glendalegoon, it is hard to argue that the tower controller did anything wrong in the LEX CRJ takeoff crash. It was early AM, the Comair flight was the only plane moving on the ground or in the air, and it was cleared to take off on the airport's runway used by air carriers and as well as the airport's only lighted runway. It is hard to even guess what thoughts the crew had as they accelerated down an unlit runway and even failed to notice that they passed a long lighted runway early in takeoff roll.
Thankfully, the WN crew realized something was amiss early enough after touchdown to us enough braking and reverse to stop on the available runway. We could have easily had a duplication of the AI Express accident in 2010 where a 737 ran off the cliff at the end of a tabletop airport.
BBC News - India plane crash in Mangalore leaves nearly 160 dead