LEXINGTON, Ky.-
Doctors have amputated the left leg of a co-pilot whose plane crashed on takeoff after it turned onto the wrong runway, and he does not remember the accident that killed 49 people, his family said Monday.
James Polehinke, the lone survivor of the Aug. 27 crash at the Blue Grass Airport, faces several additional surgeries to repair fractures, one involving his spinal cord, the family said.
Polehinke “does not remember anything,” the family said in a statement. He is asking about his family and dogs and wants to go home.
“He is more wakeful at times and more communicative, but is still not completely lucid and currently has no recollection of the accident,” the statement said.
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