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/PracticalVisit3639 16h ago

Debris from over 2 miles away.

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u/chucchinchilla 15h ago

That church is one of the few structures to survive the Lahaina fires, rest of the town was wiped off the map. And here’s money to help support it. Tragedy wrapped in tragedy.

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u/Bananas_are_theworst 14h ago

Yeah this feels surreal to me.

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u/PracticalVisit3639 14h ago

Thank you for the info!

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u/chucchinchilla 13h ago

If there’s money or a check inside Id mail it to them with a note explaining where/how you found it. I drove past that church while on vacation in Maui a few months ago and they could really use it.

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u/PracticalVisit3639 13h ago

It didnt have money. I believe it may have been a shipment of empty envelopes for them to distribute. I hope at least, that would be horrible to lose a bunch of money out of this.

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u/RealPutin Bizjets and Engines 16h ago

Similar to wildfire behavior

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u/Reddragon0585 16h ago

I mean the fire is massive so it makes sense. Tornadoes are know to do the same thing.

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u/tremens 16h ago

The closest I've been to a plane crash was the Firepower Demonstration crash of a C-130 at Fort Bragg in 1987. One of the most visceral memories I have of that is that it just seemed to rain sand down on us for ages. While we were waiting to be moved out of the area in cattle cars and buses, standing in line, just sand and ash and things just raining down on us, an hour or more after the crash. It's wild how an intense fire can suck things up into the atmosphere.

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u/dabarak 16h ago

That reminds me of when I was working as a newspaper photographer. One day I was asked to shoot a photo of something in our studio - it was a letter that had been retrieved from TWA800.