FAA gave Comair a wrong map

It certainly doesn't fully explain the accident, since every airlines got the same wrong map, and there has been only one accident. But do I think it's related? I surely think so.

Airline spokeswoman Kate Marx said the airline had an old map at the time and that the alert was prompted because even the new diagram it received Friday, two weeks after the deadly crash, didn't reflect all the recent changes to the airport's taxiway.

Marx said the outdated information came from the federal government and was supplied to all airlines, not just Comair.

The National Aeronautical Charting Office, a branch of the Federal Aviation Administration, publishes the maps through vendors hired by the airline.

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said Tuesday that the maps aren't changed to reflect every airport construction project, and airlines are alerted to those changes through notices to flight crews.

There was a notice about the Lexington construction, Brown said.

It's just amazing to me that pilots are not supposed to follow what's provided by the federal government. Then why do we need them?