Cory Trevor
Well-Known Member
Gotcha, never flew anything with more than 2
UPS MD-11 crash at SDF
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ChasenSFO
hen teaser
That roll is very scary, I can imagine the last people to work on this aircraft are going to have a miserable time awaiting information. Obviously most engine separations don't go over the wing like AA191, I'll be very curious to see if this happened right around rotation and tore across the wing or if it came from the bottom. Regardless, it was a simply horrifying way to go that these people didn't deserve. Really hoping that a bunch of ground casualties don't surface in the morning.
A miracle this never happened to a passenger MD-11 as it was apparently possible all along...damn. RIP to everyone.
A miracle this never happened to a passenger MD-11 as it was apparently possible all along...damn. RIP to everyone.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
767 at lax, HP turbine let go. Part of it lodged in the tailpipe of the other engine. Was just texting about this with another jcer. Was also a CF6. Ludicrously lucky as it happened during a mx run to diagnose an EGT fluctuation.
AA 767 High Pressure Turbine Failure
a Gulfstream Jet sinks into the asphalt - apparently it was too heavy for the tarmac to support it.
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Pilot Fighter
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Damn, I was hoping the pilots had a tiny bit of control in their final moments versus being horrified passengers. Gives me a sickening feeling.
I never want to hear the CVR. Heck, don’t want to read the CVR.
Yeah, SDF would be shut down due to the CFR trucks and crews being dedicated to this scene both on and off airport, along with the LFD. Same with the Kentucky ANG CFR fire trucks too. SDF airport has a very robust CFR capability. Even though the airport civilian FD only has 3 medium crash fire trucks, 1 small crash fire truck and 1 rescue truck; the Air National Guard has 1 large crash fire truck, 1 medium crash fire truck, 1 small crash fire truck, 1 heavy water tender and 1 rescue truck; while the co-located on their ramp Army National Guard has 4 heavy tactical crash fire trucks and 3 heavy water tender trucks. SDF has the luck of being a joint-use civil-military airfield, and enjoys this large fire rescue capability, like most joint use fields do.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
New angle, seems to show the first impact.
www.dailymail.co.uk
UPS plane crashes near Kentucky airport, leaving four dead
The MD-11 plane exploded around 5.15pm as it departed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
phill1174
Well-Known Member
Looking at the engine in the grass beside the runway while the airplane continued on I’d bet there will be a fleet wide inspection.
As an airline we’re gonna have our hands full over the next few weeks I’d imagine. I’m pretty numb after watching a friend’s last moment but the only advice I have to offer to my IPA/UPS brothers and sisters is to take time for yourself if you need it. We’re going into peak where we give 110% for weeks on end. Take care of yourselves and recognize when you have nothing left to give.
ShortField
No one of consequence
Condolences. Losing friends, even acquaintances in such a way is heartbreaking, to say the least.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
Good reason to never allow flight deck video for accident investigation. No one, least of all their families, should ever watch their loved ones die, heroically or otherwise. And no matter how locked down it is, you know it would leak.
It would certainly leak. I mean, I don't mean this politically, but we've got people with very sensitive information sharing that with friends and family under the guise of "bro, check this out".
Having lost so many friends over the years to aviation accidents that I've literally run out of toes and fingers to count, I have no interest in watching videos because it's just grief porn after a point.