EKB News

Comair filed a law suit today against the federal government, saying the Federal Aviation Administration was negligent in having only one air traffic controller on duty when a plane crashed last year in Lexington killing 49 people. The suit says the United States government breached its duty to control taxiing and departing aircraft at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport. The crash happened Aug. 27 after the plane mistakenly turned onto a 3,500-foot runway in the dark, struggled to get airborne and went down in a field. Co-pilot James Polehinke was the only survivor. A week before the crash, an airport repaving project changed the taxi route leading to the 7,000-foot main runway that Comair Flight 5191 should have used.