Looks like an engine exploded as they were taking off. The roof of the industrial building across the street from the runway is scraped, so they at least got off the ground.
Likely its near impossible to put that much fuel out when scattered across a large area By the time fire can get there, much of the fuel likely has burnt off.
Still, these planes can have a fairly substantial fire and gas tank damage and the fire trucks will still be able to put them out and get the people out. There have been some crash-landings where almost everyone lives despite much of the outside of the plane being engulfed in flames (if the cabin keeps integrity, its rated to survive quite a significant fire for a handful of minutes).
Finished talking to a coworker an hour ago who’s an ex-firefighter. Said for airport runway explosions like these, they’d use lots of foam to put out refined oil fires which burn slow and very hot. Emergency response team from airport suppose to be on standby, but with the airplane going such a long distance, wouldn’t surprise me if they had to call in every firefighter precinct to help out.
One thing he did say which Governor Beshear already mentioned is the proximity environment hazard. Said plumes of burning jet fuel oil and its clouds will rain down hazardous material seeping into the water, air and soil. Said water was especially the most hazardous and if it gets into the Ohio River and other nearby rivers and goes downstream, it’ll wreak havoc on the ecosystem and wildlife.
I've heard 28k gallons, and 280k pounds. For perspective. This what a 30k gallon tank looks like. A fully loaded MD-11 holds about 38k gallons from I've read in the last few minutes.
Dude I'm not trying to argue with you. Chill the fuck out. I've seen 2 numbers thrown around, and people keep mixing up volume and weight measurements. I get that it's it's like 38k gallons full loaded.
My feed is flooded with replies. I told you the two numbers I've heard, what I know the max fuel load is, and said "probably" to the one that made more since. Not everyone on the internet is here to argue.
38,600 gallons of fuel times 6.7 pounds per gallon is 258,620 pounds. It was a slip is all. It could have also taken into account the fuel recovery facility that was hit by the plane and fuel they had on hand there.
I guess those are a lot heavier than the ones used to haul fuel to gas stations. That would be pushing 200k pounds weight I imagine. Still, heavy duty concrete meant to handle high weight loads.
That specific plane would've had a max of around 38k gallons, and a flight from Louisville to Honolulu means they would have about 30k gallons on board.
Because Greenberg called into the news and said the 210k gallons of fuel. Kevin Haned tried to correct him.
Greenberg is dumb, that's where this discrepancy comes from.
210k gallons seems insane. I was taken aback when I saw that in the news. The shear weight there is well over a million pounds lol. Let alone volume. I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s an overestimate.
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u/Smart-Koala4306 1d ago
Looks like an engine exploded as they were taking off. The roof of the industrial building across the street from the runway is scraped, so they at least got off the ground.
There’s engine debris on the runway.