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Kentucky.com: Flight 5191: Stories from Sept. 2-21, 2006
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• Past incidents may hold clues
  Pilots have inadvertently taxied to the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport at least three times since 1993. On two occasions, either the pilot or someone in the control tower caught the mistake. Last Sunday, no one caught the mistake and 49 people died. Comair Flight 5191 crashed and burst into flames at 6:07 a.m. Sunday, killing 49 of 50 passengers and crew members on board, just seconds after taking off from a runway that was too short for the loaded CRJ-100 jet. Investigators quickly determined that the plane attempted to take off from Blue Grass Airport's 3,500-foot Runway 26, which is used by light planes, instead of the 7,000-foot Runway 22, which is designed for airliners.
• Controllers say they'll have to work when tired
  Air traffic controllers said yesterday they will be forced to work even when they're tired after the Federal Aviation Administration imposes a new contract this weekend. Controller fatigue may be an issue in the investigation of the Comair Flight 5191 crash that killed 49. The solo controller in the tower at Lexington Blue Grass Airport had his back turned on the airfield when the pilots took off on the wrong runway early Sunday morning. He told investigators he'd had only two hours of sleep and worked 15 hours in the previous 24. Sleep researchers say such sleep deprivation typically causes attention lapses and slowed reaction times.
• Errors are reported, but never eliminated
  "It was my first (position) of the day. I had just come from my daughter's birthday party and my mind was not on ATC," or air traffic control. That's what a controller at Blue Grass Airport wrote in a March 2004 report in which he or she described directing an incoming B737 into the path of an outgoing plane that holds from 68 to 74 passengers. The controller realized the mistake - as did the pilots who saw each other - and got them on separate paths before they crashed into each other. But the controller knew he or she had "messed up big time" and filed the report explaining what happened with NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System. "I was very lucky that ACR Y (aircraft Y) saw ACR X (aircraft X)," wrote the controller, whose name was redacted from the report. "I hope this helps, I was very complacent and not busy at all. This scared me and all within 3 mins (minutes) of sitting down. Like I said, my mind was still at my little girl's birthday party."
• UK official Larry Turner hailed for strength, faith, humility
  When Larry Turner's father died, Turner wrote in his journal that his dad had long been his rock. Clay Turner tearfully used those same words yesterday about his own dad, Larry, who died in the crash of Flight 5191. He prays he lives up to the standard both men set. "I hope that God can give me strength so that some day my own sons can say the same thing about me," Clay Turner told a gathering of nearly 1,200 yesterday at Southland Christian Church. Family and faith figured prominently in the hourlong service, which was moved to Lexington's largest church to accommodate the crowd. Turner, 51, had been a longtime member of Christ Church. Judge Tim Philpot remembered his longtime friend at that Methodist congregation as a nearly perfect person, not because he always did things right but because he was a humble man who strived to live perfectly in his faith. Larry Turner, Philpot said, also loved nothing more than his family: Clay, wife Lois and daughters Amy and Molly.
• Michael Ryan: Wife thought she had 'dodged a bullet' after his bypass surgery
  His gregarious nature, Irish accent and stubborn persistence made Michael Ryan the perfect closer. Ryan, 55, left Ireland in 1981 and became a successful stockbroker in Kentucky, where he helped found one of Lexington's first locally owned investment firms. He did it with one of those personalities that filled up a room, said Kathy Ryan, his wife of nearly 14 years. After meeting in the Lexington office building they shared in 1990, Michael asked Kathy to lunch.
• Fletcher returns to Germany
  Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who returned to Kentucky from Germany last Monday after the crash of Comair Flight 5191, left the state yesterday to return to Germany. Aachen, Germany, is hosting this year's World Equestrian Games, which are to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington in 2010. Fletcher is to attend closing ceremonies this weekend. Fletcher told reporters yesterday morning that he is pleased how the state has responded to Sunday's plane crash that killed 49 of the 50 aboard in Lexington. He said it was "very important" for him to cut short his trip to Germany earlier this week to represent the state to the victims' families and now believes "most people understand how important" it is for him to return to Germany. First lady Glenna Fletcher has remained in Germany this week to represent the state, the governor said. Their son, Ben, lives in Germany.
• Clark, Bobbie Benton left a legacy
  Five white doves were released from baskets at the conclusion of yesterday's funeral for Clark and Bobbie Benton, two of the 49 people who died in Sunday's crash of Comair Flight 5191. The birds circled the burial site at Buffalo Springs Cemetery, just west of Stanford. "The white dove of peace reminds us of the place of peace," said Wayne Galloway, pastor of Fort Logan Church of Christ, which the Bentons attended. During the funeral service earlier at Calvary Hill Baptist Church, the Bentons' twin caskets were side by side. Hers was covered with a large spray of pink roses. An American flag was draped over his casket to signify his service as a Marine. Galloway said he and others are asking difficult questions in the wake of the Bentons' deaths.
• 'It'll feel better when it quits hurting'
  White linen handkerchiefs were placed in the chairs of Larry Turner's wife, two daughters and son before his funeral, because at times like these people forget the things they'll need the most. They were placed there by Rebecca Hatton, guest services director at Southland Christian Church. She then put 75 individual mini-packs of Kleenex in the chairs set aside for the rest of Larry Turner's extended family. "Do you know how I knew how to do that?" Hatton said. "Because somebody did it for me when my mom passed away." Over the weekend, she will do the same thing at least twice for the families of victims of Flight 5191. Over the next week, three or four more victims will be mourned at Lexington's largest church. Last Sunday, we were a state in shock. We are now a state in mourning. In Stanford, there were Marines in dress blue uniforms folding the American flag that had draped the casket of Clark Benton. The funeral procession that carried Benton and his wife, Bobbie, to Buffalo Spring Cemetery had crept past Gilliland Flower Shop, which had lowered its flag to half-staff, past the gray antique Farmall tractor parked in front of Saufley Implement Co., past Coleman's Drug Store.
• Ad flap prompts law panel's investigation
  The Kentucky Bar Association named a special task force yesterday to look into complaints of improper conduct by lawyers who put ads in the Herald-Leader on Wednesday to make contact with families of Comair Flight 5191 crash victims. The three-member task force -- thought to be the first of its kind ever appointed by the bar -- also will investigate any other complaints about the conduct of lawyers in connection with the crash. After an accident, direct contact with victims' families is prohibited for 30 days by state law and for 45 days by federal law, but it is not clear whether the laws prohibit advertising, said Bruce K. Davis, the bar association's executive director. The three ads published on Wednesday were later determined to violate other bar association advertising rules and were pulled from Thursday's editions. "If these ads are done correctly, they still may be permissible later on," Davis said in an interview. "But after some time has passed by, hopefully, it won't inflame the public like this has."
• 2 victims' families file first lawsuits
  Two lawsuits were filed yesterday by families of Comair Flight 5191 victims, the first of what attorneys say will be many against the airline and government agencies in Sunday's crash that killed 49 people at Blue Grass Airport. The family of Flight 5191 victim Rebecca Adams filed the first lawsuit yesterday morning in Fayette Circuit Court in Lexington. Another representing the family of JoAnn Wright was filed yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Covington. Joshua Adams, Rebecca Adams' son, said at a news conference that the f