Our daughter just sent us a picture taken from her back yard. Yikes. She closed up the house at once in case of toxic particles.
Hearing it’s a UPS cargo.
Have a relative who retired as a fighter pilot and flew for UPS.
PRAYERS! ๐
"Stop being mean to me, I need a safe space now" (500 hour DEI hire pilot)
Plane Crashes in Louisville, Kentucky - LIVE Breaking News Coverage
Agenda-Free TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l18vrbMT8Fk
Grade Lane and Fern Valley Road.
MD11 plane per local tv. Unconfirmed it may have hit fuel storage tanks near the airport.
With a big FWIW...
https://x.com/BNONews/status/1985845907191889930
Video seems to show cargo plane on fire before crash.
Now wait! Other threads having this happen in Tijuana. Which is it?!?!?!?!?!?
UPS Confirmed it was a MD-11 with 3 crew
https://about.ups.com/us/en/newsroom/statements/ups-statement-on-aircraft-accident.html
https://www.kentuckytoday.com/news/ups-cargo-plane-with-3-aboard-explodes-on-takeoff-at-louisville-airport-igniting-huge-fire/article_e312a02b-1cd8-43d5-9def-9ee2aafe6f72.html
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Another video https://twitter.com/i/status/1985909329342382511
“Flight records suggest the UPS MD-11 that crashed underwent maintenance while it was on the ground in San Antonio for more than a month until mid-October. It is not clear what work was done.”