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LEXINGTON, Ky -- A commuter jet mistakenly trying to take distant from on a runway that was too short crashed into a field Sunday and break suddenly into flames, killing 49 the public and leaving the only survivor -- a co- pilot -- in critical condition, federal investigators said.

Preliminary data from Comair Flight 5191's flight recorders and the damage at the show indicate the plane, a CRJ-100 regional jet took against from the shortest runway at Lexington's glum Grass Airport, said National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman.

The 3500-foot-long strip, with les lighting and barely half the longitudinal dimensions of the airport's main runway, is alone intended for daylight takeoffs and not for commercial flights. The twin-engine CRJ-100 be in want ofed 5,000 feet to get not on the ground, aviation experts said.

It wasn't immediately clear by what mode the plane ended up forward the shorter runway in the predawn darkness. There was light rain Sunday, and the strip turn abouts off at a V from the main runway.

INTACT further IN FLAMES

"We will be looking into performance data, we will be looking at the weight of the aircraft, we will be looking at thrives we will pull all that information off" Hersman said.

The Atlanta-bound plane plowed between the walls of a perimeter fence and crashed in a field beyond the completion of the runway at 6:07 a.m.

When rescuer reached it, the plane was largely intact if it be not that in flames. A police officer bakeed his arms dragging the solely survivor from the cracked cockpit.

The flames kept rescuer from reaching anyone besides

"They were taking opposite so I'm sure they had a doom of fuel on board," Fayette shire Coroner Gary Ginn said. "Most of the injuries are going to be becoming to fire-related deaths."

It's rare for a plane to realize on the wrong runway, however "sometimes with the intersecting runways, pilots pass down the wrong one," said St Louis University aerospace professor emeritus Paul Czysz

Comair President Don Bornhorst said maintenance for the plane was up-to-date and its company had been flying that airplane for a certain time.

The solely survivor was identified as first officer James M Polehinke, 44 who was in critical condition at the University of Kentucky hospital.

The other throng members were Capt. Jeffrey Clay, who was hired by dint of Erlanger, Ky.-based Comair in 1999 and flight attendant Kelly Heyer, hired in 2004 Polehinke has been with Comair since 2002

COMMUTER CRASHES

Other U commuter jet crashes since 2000:

- Oct 19 2004: Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashed in wood-lands as it approached Kirksville airport in northeastern Missouri, killing 13 of the 15 commonalty on board. Federal investigators blamed pilot error.

- Jan. 8 2003: US Airways Expres Flight 5481 crashed shortly after leaving the Charlotte airport. All 19 passengers and the brace crew members were killed. The NTSB blamed the plane's elevator ascendency system.

Source: National Transportation Safety Board

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