'Wrong runway' probe over plane crash

Investigators in Kentucky, probing a weekend plane crash in which 49 people were killed, were today trying to determine why the commuter aircraft used a runway that was too short for take-off.

In the worst American plane crash in nearly five years, Atlanta-bound Comair Flight 5191 with 50 people on board ploughed through a Lexington airport perimeter fence before dawn on Sunday, crashed in a nearby field and burst into flames.