US Plane Crash Kills All Aboard, Save "Pilot"

Politics | August 27, 2006, Sunday // 00:00

All fifty people aboard a US commuter plane have been killed in a Sunday crash, save for one, identified as the pilot in unconfirmed reports.

The Comair flight crashed in a wooded area shortly after take off, with authorities reporting and then admitting to 49 deaths.


Both of the plane's black boxes have been discovered and are now examined.

The survivor has been transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

Authorities still don't know what brought down the plane that was travelling from Lexington to Atlanta.

In the meantime a training plane crashed in a street at Poland's capital city of Warsaw, killing both men on board. The 42-year-old instructor and his student died in the flames that engulfed the plane as it wrecked into the ground. The accident took place as they were attempting a landing at a private airstrip.

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