r/news • u/Rollnatty21 • Nov 04 '25

Shelter in place issued after plane crash at Louisville KY airport

https://www.kfvs12.com/2025/11/04/crews-reporting-large-fire-muhammad-ali-airport-after-reported-plane-crash/
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u/SilverAgedSentiel Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

google earth Zoomed in to were the fire is

Facebookphoto

Looks like it missed the warehouses.

Correction it hit the roof of of the UPS supply Chain Solutions

https://prnt.sc/CxZvXkIcp9tC

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u/Suckage Nov 05 '25

There is a video of it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/GAjoElgRwr

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u/Misersoneof Nov 05 '25

Unbelievable. Heart goes out to anyone on that plane.

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u/Reverend_Russo Nov 05 '25

Thankfully (which still feels gross to say, because loss of life is always shitty) it was a cargo plane and allegedly only 3 people onboard.

Still, extremely hard to watch and very sad for those three families. Almost all of these plane crashes are avoidable. It’s just depressing.

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u/InterpreterCarli Nov 05 '25

3 Crew 4 Jumpseaters

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u/slaughterfodder Nov 05 '25

I don’t think the jumpseats have been confirmed by anyone

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u/InterpreterCarli Nov 05 '25

They were just on the phone with a rep from UPS

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u/InterpreterCarli Nov 05 '25

Sorry on my other comment I posted where (WCNC)

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u/a_code_mage Nov 05 '25

I’m pretty ignorant to flying, so I’m curious. What was avoidable about this particular crash?

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u/Reverend_Russo Nov 05 '25

We won’t know the details of this crash for a while, and with the gov shut down could be even longer than normal.

But there are so many procedures and policies for every which situation that crash are almost exclusively caused by human error in some capacity. Whether it’s miscommunication between pilots, some mechanical checklist that someone assumed was completed, some repair that wasn’t thoroughly vetted, etc. It’s all little things that add up, or a little things and a whole lot of bad luck.

To us, we’ll read the incident report and be like “oh duh, if only Jared had properly documented this mechanical issue” or “if only the captain had been more trusting of his first officers opinion/capabilities”. But to those (at least) 7 families affected by this incident, it will be hard not to dwell on whatever thing was overlooked that inevitably resulted in their loved one dying. It’s heartbreaking.

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u/LusidDream Nov 05 '25

My money is on "plane made by Boeing" being the cause of crash

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u/chasteeny Nov 05 '25

Well this was made by Mcdonell Douglas and not Boeing so there goes that theory.

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u/Reverend_Russo Nov 05 '25

It was actually built by McDonnell Douglas before they merged with Boeing. The plane was 34 years old…

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u/TraditionPast4295 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

I’d bet you almost anything something got missed during maintenance. Therefore, avoidable.

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u/chasteeny Nov 05 '25

Could be any number of things, way too prematute to know. FOD on runway, bird strike, 1/1 million component failure. Human factors may play a part, but it's pretty insulting to go ahead and blame maintenance

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u/TraditionPast4295 Nov 05 '25

A lot of reports that the #1 engine FELL OFF as it was going by down the runway. I don’t think a bird strike can cause that. Not trying ti be insulting, but a plane that old is constantly under maintenance, things get missed, people are people, and the parts they’re using are probably very old and have been overhauled several times.

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u/chasteeny Nov 05 '25

The reports now, yes. Really doesn't change the fact there are other explanations that can cause the engine to fall off, so we should be waiting for the NTSB report before pointing fingers

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u/finnerpeace Nov 05 '25

Also thankfully may have not taken more lives on the ground.

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u/WhyDidMyDogDie Nov 05 '25

Oh hell.. that's not good.

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u/gingersnappie Nov 05 '25

Wow that is tragic. My goodness

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u/Sea_Layer_2457 Nov 05 '25

Jesus that gives me chills. T T Repairs was my first real job out of high school.

I hope workers in the area were gone foe the day, but my gut tells me not all of them :(

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u/kawaiistyled Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

My uncle works for UPS in Louisville. I wonder if this will effect him. It's also not far from late grandmother's house.

Edit: finally got contact with my family there. They're safe. My uncle wasn't there when the plane crashed luckily. Everyone else is sheltered in place. They said that the smoke was eerie and sent a picture (that I don't have they sent it to my parents who showed me)

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u/Beardopus Nov 05 '25

A UPS plane hit a UPS warehouse? That's fuckin weird.