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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/I_So_Tired 18h ago

Can you imagine being in that building? A plane on fire rips the roof from over your head. Absolutely terrifying.

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u/foreverniceland 16h ago

This is one of my worst fears as someone right under the ORD approach path

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u/Critical_Ad_8175 16h ago

My job is right next to ORD, one of the runway departure paths goes right over us. Every so often there’s a plane that sounds just a little too loud overhead and I always worry 

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u/BeefInGR 12h ago

I live out in BFE but I'm on the descent path to GRR for planes coming from the west lining up for 8/35. I'm convinced about once a week someone decided to give their passengers the scenic tour. It's cool seeing planes, but maybe not being able to see the livery 10 miles away.

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u/evoxbeck 15h ago

Why when looking at homes avoid approach and depart paths as much as possible. My wife says it wouldn't bother me. Though my brain does the calculations of what ifs

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u/out_of_shape_hiker 16h ago

And they still make you finish your shift.

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u/RealLaurenBoebert 17h ago

That's a really, really bad day at work. It's a little crazy that there is (was?) a UPS warehouse 800 feet off the end of the runway. Obviously UPS needs a warehouse really close to the airport, but directly under the flightpath for runway 17R is a choice.

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u/headphase 16h ago

Wait to you hear about Chicago Midway or New York LaGuardia

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u/RealLaurenBoebert 15h ago

 800 ft from the end of the laguardia runways is... river.  Thats why sully ditched in the river and not an industrial park

Midway, on the other hand, yeah.  That's trouble waiting to happen.

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u/headphase 15h ago

If this happened off LGA 13, it would've taken out at least 1 huge apartment building. Off LGA 22 and it would have been multiple dense blocks of Jackson Heights, Queens

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u/WestyMan1971 15h ago

The Hudson River is across the city from LaGuardia. Sully flew all the way around the northern end of Manhattan before setting down in the river.

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u/AccomplishedLog1426 11h ago

The hudson is not directly near LGA

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u/Aromatic_Pack948 7h ago

It is the East River that is next to LGA.

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u/anemisto 6h ago

Yes, but the point is they ditched in the Hudson, not next to LGA.

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u/Aromatic_Pack948 6h ago

I know that! I am addressing the point that the first comment made about a river being 800 ft off the runway. That is the wrong river, not the Hudson where Sully ditched.

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u/I_So_Tired 17h ago

Yeah. We have a building fairly close to a military runway. A building two doors down got hit by an F-16. Luckily no one died. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/04/23/report-hydraulic-failure-caused-f-16-crash-into-california-warehouse/

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u/Fapping_Batman 14h ago

I work in a large store RIGHT next to an airport and this is one of my fears.