/ 27 August 2006

Plane with about 50 aboard crashes in Kentucky

A Comair jet carrying about 50 people crashed on Sunday shortly after take-off in Lexington, Kentucky, CNN reported.

There were no immediate reports on survivors.

CNN said the plane was leaving Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport, bound for Atlanta, when it went down in woods about a kilometre from the airport.

Comair is a unit of Delta Air Lines. – Reuters