Comair Crash
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I extend my most deepest thoughts and prayers and sympathies to all the DELTA and COMAIR employees and the families of those killed and a speedy recovery for the first officer. A CRJ pilot told me that a fully loaded CRJ needs is 5000 minimum feet of runway.
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Amazingly poor taste at the Emmies Awards.
My better half, who was watching the Emmy Awards, just told me that the show started with a skit that features host Conan O'Brian riding on airplane that crashes!!.
Why did no one think to pull the skit?
My better half, who was watching the Emmy Awards, just told me that the show started with a skit that features host Conan O'Brian riding on airplane that crashes!!.
Why did no one think to pull the skit?
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With all due respect to the crew.....I would be interested in knowing what kind of rest the crew had prior to this accident. Just the facts, please. I am sure we will all know soon, but it is one of the first things I asked myself when I saw the time of the accident. If I am too early in asking such a question, please forgive me...I just think fatigue is the elephant no one sees in the aviation safety room.
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Best. Greeter.
How horrible. Everyone involved is in our thoughts and prayers.
According to CNN, the President of Comair said that the crew had rest far in excess of what's required (so "far beyond" 8 hours):
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/27/plane.crash/
According to CNN, the President of Comair said that the crew had rest far in excess of what's required (so "far beyond" 8 hours):
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/27/plane.crash/
I know that at the regionals, trips called COD, or Continuously on Duty are fairly common. You work the last flight out to a station arriving very late, then work the first flight home early in the morning. Those are the only two legs you do so you are no exceeding your duty period and your layover is more of a field break.
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A huge tragedy for those taken, and even more for their families.
Has anyone heard an update on the condition of the FO?
Has anyone heard an update on the condition of the FO?
First, my prays to the familys of the passengers and crew. This entire day I was thinking to myself how could the pilot(s) not realized they were on RWY 26 and not RWY 22. Interesting picture from Google Maps show how the pilot(s) could have easily turned onto RWY 26 without even seeing the painted RWY designator. On set of TWY/RWY guidelines passes well ahead of the painted 26.
http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&a...mp;t=k&om=1
http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&a...mp;t=k&om=1
True, but there's a DL employee posting on Flyertalk who claims that there's no way this crew was COD since Comair doesn't have a pilot base at ATL. So they're saying: No pilot base = no way a crew would begin and end their trip at ATL. The earlier flight into LEX got in around 8:00pm - many assume that the crew flew in on that flight.
And what were the FAA controllers doing at this time? If He was cleared for T/O and on the wrong runway, why did the controller(s) not intervene?
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