, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Whatever the flight should be called depends on what criteria are used.  If one goes by what the tickets read and what the gate agents and flight attendants announced, the flight is Delta Flight 5191 (or if you want to be real technical, something very similar to "Delta Flight 5191 operated by Comair for Delta Connection."  However, if one goes by how the pilots and air traffic controllers referred to the flight, then it is Comair Flight 191 (their actual words would have been "Comair 191."  Thus far the news media has called it Comair Flight 5191, probably for two reasons:  One, the flight was called 5191 everywhere that wasn't "behind the scenes", and two, Delta wants to make it clear that the flight wasn't operated by Delta, but was instead operated by Comair.  Therefore one winds up with Comair Flight 5191, which works, but isn't really quite accurate.  Alex  07:35