Sunday, August 27, 2006
The Kentucky plane crash
I've been watching the reports all day long about the plane crash in Kentucky and a couple of things about this crash is odd to me. First of all, I find it really strange that the pilot who has worked for Comair for years, who has piloted this type of plane for years too, and who has taken off and landed at this airport for years and decided this morning to take the short, unlit airstrip rather than the well-lit, long one! Why would he make this fatal choice today? Here are two possibilities that I have come up with today: 1) The pilot and co-pilot were drunk off their asses and had no idea what they were doing.... or, 2) This crash this morning was intentional by the pilot (a suicide perhaps?). The cause of the crash may be neither but it just seems odd to me that a skilled pilot would make the mistake of using a runway that he knows isn't the right on! Also, there are only two runways at this airport. Two choices he had and he chose the riskier one. Weird. I've been thinking back all day about the Egyptian pilot who INTENTIONALLY drove the commercial airplane he was piloting (Egypt Air) into the Atlantic Ocean after it had just taken off from Florida. This pilot SUICIDED THE FLIGHT and he was heard on the black box recorder saying stuff about Allah before impact. So, with this in mind, there is a possibility that today's airplane crash was also intentional. During one of today's press conferences in Kentucky a reporter asked about the pilot being German and I thought it was an odd question. Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if the reporter was also thinking that this was a 'suicide mission'. Could be. We'll have to wait and see.
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Very good points Uncle Glenny. We're now learning that the runway was indeed resurfaced, but let's think about this for a moment: the short runway is never lit up, because it is a daytime runway used mostly by owners of private small jets. Even if the runway was not lit well, you'd think just by experience of the pilots they would have known when to lift off IF THEY HAD USED THE LONGER RUNWAY.
I still find the crash really odd and I find it even weirder that the passenger list hasn't been released.
Like you pointed out, it could very well be that the pilot was hungover and tired too and this is why the fatal mistake happened that morning.
All plane crashes are a tragedy. I can't even image what the families must be going through especially when they've learned that their loved one was burned to death. Let's hope none of them had time to realize what had hit them and that they died instantly!
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I still find the crash really odd and I find it even weirder that the passenger list hasn't been released.
Like you pointed out, it could very well be that the pilot was hungover and tired too and this is why the fatal mistake happened that morning.
All plane crashes are a tragedy. I can't even image what the families must be going through especially when they've learned that their loved one was burned to death. Let's hope none of them had time to realize what had hit them and that they died instantly!
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