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Flight 5191 investigator becomes NTSB chair

Debbie Hersman, who became the public face of the National Transportation Safety Board in the wake of the 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191, was sworn in Tuesday as that agency's chairman.

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Family of Habitat leader Pat Smith finishing Katrina project

Pat Smith might not have lived to realize his dream of providing homes to victims of Katrina, but his family and volunteers who traveled here from Lexington, Ky., felt his presence this week as they worked to complete the homes.
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Airport board told to hand over records

Lexington's airport board is violating the state's Open Records Act until it adequately responds to a request for records by an attorney for one of the 49 people who died in the Aug. 27 crash of Comair Flight 5191 near Blue Grass Airport, according to an opinion from Attorney General Greg Stumbo...
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Coroner sees his job as caring for the living

On that Sunday morning, only a few hours after the plane had crashed, Gary Ginn knew for certain something all the rest of us feared.
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'Toledo' word mystery gets 2 solutions

Documents released yesterday explain the "Toledo" mystery -- sort of -- that emerged after the crash of Comair Flight 5191.
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Survivor issues statement of gratitude

The sole survivor of the crash of Comair Flight 5191 yesterday expressed gratitude to emergency personnel who saved him from the plane's ruins.
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Crash survivor leaves hospital

The sole survivor of the crash of Comair Flight 5191 left Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital yesterday after about two months there.
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NTSB makes safety recommendations

Spurred by the Comair Flight 5191 crash, the National Transportation Safety Board yesterday recommended that the federal government order commercial airlines to require pilots to cross-check their instruments to ensure they're taking off from the correct runway.
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Airport releases emergency dispatch tapes

Sirens wail and breathless emergency workers try feverishly to find and help victims of downed Comair Flight 5191 on dramatic emergency dispatch communications released by Blue Grass Airport yesterday.
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Owner of crash site sues airport

The owner of the property where Comair Flight 5191 crashed in August has sued the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport board in a dispute over the value of that land, which the airport would need in order to relocate and lengthen the runway used in the fatal crash.
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Airport denies fault in crash

Blue Grass Airport shares no blame in the Comair Flight 5191 crash that killed 49 people, and "the sole proximate cause of the tragic accident ... was the negligent and wrongful conduct of Comair and its flight crew," the airport said in court documents yesterday.