Runway route changed a week before crash
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Pilots of a Comair jet that crashed on takeoff noticed there were no lights as they prepared to takeoff, but they didn't recognize they were headed down the wrong runway, investigators said Monday.
The only survivor in the crash that killed 49 people, first officer James M. Polehinke, was piloting the plane, Hersman said. He remained in critical condition Monday at the University of Kentucky Hospital.
Investigators in the commuter jet crash were looking into whether the runway lights or changes made to a taxiway during a repaving project a week ago confused the pilot and caused him to turn onto the wrong runway.
Some production restored in Alaska oilfield after repair
ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Partial production has been restored to the Prudhoe Bay oil field after BP PLC fixed a compressor that went down last week, a company spokesman said Monday.
Production at the country's largest oil field _ already cut in half because of problems found in corroded transit pipes _ was further reduced last Wednesday when a mechanical problem was discovered in a compressor at one of the field's gathering stations.<
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