UPS aircraft crash at Louisville Kentucky

[Talyn]

I “heard” this black box was a goner.

Negative.

NTSB just reported they recovered the Black Box(s) and voice recorder.

 

[Jsimon78]

Negative.

NTSB just reported they recovered the Black Box(s) and voice recorder.

Copy that.

 

[HayesGreener]

Negative.

NTSB just reported they recovered the Black Box(s) and voice recorder.

Yeah, they are in the tail and can survive 2000°

 

[last2brake]

Yeah, they are in the tail and can survive 2000°

...and they're not black

 

[Talyn]

Left engine ablaze before lift-off...it's a (3) engine plane...you would think the 2 operational engines would have had enough thrust to give the lift required to get it past that critical moment. With all the automation and safeties built in the fire should have been extinguished almost immediately.

The cam footage at the end of the runway (profile angle) shows it with a high-angle of attack with the engine/wing on fire.

The NTSB days it barely got off the ground before the left engine (on fire) fell off & the plane went in.

It was on a a non-stop flight to Hawaii from KY so it was likely really loaded down, and with 1/3 of the engines out just couldn't make it up for a go around. Even if it would have got up enough for a go around with the wing on fire they were likely doomed.

 

[Phaser]

That makes sense...with the fuel load it required all (3) engines more than likely @ max thrust.

 

[HayesGreener]

I just read a report from someone who claims to know that the bolts holding the left engine on broke off. That could explain a lot.

 

[Keystone19250]

When I worked at the Ford KTP I got the chance to tour the Ford small SUV plant that is right next to the airport and the UPS HUB, UPS planes flew over that Ford plant constantly. It could have been so much worse.

 

[Talyn]

UPS MD-11 Lost No. 1 Engine On Takeoff, NTSB Confirms | Aviation Week Network

The UPS Boeing MD-11 that crashed while taking off from Louisville International Airport Nov. 4 lost its No. 1 engine before the aircraft cleared the airport perimeter, the NTSB said.

aviationweek.com

 

[BarryinIN]

Now I'm hearing the uncontained failure of #1 engine might have damaged #2 engine (tail). If that's the case, and if it did much damage at all, they had no chance of making it.