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Advance on NTSB Probable Cause Hearing for Comair Flight #5191 Crash: Pilots of Comair Flight 5191 Took Off Into Black Hole – Worse Example of Cockpit Management, Victim's Lawyer Says.
July 25, 2007
New York — The pilots of the regional airline who mistakenly took off on the wrong runway from Lexington, Kentucky's Blue Grass Airport last year failed to practice the most basic safety procedures prior to the accident that killed all the passengers and one pilot, according to Marc Moller, an aviation attorney with the New York law firm Kreindler & Kreindler. Mr. Moller represents the family of George Brunacini a successful real estate developer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Brunacini died in the crash.
On Thursday July 26, the National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing to discuss the contributing factors that led to the tragic crash and fire on August 27, 2006. Investigators will certainly focus on the cockpit voice recorder, which revealed that both men in command of the flight conversing about personal subjects during a period of time when FAA rules prohibit non-essential conversation. The pilots confirmed the runway to which the commercial jet flight was dispatched by air traffic controllers but positioned the airplane and took off from runway used for general aviation airplanes. The length of the shorter runway was insufficient and the plane was unable to remain airborne, crashing into a field and erupting in flames.
"If there was any uncertainty about the runway selected, the air field lighting or the construction going on at the airport, the crew should not have proceeded with takeoff before resolving those questions," Mr. Moller said. "Instead they took off into a black hole, on a short runway which led to the deaths of all but one onboard."
George Brunacini was a 60-year old father and grandfather, who was actively engaged in real estate development projects in New Mexico, and had a passion for horses. He was returning home from a trip to Lexington on Comair Flight 5191. Kreindler & Kreindler represents the family of Mr. Brunacini. Mr. Moller and George Brunacini's son Angelo are available to speak to reporters about their expectations for Thursday's hearing into the cause of the Comair disaster.
Kreindler & Kreindler is a New York-based aviation law firm. Many of the lawyers are pilots or engineers. Kreindler & Kreindler has been retained in nearly every major aviation disaster in the United States and many overseas as well.
Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, Tradition of Excellence, New York, New Jersey, Boston, Los Angeles.
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