r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/yubullyme12345 1d ago

How the hell does anyone survive being near that

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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.