Death toll in UPS plane crash increases to 13
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The number of fatalities may increase after a UPS plane crashed Tuesday near the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said.
The search for victims entered its third day Thursday after a UPS cargo plane crashed and burst into flames near
Just hours before a plane crash at a Louisville airport that has now left a dozen dead and nearly 20 injured, a UPS pilot from Northwest Arkansas had flown in.
LOCATION AND SCALEThe Worldport facility in Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport spans about 5.2 million square feet, or roughly 90 football fields and serves as the global air logistics nerve center for UPS. Handles around 2 million packages per day. The automated sorting system can process up to 420,000 packages/letters per hour.
A UPS cargo flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 ET after it took off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Kentucky, en route to Honolulu, Secretary of the US Department of Transportation Sean Duffy said. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
The MD-11 that exploded spent much of September and October at ST Engineering at San Antonio International Airport. The company maintains the carrier's fleet.
The crash near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport marked the deadliest accident in UPS Airlines history.