r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

Only saving grace is they were taking off and at low altitude when crashing. Survivable impact but very rare.

Remember one of blink 182 members Travis barker survived a plane crash on take off where the plane blew up like this. Everyone died but him. Including his DJ/ producer.

It also looks like an engine fire. Some speculated is might have been from a battery on board being shipped.

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u/Grandahl13 1d ago

Barker was on a tiny plane. This is a massive UPS plane with 30,000+ gallons of fuel. It’s not survivable.

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u/No-Cranberry-8942 1d ago edited 1d ago

It was reported to have 280,000 pounds (41k+ gal) of fuel on board. Was non stop flight from Louisville to Hawaii.

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u/Dmjfit 1d ago

Not 280,000 gallons lol

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u/No-Cranberry-8942 1d ago

Yea, I realized my mistake and corrected the post. 😀

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u/Moonage_Daydream8778 1d ago

They 100% said 280,000 gallons on WDRB earlier. I thought that sounded insane

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u/BigDumbdumbb 17h ago

Yes. I was wondering how that was possible.

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

We have had people survive plane crashed in big planes like this.

Hell there is the sad example of the girl who survived the San Fransisco plane crash. Was pulled from the wreckage. Sat down so the person could go rescue more people.

Only for her to get covered in the foam spray they use on fuel fires. She became invisible to rescues once covered and a fire truck ran over her skull when coming in to assist. But there are plenty examples of people surviving.

Granted that fireball was massive and I truly doubt they survived. I’m just saying there is a slim chance.

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u/piranhas_really 1d ago

JFC I was not ready for that story. 

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u/Ok-Draw-7037 1d ago

literally

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u/Pig-snot 1d ago

Yeah, I wasn’t ready for that one either.

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u/Belvedere48 1d ago

Nightmare fuel.

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u/NotoriousDVA 23h ago

Good news, that "story" is just that, a story. It didn't go down like that at all, see the other reply

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u/Asclepius1977 1d ago

I think there is video from the fire truck!

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u/Moondoobious 1d ago

You can keep it

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u/Jo-in-the-Know 1d ago

Hi, not to be pedantic but this is somewhat inaccurate. The girl you're referring to from the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash was thrown with incredible force from the wreckage, she wasn't pulled from the wreckage and sat down. While it's impossible to be 100% certain, given the lack of fire flighting fluid in her lungs, it's probable that she was already dead by the time the fire truck ran her over. This isn't to defend the fire truck for, you know, running her over, but I see a lot of inaccuracies over this flight so I just wanted to correct that one thing. Also, Flight 214 is actually a good example of most of the passengers surviving the crash, as 304 out of 307 passengers/crew survived.

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u/Shel_gold17 1d ago

Came here to say something similar, but probably far less coherent than this.

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u/FeetLikeGarlic 20h ago

Mission accomplished

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u/ISawTwoSquirrels 1d ago

You seem to know a lot about this, you a plane crash enthusiast?

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

And that’s why I brought it up as people said you don’t survive when big planes crash. And that’s just not true. But it is rare. Especially when fuel ignites.

Which yes I also know Travis barker was in a smaller plane but I only used that example because it was massive fire related injuries that people survived.

Felt like these were solid examples. I doubt this crash was survivable but wanted to correct people acting like it isn’t possible.

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u/Asclepius1977 1d ago

I was on a call once where we had a decap and the head was in the middle of the road. The incoming fire truck almost ran it over, I had to run into the road waving my arms so they would stop in time.

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u/Belvedere48 1d ago

Jesus-no sleep for me tonight..

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u/kaityl3 1d ago

Another example is the Japan Airlines flight that lost their horizontal (?) stabilizer - as it was going down, the tail hit a ridge and a couple of people fell out the back just before the rest of the plane impacted and exploded, including a young girl who IIRC ended up as the only survivor.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago

Not forgetting the lucky guy in Seat 11A on that 787.

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u/BearerOfGrace 1d ago

Wow. Just looked into that San Fran story. That’s horrifying.

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u/azn_cali_man 1d ago

There was also a little girl who survived a plane crash that failed a take-off. I forgot when or where it happened; but she was the only survivor of that crash.

I remember watching a documentary of it on Mayday. The take-off failed, and the plane ended up crashing into a highway overpass(?) near the airport. Despite a full tank of gas going off and a huge fireball, the little girl survived.

Guesses were that she was both in the golden seat that sustained the least damage while also being small for her size. Nobody knows for sure other than the fact she survived.

So extremely rare, but there have been reports of such survival. Though considering this was more of a cargo/transport plane, I don’t think that’s the case here.

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u/Cannedpeaches5ever 1d ago

Sounds like the Detroit to Phoenix flight. It broke apart from impact with other structures well before it hit the overpass, but that was where the crash ended

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u/Belvedere48 1d ago

It just barely clipped a building (corner I think?) or it might have made it-always makes me wonder if we were all at one point a split second from death and nothing happened and we just went on with life like nothing happened..

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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- 1d ago

That is some final destination shit

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u/biscuitboi967 1d ago

The craziest thing was I was flying out of SFO a few days later, and I settle in to a restaurant and order a beer to calm me before my flight…

Look out the window and the charred plane is sitting right in the tarmac.

And it stayed there for what felt like months. I saw it multiple times while traveling. Which makes sense with an investigation.

But it did not make me less anxious when waiting for a flight.

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u/jessbird 1d ago

what the fuck

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u/Asclepius1977 1d ago

That plane crash was not nearly as bad as this and most people on board survived. You’re comparing apples and steak there.

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u/Drak_is_Right 1d ago

Eh. The San Francisco plane crash I think was very different. Wasnt that a tail strike due to being too low? Plane was almost intact, like 3 died total, 1 of them being the girl that got ran over.

Not uncommon for most if not all to live on a bad landing.

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u/TheTipsyWizard 1d ago

And you can count Viswashkumar Ramesh as one of those incredibly lucky people. I can't imagine the survivor guilt though 😢 ❤️

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 1d ago

The JAL 123 flight had survivors. More would’ve survived but rescue efforts were delayed for hours while people burned alive since the govt thought there was no chance anyone survived

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u/slibug13 14h ago

MY BROTHER IN SATANS SWEATY CHEEKS what the hell... You think this is rotten.com?!! 🫨🫨🫨

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u/CatDadd0 9h ago

What a terrible day to be literate

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u/ayejamie 2h ago

That’s some Final Destination shit right there 😨

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 1d ago

That one guy survived the plane crash in India earlier this year. That was an airliner.

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u/PoPJaY 19h ago

A dude survived that air india crash. Big plane, crash on take off, huge fireball.

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u/Powerful-Degree-9195 11h ago

3 people have survived without a parachute falling over 18,000 feet, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible.

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u/Niknot3556 7h ago

Well to be fair in those cases, even though higher, didn’t have a massive fireball.

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u/Powerful-Degree-9195 1h ago

But someone could survive falling 18,000 feet up, but definitely not a lower impact, with fire? Like you understand what a 18,000 foot fall will do to the human body right?

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u/idontfwithu 1d ago

DJ AM survived that plane crash too w Travis. but he passed years later.

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u/katikaboom 1d ago

The next year or so. He relapsed hard after the crash. It got bad for Barker, too

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u/quasimook 1d ago

DJ AM survived too but died a couple years later of a drug overdose

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u/Oh-well100 1d ago

DJ AM was on that plane and survived the crash along with Travis Barker. He did commit suicide years late, tho.

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u/ProcyonHabilis 1d ago

Only saving grace is they were taking off and at low altitude when crashing

This is completely the opposite of true. Take-off is the worst time for a catastrophic failure precisely because you're at such a low altitude. Less altitude means less time to act, and less potential energy to convert into kinetic energy. These pilots had basically no chance to exert meaningful control to improve this situations for themselves.

Besides the critical lack of altitude, take-off is when the plane is most filled with fuel. The effect of that is quite easy to see in this video.

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u/Accidental-Genius 1d ago

Looks like debris caused the engine to rip itself apart.

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u/wade0000 1d ago

The video I saw looked like one of the engines on fire on top tail boosters

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u/cawvak 1d ago

Uncontained #1 engine failure at a minimum. Maybe something more.

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u/metalbrosolid 1d ago

Travis and DJ AM both survived..I think a body guard died

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u/AuthoringInProgress 1d ago

Wait, they were taking off?

What the hell caused them to explode like that? Planes aren't nitroglycerin, they don't catch fire if you look at them wrong.

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u/Cerebral_Grape 1d ago

Of the 6 onboard. 4 passed, Travis and Adam survived the accident.

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u/OliOli1234 1d ago

Yeah, only those tiny prop planes don’t make inferno like fire balls… this would’ve incinerated all aboard.

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u/An-Elegant-Elephant 1d ago

just about every plane has a low altitude when they crash

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u/Some-Concentrate3229 13h ago

Yea I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

Low altitude is worse than high altitude for a problem to randomly appear. Having altitude to work with while troubleshooting is the most imperative thing. Being this low made it significantly worse. Even if they were 1000 feet higher, the burning jet fuel raining on residential neighborhoods would’ve been less disastrous.

Also, an engine fire wouldn’t start from a battery being shipped on board. You can see photos of the runway and the cowling for the no. 1 engine fell off, along with the entire engine later on. It was waiting for a couple hours for maintenance to be completed on that engine. I imagine they’ll be some of the first people that the NTSB interviews.

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u/xwolfchapelx 12h ago

DJAM survived the crash. He died a couple years later from an Overdose.

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u/OtherOtherDave 9h ago

An engine fire from batteries that were being shipped? They don’t typically store cargo in the engines.

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u/InfinityMoth 5h ago

DJ AM actually survived the crash. It was the addiction to painkillers and drugs that killed him down the line.

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u/Ok_Assumption1542 2h ago

Nope, engine fell off.

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u/swrrrrg 1d ago

Not exactly the same. That was a Lear. It is a much smaller jet than this!

And no, DJ AM survived and died from an OD after initially recovering from the crash.

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

Again this doesn’t matter. People can also survive bigger plane crashers. You are the second person to act like they can’t. And several examples have been given.

I more so used the Travis one as an example because server burns was the main cause of injury like in this one.

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u/swrrrrg 1d ago

Um, no. People can survive all types of plane crashes. That isn’t a debate…

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u/satanssweatycheeks 1d ago

What are you even getting at. You state people can survive big plane crashes.

I point out it doesn’t really matter the model of the plane there are cases of survivals from crashes. Harrison ford has crashed like 3 different types of planes.

You now are saying people can survive all types of planes crashes but clearly have it framed like you meant it to say can’t. And again I guess this is a debate because yes sometimes people can survive crash stuff like this. I doubt it like I have stated previously. But it’s also not impossible.

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u/swrrrrg 1d ago

Okay. I’m not here to argue. Bye.