Official Blames Safety Flaws in U.S. Aviation System for Comair Crash
Recent findings regarding last summer's deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people sow that nine other critical errors should have been included as contributing factors in the NTSB's final report.
In an eight-page concurring opinion obtained by The Associated Press, National Transportation Safety Board member Deborah Hersman agreed that the pilots' failure to notice clues they were going down a runway too short for takeoff was the primary cause.
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against Comair by families of victims; 10 families have settled their cases. Several of the suits have been settled.
Comair itself has named the federal government, Blue Grass Airport and an airport administrator in federal lawsuits filed against the airline by the crash victims' families.
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