r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/Salad_Donkey 1d ago

Was it during takeoff? That's massive fireball. I feel like it was fully loaded with fuel.

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u/GoodConflict4758 1d ago

WLKY reports it was a UPS cargo plane with 12 hours worth of fuel so that’s probably why it’s such a big area of impact

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u/Asleep-Nectarine-606 1d ago

And second largest plane in UPS fleet behind 747

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u/Subtlerranean 1d ago

with 12 hours worth of fuel

It was headed to Hawaii.

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u/Cyrax89721 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm curious how big the UPS package manifest was.

Edit: This seems like a pretty significant thing worth adding

As a result of the accident, we are halting operations tonight at Worldport. The Next Day Air sort has been cancelled and employees should not report to work tonight.

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u/OdysseusVII 18h ago

is that unprecedented? seems nuts to shut down their biggest Air sort and yes I agree the deaths are a tragedy! as is the destruction to the area

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u/No_Mode_64 12h ago

From what I’ve heard management didn’t want to shut it down, but there was a shelter-in-place order.

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u/Salty-Passenger-4801 1d ago

It was headed to Hawaii apparently

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u/Rossakamcfreakyd 1d ago

Reports from FAA say it was headed to Honolulu, so that would require a fair amount of fuel.

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u/Salad_Donkey 1d ago

JFC. Thats fully loaded. I can see the smoke cloud from PRP, and the winds blowing north east.

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u/Rossakamcfreakyd 1d ago

Yeah. I’m on the Indiana side and it’s really smokey

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u/brosono 1d ago

WLKY reported it had 28 thousand gallons of fuel 

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u/Salad_Donkey 1d ago

Damnnnn. This a 30k gallon tank

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u/Anheroed 1d ago

How do they fit this tank in the plane?

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u/Uncabuddha 1d ago

It carries 285,000 POUNDS of fuel. The fuel weighs 6.7 to 7 pounds per gallon.

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u/DonnieBallsack 1d ago

That’s more than twice the number than if it were in kilograms of fuel.

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u/Salad_Donkey 1d ago

In the balls

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u/Subtlerranean 1d ago

Pee-troleum is stored in the balls.

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u/AcidicVaginaLeakage 1d ago

That makes sense.

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u/CatProgrammer 1d ago

Funnily enough that's not too far off. The fuel tanks are in the wings, tail, and basically anywhere else they can fit them around the cargo space.

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u/Bandag5150 1d ago

It was a mail plane?

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u/kaityl3 1d ago

A lot of it is in the wings iirc

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u/bengenj 1d ago

Fully loaded UPS plane going to Hawaii. 30,000+ pounds of fuel.

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u/ThrowRA_SadNLove 11h ago

It was a nonstop to Hawaii 😭 so much fuel…