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Tue, Aug 29, 2006

ANN Special Feature: NTSB News Conference On Comair 5191 Crash (Tuesday's Briefing) 08.30.06

The FAA has reportedly admitted the tower at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, was understaffed when a Comair CRJ-100 attempted to take-off from the wrong runway on Sunday. 49 of the 50 people on board were killed in the crash. Only the copilot... who was actually handling the take-off... survived. He's still in critical condition at the University of Kentucky Hospital. NTSB Member Debra Hersman says the FAA tower manager told her investigators having just one controller on duty has been considered standard operating procedure for almost a decade. But CNN has obtained an FAA memo dated last November... which says a minimum of two controllers are needed in that tower at all times... one to handle controller functions... the other to deal with administrative and other duties. We listen in  on the latest NTSB briefing from Lexington... and board member Debra Hersman.

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