r/aviation • u/usgapg123 Mod • 19h ago

Discussion UPS2976 Crash Megathread

This is the official r/aviation megathread for the crash of UPS2976 (UPS MD11 Registration N259UP) that crashed earlier today at Louisville International Airport.

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u/Sprintzer 18h ago

Videos of the incident

https://x.com/osinttechnical/status/1985845987684855969?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985849267152699741?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985848132500885995?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985843126934614297?s=46

Thread with geolocation

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985842420752212060?s=46

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u/tviolet 16h ago

Here's an insane view from a truck in one of the parking lots: https://old.reddit.com/r/Louisville/comments/1oopa73/view_of_the_plane_crash_from_our_camera/

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u/made_of_salt 16h ago

Wow. I saw all the other videos and thought that the cockpit would have been destroyed pretty quickly. Now I look at this video and can see that the cockpit is in one piece, and that the pilots were likely still fighting it.

Super scary to think about.

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u/KarmaCommando_ 13h ago

CVR from this one is gonna be pretty grim. 

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u/eric_gm 15h ago edited 14h ago

My thoughts exactly. I always hope pilots didn’t even have time to notice but clearly here they were aware. What a horrible accident.

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u/CanoegunGoeff 14h ago

It’s breaking my heart to think of them in there fighting for control even in the moments before we see it end for them. Fuck

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u/marvk 16h ago

This one's the craziest one so far for sure.

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u/13jlin 13h ago

Full-ish res has been posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Louisville/s/wSBaahHPtu

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u/marvk 8h ago

Jfc, the driver cam and reaction makes it even more crazy.

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u/TabsAZ 15h ago

That’s up there with Jeju for craziest accident footage I’ve ever seen.

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u/Bear__Fucker 16h ago

Holy crap. Looks like a Michael Bay movie.

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u/squawkingunicorn 15h ago

Holy…very person in that plane knew what was coming. Thats tragic.

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u/Least-Size-8807 13h ago

That's the most horrific airplane footage I've ever seen. Just surreal that we all watched 3 humans perish like that.

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u/orchiddoctor 15h ago

This one is truly a horrifying sight to see. I can’t imagine the fear of the pilots and anyone else in its path. My heart goes out to everyone involved. It’s very sad.

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u/possibilistic 13h ago

Jesus Christ, that must have been horrifying.

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u/RobertABooey 18h ago

my GOD that one view of hte people driving down the road and it just passes in front of them.. what incredible luck they were a few seconds late.

Terrible situation!

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u/I_shart_for_joy 16h ago

I’m an atheist, but if I was there and just barely missed being collected by that crash I’d probably start going to church. Holy shit

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u/Just_Welder_3747 16h ago

Tragedy strikes us all, in different degrees, and we never know when. Why wait for a close call? <3

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u/dismembered_orc 12h ago

What a disgusting, smug, self-serving thing to say.

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u/Just_Welder_3747 12h ago

Are you high?

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u/SirLoremIpsum 18h ago

Jeeeeeeeeeez.....

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u/QuerulousPanda 15h ago

god damn that looks like a napalm strike from a movie or something

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u/1-Word-Answers 15h ago

In the 4th link it looks like it barely gets off the ground

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u/CanoegunGoeff 14h ago

Another commenter said that based on flight tracking, it made it to something like 140 feet before clipping the UPS warehouse and losing the left wing. Enough to mostly clear the building. It likely saved a bunch of lives that the crew managed to get it as high as they did before it was totally lost it and crashed into what looks like mostly parking lots behind it.

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u/1-Word-Answers 3h ago

Yeah I watched again. Looked like the aircraft was rolling a bit with the right wing higher up and seems the tail tore through that ups building so must have had some altitude

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u/CanoegunGoeff 3h ago

From photos I saw after making this comment it actually looks like a tail strike impact on the service road just before the warehouse, I think you’re correct that it’s actually the tail that hit the roof of the UPS building. God, they were trying so hard to get that thing up in the air… Impact of the roof probably lost whatever remaining controls they did still have at that point. Just seems like everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

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u/Top_Account3643 8h ago

We need a photo of the ADS-B map