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UPS aircraft crash at Louisville Kentucky

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.
 
Phaser said:
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.
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Not necessarily. Fire involving fuel and speed(wind blown accelerant) will expand quick. Look what happened to The Concorde. Trying to take off knowing your aircraft is on fire is not something a pilot wants to do. God bless them. Horrible.
 
220,000 lbs of fuel on board. A fire like that will burn through control systens in no time. If the engine disintegrated and exploded shrapnel tears through everything. A series of cascading events with no way out. It appeared in the video I watched the plane was nearly inverted when it went in. The crew was just along for the ride by then. Such a shame. A number of people on the ground were killed, they expect to find more bodies. Fortunately it crashed into an industrial area rather than residential. RIP to those lost and comfort to the families.
 
Phaser said:
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.
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I would think that the engine fire can definitely melt a wing. Especially if it had fuel tanks in them.
 
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