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Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky is currently closed to arriving and departing flights, following the crash of (UPS2976), a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 being operated as a cargo plane by UPS Airlines that had just taken-off from the UPS Worldport in Louisville. A massive fire is currently burning near the airport — engulfing several nearby buildings — with a shelter-in-place order having been issued for a five-mile radius around Muhammad Ali.

Live cam

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/live_breaking/live-plane-crashes-near-louisville-airport/417-50bfc28f-5667-422b-bc2a-14e0be1b322d

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Authorities are reporting that at least 25,000 gallons of jet fuel was onboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 at the time of the crash in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

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Fuel fire on take off? Wing Fuel bladder rupture and ignite from engine thrust? 

Those on the ground videos look like a massive spread of fuel igniting all at once. 

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14 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

Fuel fire on take off? Wing Fuel bladder rupture and ignite from engine thrust? 

Those on the ground videos look like a massive spread of fuel igniting all at once. 

The airplane should still be able to fly on the two remaining engines, so whatever happened disabled that ability. Absolutely tragic.  We train for this all the time so I’m sure they were busy planning to get airborne and come back around to land .  May have only gotten an engine fire indication, not knowing how massive it really was.

2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I’ve told some people in person that it might take a plane crash to reopen government. Tracking the fallout from this. 

i’m fairly confident you’re wrong. If there are 100 factors that led to this tragedy, I’m sure ATC shortage is 101. That said I don’t doubt this will be politicized to the extreme.

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Just now, HiggyBaby said:

The airplane should still be able to fly on the two remaining engines, so whatever happened disabled that ability. Absolutely tragic.  We train for this all the time so I’m sure they were busy planning to get airborne and come back around to land .  May have only gotten an engine fire indication, not knowing how massive it really was.

i’m fairly confident you’re wrong. If there are 100 factors that led to this tragedy, I’m sure ATC shortage is 101. That said I don’t doubt this will be politicized to the extreme.

Yeah, that was a "this plane is fucked up beyond all help" problem, not an ATC problem.

WTF causes that, and it had to have been bad and fast for it not to have been able to get airborne.

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To clarify— I don’t think it’s an ATC problem. The fallout will be general jitters, demands to do crazy things like pay the NTSB that responds, etc. It’s a little jolt of “the government does things you need.” 

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38 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I’ve told some people in person that it might take a plane crash to reopen government. Tracking the fallout from this. 

Huh? This was obviously a maintenance issue. 

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1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Huh? This was obviously a maintenance issue. 

you don't know that.  I agree that it wasn't ATC, but you don't know the cause.  Fuck, maybe it was a bomb. 

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3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

you don't know that.  I agree that it wasn't ATC, but you don't know the cause.  Fuck, maybe it was a bomb. 

What do you want to do, bet on it? 

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These things usually don't happen without someone or multiple someones fucking something up. ATC might not be directly responsible, but it's a fair bet that the added stress on air infrastructure more likely than not played a role.

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5 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

These things usually don't happen without someone or multiple someones fucking something up. ATC might not be directly responsible, but it's a fair bet that the added stress on air infrastructure more likely than not played a role.

That's fair. 

It's also Kentucky.

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2 minutes ago, TexPx said:

Mentioned before my sis-in-law is a Captain for UPS. She was at the facility and just finished annual simulator training when it happened. They could see the fireball from their window. There may have been 4 jump seaters along with the crew.

Provide updates if you get any. This seems really fucked up. 

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1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

 

Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky is currently closed to arriving and departing flights, following the crash of (UPS2976), a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 being operated as a cargo plane by UPS Airlines that had just taken-off from the UPS Worldport in Louisville. A massive fire is currently burning near the airport — engulfing several nearby buildings — with a shelter-in-place order having been issued for a five-mile radius around Muhammad Ali.

Live cam

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/live_breaking/live-plane-crashes-near-louisville-airport/417-50bfc28f-5667-422b-bc2a-14e0be1b322d

 

 

I use to live on a street that had 5 or 6 UPS pilots on it. Have they announced the name of the pilot, yet?

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14 minutes ago, immamac said:

That shouldn't be possible without sabotage. UPS either not doing proper checks or something was purposefully done here, right? 

If we’re honest with each other it’s all just conjecture at this point but just google AA 191, it’s not unprecedented.

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1 hour ago, HiggyBaby said:

The airplane should still be able to fly on the two remaining engines, so whatever happened disabled that ability. Absolutely tragic.  We train for this all the time so I’m sure they were busy planning to get airborne and come back around to land .  May have only gotten an engine fire indication, not knowing how massive it really was.

i’m fairly confident you’re wrong. If there are 100 factors that led to this tragedy, I’m sure ATC shortage is 101. That said I don’t doubt this will be politicized to the extreme.

Perhaps the engine departure and resulting fire destroyed the leading edge devices, or enough of them anyway, to preclude the wing generating enough lift. Kinda like, only kinda, the AA DC-10 in Chicago. 

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Provide updates if you get any. This seems really fucked up. 

Last I heard from her they weren’t sure which of her colleagues were on the flight. Her hubby flys for SWA and there are incredibly thick- skinned when this kind of shit happens.
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

2h maintenance delay and the fn engine falls off on takeoff. fuck. some people not gonna sleep right for a long time. 

Sus.  What was on that plane.

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the engine will shear if the damage is bad enough but there’s this too 
 
 
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WTF? At the end of the 2 hours of maintenance, did the “check to make sure you reattached the engine” box not get checked?
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:


WTF? At the end of the 2 hours of maintenance, did the “check to make sure you reattached the engine” box not get checked?

Un contained failure of the fan section possibly produce enough imbalance to torque the thing off?

 

You can see that the fan is not attached to the engine core laying on the airport.  

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So let me see if this sounds right/plausible.

#1 has an uncontained fan failure, sheers off and debris shreds the other engine on the wing. While that engine is failing the hole from #1 is spraying jet fuel all over the tarmac and everything else.

Plane impacts the plant at the end of the runway and flash fire ignites all the fuel trail and we get the apocalypse now napalm fire ball from the clip up top?

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So let me see if this sounds right/plausible.
#1 has an uncontained fan failure, sheers off and debris shreds the other engine on the wing. While that engine is failing the hole from #1 is spraying jet fuel all over the tarmac and everything else.
Plane impacts the plant at the end of the runway and flash fire ignites all the fuel trail and we get the apocalypse now napalm fire ball from the clip up top?

We'll know soon enough. An 18 inch fairing fell off a Continental DC-10 and ended the Concorde program and supersonic travel.
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A good friend of mine is an international UPS pilot. It seems like a pretty awesome job. You hear all the cool stories and kind of forget there’s this danger involved. I should get some intel at a band competition tomorrow. 

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