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  1. 5th November 2025, 11:12 AM #1
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    A UPS plane has crashed on take off in Louisville KY.

    IIRC the Kentucky governor said it was headed to Hawaii and carrying over a million litres of fuel, I didn't know they could carry so much. Unfortunately they suspect the three crew have been killed and at least two people are missing from an auto parts store, 11 people have been injured from the store and an adjacent oil recycling plant.
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    Looking at various news sources the plane was held back for a couple of hours for work/verification on #1. It then left #1 at the side of the runway during the takeoff roll and given the video it might appear bits of #1 got ingested into #2 which surged and failed. Apparently they were past decision point when the failure(s) occurred so they attempted to take off.

    Pretty sad, but the DC-10/MD-11 didn't/doesn't have a great track record. My uncle in California was part of the team that designed the wing for the DC-10 and he point-blank refused to fly on them.
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    I don't think UPS are/were about to knock anyone down the safety leader board.
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    UPS MD11 crashed near the Louisville airport - Page 3 - PPRuNe Forums

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    Quote Originally Posted by RANDLOVER View Post
    IIRC the Kentucky governor said it was headed to Hawaii and carrying over a million litres of fuel, I didn't know they could carry so much. Unfortunately they suspect the three crew have been killed and at least two people are missing from an auto parts store, 11 people have been injured from the store and an adjacent oil recycling plant.
    It didn't have that much fuel I can assure you .. max fuel capacity of a md11 is 146000 litres. It looked a lot like a million litres going up though.
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