At least 7 dead in UPS plane crash in Kentucky
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The power had just gone off and the ground was shaking at Grade A Auto Parts when the owner received a panicked video call from his chief financial officer. On his screen, CEO Sean Garber watched a “huge fireball” engulf the Louisville,
UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, officials said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter plane was headed to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, when the plane's left engine detached after a "large plume of fire" erupted from the plane's left wing, according to the NTSB.
Robert Sanders left his home two minutes before it was destroyed in the UPS plane crash in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 4. He said three of his friends died.
The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will lead the investigation into the incident.
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured after a UPS plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville International Airport on Tuesday.
The videos provide investigators and the public with many different angles of the plane going down Tuesday in an area dotted with scrap yards and UPS facilities. No one expects to find survivors. The plane had been cleared for takeoff from UPS Worldport,