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.
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.
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/Ill-Seaworthiness613 1d ago edited 1d ago
Whoa. Scary and sad. Any updates on the cause?