UPS cargo plane crashes
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As the sun set and businesses started to close in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, the evening calm was suddenly shattered by a giant explosion near the city’s airport.
A UPS cargo plane, loaded with fuel and bound for Honolulu, crashed shortly past the runway of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport at around 5:15 p.m. Nov. 4, marking the deadliest plane crash in the history of UPS Airlines.
The number of fatalities is expected to increase after a UPS plane crashed Tuesday near the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said.
Shipping giant UPS is the largest economic partner to Louisville’s airport, with a 5.2-million-square-foot shipping facility on site: Worldport — billed as the world’s biggest automated packaging facility in a September economic development report from the airport.
At least seven people are dead after UPS plane crashed in Kentucky. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane crashed about 5:15 p.m.