Friday, August 26, 2011

Sculpture To Honor Comair Flight 5191 Victims

{Kentucky}...Exactly five years after Comair Flight 5191 went down near Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, hundreds of relatives and friends of those who died will gather at the University of Kentucky Arboretum on Saturday to dedicate a sculpture depicting 49 birds in flight, memorializing the 49 people who lost their lives aboard the plane that crashed. The victims' families placed mementos into capsules encased in each bird. The sculpture sets on a granite circle inscribed with the names of those who died in the crash. The unveiling is the culmination of work by a commission that raised about $250,000 for the memorial. The lone survivor of the flight, co-pilot James Polehinke, won't be attending the service. Polehinke, who was rescued from the charred cockpit, lost a leg and suffered other severe injuries.