November 4Nov 4 Looks like a UPS jet is down near SDF. 😢 https://www.wlky.com/article/plane-crash-explosion-louisville-airport/69255042 edit: UPS2976
November 4Nov 4 MD-11 - Not good. Really ungood - Takeoff incident. Engine was on fire. A friend at the airport says approximately 10 city blocks near the airport are on fire near the airport. UPS.mp4
November 5Nov 5 Holy shit, prayers for all affected. So weird to see it post-rotate and not climb at all.
November 5Nov 5 You can see what looks like compressor stalls on the number 2 engine right at the beginning of the video. Number 1 exploded and FOD'd out the tail engine, which explains the lack of climb. 180k lbs of fuel. There was nothing the crew could do. So fucking sad.
November 5Nov 5 This is heart breaking for the bros here at Brown. The MD crew force is packed with a great dudes.
November 5Nov 5 11 hours ago, nunya said: No names yet? I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. ID and NOK notification have to occur, and it appears the aircraft crashed into occupied buildings.
November 5Nov 5 One of the pilots was a Squadron Mate of mine but his name hasn’t officially been released yet. I was an FE on the DC-10 for about a year and I don’t know if the MD-11 was similar but I was never impressed with the aircraft especially the slat system. For an aircraft that was so dependent on leading edge slats there was a lack of backups to prevent them from retracting if you lost hydraulics! Pictures have surfaced of the number one engine and nacelle cowl laying off the side of the runway and I have heard from the grapevine that another engine was damaged as well.
November 5Nov 5 3 hours ago, HeyEng said: One of the pilots was a Squadron Mate of mine but his name hasn’t officially been released yet. I was an FE on the DC-10 for about a year and I don’t know if the MD-11 was similar but I was never impressed with the aircraft especially the slat system. For an aircraft that was so dependent on leading edge slats there was a lack of backups to prevent them from retracting if you lost hydraulics! Pictures have surfaced of the number one engine and nacelle cowl laying off the side of the runway and I have heard from the grapevine that another engine was damaged as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA89MA063.aspx
November 5Nov 5 3 hours ago, Swizzle said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA89MA063.aspx There was a similar crash of a DC-10 in 1979 in Chicago where the engine on the left wing separated from the aircraft.
November 5Nov 5 A friend in the cargo world and knows a guy that flew that jet a week ago heard the flight was delayed 2 hrs for engine mx.
November 6Nov 6 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQqZ5HsjTK1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
November 6Nov 6 Uh-oh!! The MD-11 that crashed spent much of September and October at ST Engineering at San Antonio International Airport. The company maintains the carrier's fleet... https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/ups-louisville-st-engineering-san-antonio-crash-21139968.php
November 7Nov 7 A buddy who is a long time captain at Delta posted today basically saying through no fault of your own sometimes your luck just runs out. I know they will find the cause and I seriously doubt there was thing anyone of these guys could have done. Same for the people on the ground including a baby from reporting. Rest in peace.
November 7Nov 7 13 hours ago, ClearedHot said: A buddy who is a long time captain at Delta posted today basically saying through no fault of your own sometimes your luck just runs out. I know they will find the cause and I seriously doubt there was thing anyone of these guys could have done. Same for the people on the ground including a baby form reporting. Rest in peace. I will be completely stunned if anything in the report suggests an alternative outcome. It's hard enough to deal with an engine failure during takeoff, but when the engine completely explodes, to expect someone to analyze that in seconds is already a heavy lift. It's what we're trained to do, but that doesn't mean it's easy. But to then have to analyze a second engine starting to fail? No way. And all for what? Based on where the plane was on the runway in the videos we've seen, there was no stopping, and there was no going. At that point you're just arguing over where to put the fireball. I sincerely hope for the sake of the maintainers who were working on that engine over the past couple months that they too are the victims of Fate, and not something that's going to make them feel like murderers for the rest of their lives.
November 7Nov 7 I don’t think losing the one engine (at least in an airbus) is a huge deal, not even hard to deal with. But, all bets are off when it falls off, likely resulting in ruptured hyd lines and fuel cells. Then throw in the alleged loss of the #3 at 500k GW. Screwed…nobody can recover from that.
November 7Nov 7 Just read that Captain Richard Wartenberg was with the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base... https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/wright-patt-officer-was-one-of-those-killed-in-ups-crash/QIGGSYR5INFMRGTYSVYOV3EHXE/
November 7Nov 7 KY Air Guard ARFF rigs & crews were some of the first on scene; per the scanner feed I heard they were fully integrated into the larger civilian incident response. Kentucky National Guard responds to fatal civilian plane crash > 123rd Airlift Wing > Article Display
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