Court rules off-duty Comair pilot's death work related
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the death of an off-duty pilot killed in the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in August 2006 was work related.
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The ruling handed down Thursday opens the way for the family of Clarence Fortney to receive worker's compensation benefits from Airtran Airways Inc.
Fortney and 48 other people died when the Comair regional jet crashed after taking off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington.
Fortney lived in Lexington but worked out of Airtran's hub in Atlanta. Airtran had argued that Fortney's death was not work related because he was commuting to work.
Justices ordered the case sent back to an administrative law judge for further consideration.
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