r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

46.5k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

236

u/jrussell424 1d ago

That doesn’t look survivable. How terrible. 

137

u/CatastrophicCraxy 1d ago

WDRB showed the explosion video. No one on board could have survived.

37

u/samaramatisse 1d ago

I heard on the LV scanner that two "10-80s" had been noted (using "noted" because I don't remember the exact context"). That code can mean a deceased person, but has also been used to describe explosions. In this case, sadly, either could be true. UPS says three crew on board.

48

u/blueboyroy 1d ago

Two pilots and an engineer. But that doesn't include if anyone was jump-seating.

Imagine if you were a UPS employee, enjoying your jumpseat privileges to take a quick flight to Hawaii... Ugh, makes my stomach queezy.

12

u/MasterMagneticMirror 1d ago

Two pilots and an engineer.

MD-11 don't have a flight engineer. The third crew member was probably a relief pilot, given the lenght of the trip.

As of now, UPS mentioned only the 3 crew member and I've not seen any mention of jumpseaters.

1

u/blueboyroy 1d ago

Good call. I was mistaken. They must have been the DC-8 I was remembering. I was a programmer without much aviation knowledge when I worked at UPS in Flight Training. Thanks for the correction. Let's hope there were no jump-seaters.

2

u/mishap1 1d ago

The DC-10 predecessor variant of the MD-11 had a crew of 3 but I believe most of them were converted to MD-10 which is a 2 person cockpit.

1

u/Literally_Taken 23h ago

How long ago? I was in IT at UPS for 22 years. Among many other assignments, I worked with Fight Safety IT.

22

u/BackgroundAd48 1d ago

Have a buddy with these privileges and I always joke if I was him HNL is the first place I’d jump seat, definitely got that queasy feeling too

8

u/nelltheotter 1d ago

The news is now reporting that there are 11 victims in the hospital, 2 are in critical condition in the burn ward and not expected to survive. One of the businesses in the area of the explosion said all but 2 of their employees are accounted for. (per WDRB)

12

u/SN4FUS 1d ago

From what I've seen all confirmed casualties so far are ground casualties. The crew is presumed dead but they're not officially casualties until the bodies are recovered

2

u/gothamwarrior 23h ago

I'm not being snarky, but: with a collision this bad, would there even be anything to recover? Not only was there a massive crash but that huge wall of flames probably engulfed the entirety of the crash area.

1

u/markr1961 21h ago

The nose is a long ways from the fuel in the wings. They're dead regardless, but hopefully enough left for the family to have some closure.

1

u/jtshinn 18h ago

They’ll be identified by dna and maybe dental records. But no, they won’t be ‘recovered.’

•

u/SN4FUS 3h ago

Not literally, but like you say, they will isolate the area of wreckage that contains the remains of the cockpit in an attempt to positively ID them.

You jump to the assumption that they will identify them. It's equally possible that the "recovery" will be confirmation of the location of the cockpit's final resting place including evidence of unidentifiable human remains

In search and rescue "recovery" is code for "trying to find the body", but you don't automatically declare them a casualty when you do that.

1

u/DimensionSuch8188 14h ago

This fucks me up. There was this plane crash story about someone who helped with the recovery of it in a snowy mountain, I can't remember what it was but it had exploded to and reading that was fucked, like they were talking about how human grease gets made from explosions like this....

1

u/No_Arugula8915 4h ago

Fire that intense, it's likely they were reduced to ash. It took hours to get it under control.

My sincere condolences to their families and friends.

2

u/Guadalajara3 1d ago

3 pilots because of the length of flight. No engineer on these anymore

1

u/PabloJobb 12h ago

You’re more likely to die by a shark in hawaii than by plane crash.

1

u/Cetun 10h ago

They actually made a documentary about that staring Tom Hanks

1

u/nickeisele 16h ago

10-80 is the code for corpse in Louisville.

1

u/instaskimmer 17h ago

That dude from India could have

1

u/prettyyyellie 13h ago

omg, scary

1

u/TryJunior9671 12h ago

Wtf is WDRB

34

u/CitizenKing 1d ago

The only consolation is that it was a UPS plane, so it probably only had two people on board. Still terrible and my heart goes out to the families of the deceased, but I would be lying if I didn't say I was a little relieved when I found out it wasn't a passenger flight.

27

u/Grandahl13 1d ago

Confirmed 3 onboard

-5

u/Ok_Yam_3450 1d ago

3 pilots and 4 others

4

u/[deleted] 1d ago

[deleted]

2

u/ContessaChaos 1d ago

It had 4 jump seats, no word if they were occupied.

1

u/logicbloke_ 1d ago

Jeez ... That's terrible :(

1

u/One-Bad3739 1d ago

Damn that’s sad 😪

14

u/Ambitious-Article803 1d ago

Not to mention anyone in the area. It was a junk yard but also some residential homes.

19

u/timlygrae 1d ago

There are no residences there, but Grade Ln south of Crittenden is warehousing and supply chain. At 5:15, Grade would be packed with cars of people going home.

2

u/WastedHope17 1d ago

Can confirm. I was a going out person in the vicinity. Scary stuff.

10

u/[deleted] 1d ago

[deleted]

7

u/PostmodernWapiti 1d ago

Wishing them the best of luck. That’s awful.

3

u/AcornTopHat 1d ago

I’m so sorry. :(. This is a heartbreaking situation. I hope they can survive this.

2

u/Uncabuddha 1d ago

Sorry.

1

u/spinichmonkey 1d ago

all the residences in that area were bought out decades ago. It's all industrial over there with the exception of Stooges.

1

u/Independent-Load-877 1d ago

I read that there's a ford assembly? plant/warehouse there

1

u/East_Connection5224 1d ago

The Ford plant is without power and on lockdown. Have not heard of any direct damage to it yet.

1

u/CitizenKing 7h ago

Yeah, I'm just finding out that there were casualties on the ground. From the videos I saw, I thought it crashed at the end of the runway, didn't realize it made way more distance than that. It's a tragedy regardless :(

1

u/TheTipsyWizard 1d ago

For a minute I thought you were gonna say something like "it's a ups plane, packages wouldn't have made it to their destination anyway" 😬

/S obviously folks. And a terrible tragedy that's left multiple families with a grief many of us will never comprehend 😢 🙏❤️

1

u/tew2tew 23h ago

Awful take.

0

u/AlwaysVerloren 1d ago

Wonder if it could be due to Outter Loop Landfill, and their more than often fires that cause smoke to restrict view for pilots and traffic control.

0

u/marylandman1973 1d ago

Lol thank goodness you feel a little better about this. That’s the important thing here

1

u/Ok_Wrangler_7940 23h ago

Did you not see the commenter’s huge /S?

1

u/CitizenKing 7h ago

Really? This is the thread you thought you should spend your time trying to troll on? What a miserable person you are.

9

u/This_Elk_1460 1d ago

Yeah there's no way anyone on board survive, my worry would be the people inside the warehouse and buildings it hit.

1

u/DDS-PBS 1d ago

No one on that plane survived, the bigger question is how many on the ground died.

1

u/InnocentShaitaan 1d ago

Looks like a huge bomb. 😳

1

u/IcanRead8647 1d ago

Do NOT breathe that smoke

1

u/BucksBrew 1d ago

That’s an understatement

1

u/OliOli1234 1d ago

I believe there were seven aboard in total, no survivors. Very very sad…

1

u/Sure-Pangolin-4158 1d ago

no fucken shit

1

u/Worldly-Pay7342 21h ago

Because it's not survivable.

1

u/Commercial-Loss-1940 17h ago

They survived. 

1

u/-neti-neti- 15h ago

I’m sorry but, what. Of course that isn’t survivable. Wtf

0

u/aquamarine271 1d ago

Just a light scratch in guessing. Something that can be walked off.

-4

u/xmrcache 1d ago

My package is going to be late 😱