EKB News

Just a little over a week ago a U.S District Court judge ruled that 40 year old Jaime Hebert of Louisana, the widow of 39 year old Brian Keith Woodward, who died in the Comair Flight 5191 crash of August 27, 2006 at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, could re-instate a claim of loss of consortium against Comair. Former Executive Director Michael Gobb, who was praised for his leadership in the wake of the crash, resigned amid a spending probe in which it was found the airport and taxpayers who support it allegedly picked up tabs for top executives. A state audit revealed that, in three years, officials tallied more than $500,000 in questionable personal expenses. Earlier this month, Attorney General Jack Conway issued a formal opinion that the public interest in a $10,000 check written in July 2008 to Gobb outweighed Gobb's privacy interests, and the board of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport violated the Open Records Act when it withheld the information from the public.