UPS MD-11 Crash in SDF

[nunya]

Looks like a UPS jet is down near SDF.   😢

https://www.wlky.com/article/plane-crash-explosion-louisville-airport/69255042

 

edit: UPS2976

[ClearedHot]

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.

 

 

[brabus]

Holy shit, prayers for all affected. So weird to see it post-rotate and not climb at all.

[jonlbs]

RIP to the crew and those on the ground.

[DirkDiggler]

Hope I’m wrong but that looks bad

[Biff_T]

Bummer.

[Lord Ratner]

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. 

[FourFans]

This is heart breaking for the bros here at Brown.  The MD crew force is packed with a great dudes.  

[nunya]

No names yet?

[FourFans]

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.

[HeyEng]

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. 

[Swizzle]

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

 

[lloyd christmas]

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.  

[ecugringo]

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.

[skybert]

American 191.

[arg]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQqZ5HsjTK1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

[M2]

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

[M2]

[ClearedHot]

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.

[SHFP]

Yes…”Fate is the Hunter” by Ernie Gann

[HuggyU2]

 

[Lord Ratner]

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.

[brabus]

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.

[M2]

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/

 

[BadgerDave]

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