Heartbreaking ATC & CVR: Comair Flight 5191 Last Moments

On August 27, 2006, N431CA, a CRJ-100ER operating as Comair (Delta Connection) Flight 5*191* from Lexington, KY to Atlanta, GA was on initial takeoff roll when the aircraft rotated 7 seconds early, stalled, and crashed off the approach end of Runway 8. 49 were killed.
First Officer Jim Polehinke survived.
At the time of the incident, Lexington-BlueGrass Airport had two runways;
04/22
08/26
On the morning of this incident, Runway 22 was active, and previous departures had no problems departing.
Comair 5191 was assigned Runway 22, with the winds at 200@08.
Runway 26 comes before Runway 22, when taxiing out the terminal.
The aircraft had to cross the threshold of Runway 26 and then take an outer-taxiway to Runway 22.
Comair 5191 stopped at the threshold of 26, not aware they were not at 22.
RDO-2 said "Toledo*, Comair 121, ready to go."
in which the Lexington ATCT controller replied:
"Comair 191, Lexington Tower, fly runway heading, cleared for takeoff."
In which RDO-2 replied, "Runway heading, cleared for takeoff, 191."
As the aircraft accelerated on 26, The First Officer made an interesting comment about the lighting on the runway.
"That is weird with no lights".
no rejection was called.
A few more seconds later, The Captain called out V1, VE, to which the Copilot pulled the yoke up for procedure, but suddenly, the aircraft started falling back down.
The aircraft impacted the ground slightly and went back up, A Stall Warbler started ringing in the cockpit, then the recording ended.
It was the second-deadliest accident involving the CRJ100/200; two years earlier, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5250 claimed 55 lives.
The flight's first officer, James Polehinke, was the pilot flying at the time of the accident and was the sole survivor; however, Captain Jeffrey Clay was responsible for taxiing to the wrong runway. In the National Transportation Safety Board's report on the crash, investigators concluded that the likely cause of the crash was pilot error.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew members' failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversations during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control clearances.
In July 2007, a Comair flying instructor testified that he would have failed both pilots for violating Sterile Cockpit Rules. Later that month, the NTSB released its final report, citing this "non-pertinent conversation" as a contributing factor in the accident.
The Comair 5191 Memorial can be found at the University of Kentucky Arbouretum, made by Douwe Blumberg.
In 1993, a similar incident occured at Lexington Airport, but the Local Controller operating at the time was able to quickly cancel takeoff clearence and get them to abort, thus, saving their lives.
The crash was featured in the third episode of Season 21 of Mayday,, also known as Air Crash Investigation. The episode is titled "Tragic Takeoff". The flight's first officer, the crash's only survivor, was later featured in a film about sole survivors of plane crashes.
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SOURCES:
Old Google Earth Photo from 2005/2006
PHOTO: www.jetphotos....
ATC REC: FAA Archives, prepared by Lexington ATCT
CVR: • Comair Flight 5191 CVR...
NTSB REPORT: www.google.com...
Also feel free to check the Wikipedia Article written about Comair 5191.
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[@cjlaviation]

So sad! Goes to show how every second counts. Thanks for the great upload! :)

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[@ThunderBerb]

Very sad, but good video

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

those cvr's can really get a grip on you.. just goes to show humans overlook things all the time . I think it was the beggining of a brand new day and everything was going well.🛐🛐✅✅ resquise in pace , makes me sad for these people and also co pilot and families.

[@StarTheAvgeek]

This one was quite difficult to edit, I can't imagine what those 49 souls went through in those last seconds. I feel horrible for the families and the copilot.
Thank you for watching.

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@@StarTheAvgeek the integrity of editing is eggcellent

[@EvoBlue66]

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[@user-st4gq2ox8m]

How could two ATP rated Pilots cross a lite runway 22 and line up on an unlit runway 26? What did the toxicology report say? They went through a chain link fence at the end of 26.

[@JupiterTechnology12.000]

1 Survivor stayed back
The 49 others onboard all Died.