HEBRON - Fear and apprehension sat alongside some travelers at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Friday, the day after 29 people died in a Comair plane crash.
''It's frightening,'' said Nina Asachi of Cincinnati, as she cradled her 5-month-old son in her arms, before her flight out of Cincinnati to Tampa, Fla., through Delta Air Lines.
''But I can't live in fear.''
When she heard of the deaths on the Comair flight, Ms. Asachi, who works for Procter & Gamble, said her first thought ''was to cancel my flight and stay home.''
''When you have to do it for business,'' she said, ''you have no choice.''
The morning traffic through the terminals and ticket booths at the Cincinnati airport continued to flow Friday. Many who were coming or going said they were shaken by the accident, but would continue to fly.
''I usually sort of dismiss it. But I thought about it this morning,'' said Jonathan Lapps, 38, of Baltimore, who had flown in Friday morning from Detroit on Northwest Airlines.
Mr. Lapps said he was concerned for two people he knew were flying from Detroit last night to Cincinnati, because their Northwest flight was delayed and they thought about taking a Comair flight, but did not.
What also brought Thursday's crash close to home for Mr. Lapps, is that he has been on the Comair commuter flight from Cincinnati to Detroit in the past.
He is relocating to the Tristate for his job with a pharmaceutical company.
''I'm going to have to take this commuter'' from Cincinnati to Detroit, he said.
For some people, the plane crash did not shake their will to fly.
''It doesn't bother me at all,'' said Ian Crookston, 36, of Toronto, of the news of the crash.
''There's so many flights and so few of them crash,'' said Mr. Crookston, who was heading home on a Comair flight after a business trip to Ohio.
''Your chances are more likely to be hit by lightning, than have a problem with an airplane crash,'' he said.
Alex Handler, 21, of Cincinnati, said he was already worried about flying before the crash.
''It doesn't really help to hear about a plane crash and have to fly out the next day,'' said Mr. Handler, who was on vacation from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
''I don't really have any apprehension,'' said David Fluker, 33, of Blue Ash, athletic trainer and administrator for Xavier University basketball.
Although he felt safe flying Friday, ''My wife had some apprehension,'' said Mr. Fluker, who was heading to New York on Delta Air Lines.
But he said he could not understand how airline technology and skilled professionals could repeatedly fail to ensure safety. ''Why do these types of things continue to happen? That's my question,'' he said.
Whether they are pilots, baggage handlers or food service workers, people form a bond when they work at airports, said Janice Holbrook, office manager for the airport's food services company.
Ms. Holbrook said her friends who work with Comair were in shock over the crash.
The only way they will recover, she said, is ''over time.''
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FIRST-DAY COVERAGE Jan. 10, 1997
