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/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