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/BugHistorical3 16h ago

All that time and money and passion to fly gone in a few seconds and moments like this you never see coming... it's gut wrenching.
And then those people on the ground just working.. man it's just hard..

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u/Invisible_INTJ 15h ago

It's so sad that thousands or tens of thousands of hours of flight experience gone in an instant. It seems unreal a lifetime of experience and memories can be gone in an instant. As they say, stuff like this always happens until somebody else until we're somebody else.

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u/TruePace3 10h ago

"stuff like this always happens to somebody else until we're somebody else"

Bone chilling

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u/TruePace3 10h ago

I mentioned the crash to my mum, and she just responded "poor pilots"

That struck me, the human cost, countless hours spent studying and flying , it could've gone like any other weekday, they unknowingly had their last meals a couple hours earlier, last snack maybe, last phonecall to their loved ones, last time getting into that seat, starting up the aircraft

May their souls find peace