Originally Posted by
atpcliff
Hi.
"Pinnacle and Colgan both demonstrated gross failures of basic airmanship and judgement, backed up by gross lack of professionalism. Comair wasn't much better...121 does NOT allow use of a non-lighted runways at night, honest mistakes aside that should have stopped the whole evolution then and there."
The LEX accident was very complex, and the quote above highlights some of that. The NOTAMS said that the shorter runway did not have lights working, and the longer runway had lights that worked. ACTUALLY, the SHORTER runway had all the lights on, and the longer runway had some lights that were not working. So, if you followed the NOTAMS, you took off on the fully light runway, which the NOTAMS said was the longer runway. BUT, that early morning, the SHORTER runway was the ONLY one with all of it's lights on.
It is things like the above that did not make the LEX accident a simple pilot-stupid accident where they went to the wrong runway, with no other factors involved.
cliff
GRB
I did research on this accident in college and I never came accross something that said the lights were up on runway 26. The one thing that notams did say about lighting was the the centerline lights were out on 22 the runway they sould have went down. Here is something straight from the CVR as they were going down the runway.
06:06:16.3
HOT-2 dat is weird with no lights.
They were not in the right location for takeoff even on the right runway.