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Events on Sunday 27 August 2006 1
2006Comair Flight 5191 crashAirliner crashes on takeoff in LexingtonA Comair regional jet crashed after attempting takeoff from the wrong, shorter runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard were killed. The disaster led to renewed scrutiny of runway safety procedures in the United States.