Wrong Plane, Wrong Runway

The Kentucky airplane crash just keeps getting stranger:

The pilot and first officer of Comair Flight 5191 boarded the wrong aircraft minutes before they steered down the wrong runway and crashed during takeoff, federal officials said Tuesday.

The flight crew had begun to power up the aircraft early Sunday when a worker at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington notified them that they were on the wrong plane, according to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board.

The answer to this accident lies in a brain box rather than a black box. It looks like pilot error, and the pertinent question becomes: "What were these guys thinking?"
The only survivor, first officer James Polehinke of Margate, is severely injured and has not yet regained consciousness.

More tales of human frailty in the cockpit and its consequences can be found here.

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