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Seconds before the crash of a commuter jet that took off from the wrong runway, the co-pilot noted it was "weird" that the Lexington, Ky., airstrip had no lights, according to the transcript of a cockpit recording released Wednesday. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard Comair Flight 5191 died Aug. 27 after the plane took off in the dark from a runway too short for a passenger jet.

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