UPS, deadly plane crash
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The power had just gone off and the ground was shaking at Grade A Auto Parts when the owner received a panicked video call from his chief financial officer. On his screen, CEO Sean Garber watched a “huge fireball” engulf the Louisville,
But a cockpit voice recorder picked up a ringing sound during takeoff that may have signaled looming disaster in the crash that killed at least 13 in Louisville, Ky.
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Investigators look into ‘repeating bell’ heard during takeoff of UPS cargo plane that crashed
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A repeating bell sounded in the cockpit for 25 seconds as pilots tried to control a UPS cargo plane that caught fire, had an engine fall off and crashed during takeoff this week in Louisville, Kentucky, a National Transportation Safety Board member said Friday.
In a statement released today, UPS officials provided additional information about the pilots who were killed in the Louisville flight crash.
At least 13 people were killed and several others injured after a UPS plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville International Airport on Tuesday.
More than two dozen officials with the National Transportation and Safety Board are on site and have begun sifting through the mangled remnants of a UPS cargo plane that crashed after an engine detached during takeoff near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.