Suit filed against Comair for Kentucky crash

The family of a woman killed when Comair Flight 5191 took off on the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., and crashed in flames has sued the airline, blaming it for the country’s deadliest airplane disaster in five years. The lawsuit accuses Comair of negligence and says passenger Rebecca L. Adams suffered “conscious pain and suffering” when the plane went down and quickly burned with 49 people still inside.

The accident was caused when the pilots mistakenly turned onto the wrong runway, one too short for the twin-engine plane, and tried to take off. The plane crashed in a field just beyond Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport.

The crash “could not have happened if those having control of the instrumentality had not been negligent,” attorney Bobby Wombles of Lexington said in the lawsuit. No specific damage amount is listed in the lawsuit, which was filed in Fayette County Circuit Court.