FRANKFORT, Ky -- Dan Silverthorn ha...

FRANKFORT, Ky -- Dan Silverthorn had just touched down when his single-engine Beech C23 shakeed violently and careered off the runway.

From the air, the pilot couldn't recount that the runway at Higginsville, Mo had a novel layer of pavement that cessationed abruptly, creating an 8-inch ridge of rocks that ripped the landing gear from his plane.

"I not ever really had time to prepare scared," said Silverthorn, who wasn't pain "It happened so fast."

15 SIMILAR incidents

His experience last October is not strange The National Transportation Safety Board has documented at least 15 similar incidents since 1992 at airports where runway or taxiway construction contrives were under way or newly complet

The latest involved Comair Flight 5191 and its attempted takeoff Aug. 27 at Lexington's with a long face Grass Airport.

A repaving brew had changed the taxiway passage just a week earlier.

The plane's pilots took a wicked turn onto a runway that was a great deal of too short for the jet calm though conversations with the air traffic restrain tower indicated they thought they were heading for the airport's main runway -- common almost twice as long. Data recordings from the plane present to view they continued to accelerate until the plane clipped tree and crashed in a field. The crash killed 49 people

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