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Critics dispute air taxi company claims that their services could ease congestion as passengers will still have to take a car to and from the takeoff and landing points.

Video footage of the plane’s takeoff showed the General Electric engine aflame before the jet crashed in an industrial area just beyond the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport.

“Ready for takeoff,” he called to the ground.

The first thing he saw was that departures to LaGuardia were delayed due to air-traffic-control staffing issues—and her 6:30 p.m. flight had been assigned a takeoff slot of 12:21 a.m.

Hard objects pose a threat even at relatively low takeoff or landing speeds of above 100 miles an hour.