UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

Box hauler said:
Anyone know how long Lee had been at UPS? He looks incredibly similar to a 5 year guy who was in my UAL interview group in September.
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Almost 5yrs, he’s a few months ahead of me. Like someone else mentioned he seemed to love it here. That ray of sunshine that can be hard to find around here. With that being said we’ve also had a fair amount of people leave for other pastures this year so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was him you seen.
 
ERfly said:
. I was sitting Airport Standby in MEM on Tuesday afternoon when it happened. Maybe it's hitting different now that I have a family, but I just keep thinking how it could have been me.
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Small world, I was sitting Airport Standby also. Were we paired together?

Alex.
 
///AMG said:
It is horrific. I have plenty of friends there, but beyond that, I have no personal connection. It is still horrific to watch that footage, and know that it is simply luck that it wasn't you. I have no doubt those folks did everything right.
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I'm sure it's been said, but sometimes when your number is up . . . it's up.

We mitigate everything we are able to mitigate. We train to perform at peak. We fight as hard as we can to make it work, but when you harness as much energy as we do, things will go wrong, and often they'll go wrong in ways that are just not possible to mitigate unless we stay on the ground.

It doesn't make it ok, it doesn't mean we shouldn't grieve, and it doesn't mean we have nothing to learn from it. It doesn't mean that the lives of the friends and colleagues we lose are just statistical anomaly and acceptable, and should pass without notice.

This path we walk.
 
It still hurts. This is emotionally traumatizing for me to hear.

Again, my condolences to all either directly or indiirectly involved in this tragedy.

Truly, my prayers go out to all. 🙏

 
🦈💜 said:
I'm sure it's been said, but sometimes when your number is up . . . it's up.

We mitigate everything we are able to mitigate. We train to perform at peak. We fight as hard as we can to make it work, but when you harness as much energy as we do, things will go wrong, and often they'll go wrong in ways that are just not possible to mitigate unless we stay on the ground.

It doesn't make it ok, it doesn't mean we shouldn't grieve, and it doesn't mean we have nothing to learn from it. It doesn't mean that the lives of the friends and colleagues we lose are just statistical anomaly and acceptable, and should pass without notice.

This path we walk.
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Every one of us gets our 100%.

Sadly, that varies greatly between the cradle and the grave with the passing of time.

Done some 340 funerals now. Did a bit of math. 64% were under the age of 40. All of them are hard and all of them are sad, whether infant, adolescent, or adult of any age.

It’s not just old folks who cross the threshold to eternity.
 
🦈💜 said:
I'm sure it's been said, but sometimes when your number is up . . . it's up.

We mitigate everything we are able to mitigate. We train to perform at peak. We fight as hard as we can to make it work, but when you harness as much energy as we do, things will go wrong, and often they'll go wrong in ways that are just not possible to mitigate unless we stay on the ground.

It doesn't make it ok, it doesn't mean we shouldn't grieve, and it doesn't mean we have nothing to learn from it. It doesn't mean that the lives of the friends and colleagues we lose are just statistical anomaly and acceptable, and should pass without notice.

This path we walk.
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“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
 
Early information reported they had 39,000 USG in board. Boeing's specs for the MD-11 Converted freighter shows a capacity of 38,615 USG. Might it be possible someone reported the maximim capacity instead of the actual fuel load?
 
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