Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), "Blue Grass Airport Runway Examined for Evidence in Comair 5191 Crash"

          A private jet with a cockpit comparable to Comair's Bombardier CRJ 1000 went down the runway at 6:30 a.m. and taxied down part of it three times in an attempt to learn what the Comair Flight 5191 pilot and co-pilot saw on Aug. 27 before the 6:07 a.m. crash.
          Lawyers said the test confirmed what they already believed: Pilots could not have seen the end of Runway 26 -- which is 3,500 feet long and not intended for large planes -- and signage and runway markings were inadequate. An NTSB report earlier this week that said the plane's three wheels were still on the ground when it left the runway. It raises the question of when -- and if -- the pilots knew they were on the wrong runway, accident investigator David Gleave said. When the plane left the runway, it was "airborne but not really flying," he said.
          "It is difficult to tell the end of the runway is coming up," Gleave said. "It would not be obvious. Maybe one or two seconds, you would suddenly recognize that's it, you've run out of runway. Therefore, there is no chance at that point to ... try and stagger into the air."
          Gleave, the owner and chief investigator of London-based consulting firm Aviation Safety Investigation, has been retained by Lexington attorney Joe Savage and San Francisco lawyers Robert Lieff or David Fiol. They represent the family of Christina Anderson.

Learn more about the August 2006 Comair Flight 5191 plane crash and Lieff Cabraser's work on behalf of families of victims.