Video footage exhibits heavy smoke within the sky close to Louisville Muhammad Ali Worldwide Airport (SDF) in Louisville, Kentucky, after a airplane crash Tuesday. (Credit score: @augiewoo through X)
UPS Airways has grounded a complete fleet of its cargo jets indefinitely, warning of months-long disruption throughout peak vacation season.
The airline doesn’t count on its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11s, which was the kind of airplane concerned in a lethal crash in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov. 4 to return to service for a number of months, in keeping with the Related Press.
The UPS cargo airplane’s engine fell off and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali Worldwide Airport. The Honolulu-bound flight crashed at round 5:15 p.m., hitting a close-by industrial space and killing 14 folks, together with the three crew members and 11 folks on the bottom.
Black field knowledge signifies the airplane solely reached about 30 toes above floor degree previous to the crash, and newly launched photographs from the Nationwide Transportation Security Board present a fireplace igniting on the left engine.
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Fireplace and smoke mark the place a UPS cargo airplane crashed close to Louisville Muhammad Ali Worldwide Airport on November 04, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. The totally fueled airplane crashed shortly after takeoff. (Stephen Cohen/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
UPS briefly grounded the fleet instantly following the crash, and started working to fulfill Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) tips earlier than returning to service.
AP reported that the method was initially anticipated to take weeks, however will now prolong a number of months, in keeping with a memo from UPS Airways president Invoice Moore.
“Relating to the MD-11 fleet, Boeing’s ongoing analysis exhibits that inspections and potential repairs shall be extra intensive than initially anticipated,” Moore wrote within the memo.
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UPS briefly grounded a fleet of cargo planes instantly following a crash on Nov. 4, which killed 14 folks. (Credit score: X / @WT_Mason)
On Nov. 7, UPS introduced it had grounded its MD-11 fleet “out of an abundance of warning and within the curiosity of security.”
The planes account for roughly 9% of the airline’s fleet.
“Contingency plans are in place to make sure we will proceed to ship the dependable service our clients all over the world rely on,” UPS mentioned within the assertion earlier this month.
Instantly following the crash, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive to homeowners and operators of the Boeing Firm Mannequin MD-11 and MD-11F airplanes after it decided the unsafe situation was more likely to exist in different merchandise.
FedEx mentioned after the crash that it was additionally grounding its MD-11s.
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The Nov. 4 crash occurred close to the UPS Worldport on the Louisville Airport. (Google Maps)
Fox Enterprise has reached out to UPS for remark.
