Thursday, November 06, 2025

Did you hear of the UPS cargo plane in Louisville Kentucky, at UPS HQ "Worldport" , that crashed shortly after takeoff, as a wing caught on fire during take off, that caused an engine to fall off, and the plane to drop the 40 feet or so back to earth into the businesses under it, crashing into businesses (loaded with fuel) such as Kentucky Petroleum Recycling and a auto salvage business



The plane gained enough altitude to clear the fence at the end of the runway before crashing just outside Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport

Airport security video “shows the left engine detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll,”

Jeff Guzzetti, a former federal crash investigator, said  “It could have been the engine partially coming off and ripping out fuel lines. Or it could have been a fuel leak igniting and then burning the engine off. It’s just too soon to tell,” 

He said the crash bears a lot of similarities to one in 1979 when the left engine fell off an American Airlines jet as it was departing Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, killing 273 people.

Guzzetti said this UPS plane and the American plane were equipped with the same General Electric engines and both planes underwent heavy maintenance in the month before they crashed.

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