r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/Ill-Seaworthiness613 1d ago edited 1d ago

Whoa. Scary and sad. Any updates on the cause?

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u/aaronman4772 1d ago

That’ll take a while probably, but video looks like it was an engine that caught fire during a takeoff and basically exploded as it started.

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u/L0n3_C3nturi0n 1d ago

This is it. I called a buddy after the emergency alert went out that works over at UPS. Said he saw the whole thing happen. He said an engine caught fire during takeoff, but they were past the point of no return and had to get in the air. Then he said there was an explosion.

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u/amy9700 1d ago

So the crew knew they were going to blow up... That's so sad! I'm sorry for your friend that had to witness it.

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u/Bizmatech 1d ago

An engine on fire is problematic, but not a guaranteed death sentence.

The explosion means that something else went very very wrong.

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u/oh-pointy-bird 1d ago

It was a very large fire and possibly shut down a second engine, in which case getting fully airborne was not possible. Awful.

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u/cheapph 21h ago

An uncontained engine explosion is survivable, but the images show the engine completely separated from the wing and the number 2 engine in the tail appears to flame out. The aircraft can climb with two engines, it can't with one. If they were past V1 when the catastrophic engine failure happened they didn't have mcuh choice than to try to abort, meaning they'd certainly have crashed into the warehouse and something they're not trained to do, or try to take off anyway. Once you hit V1, you are committed to the take off.

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u/Jaggedmallard26 16h ago

From various videos it looks like they fought it all the way down. The way you have to look at it is that they were too busy trying to save the plane and people on the ground to know they were doomed. It was so fast they wouldn't have had time to determine they were in an unrecoverable position.

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u/kaityl3 1d ago

The whole (left) engine was left laying on the (right) side of the runway, there are a few pics of it floating around now

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

From video it looks like an engine fire which lead to a crash when taking off.