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A UPS cargo plane carrying three crew members crashed and exploded during takeoff from Louisville International Airport on Tuesday evening, killing at least three people and injuring 11 others. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews continue responding to the scene. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft, bound for Honolulu, burst into flames on its left wing before lifting briefly off the runway and crashing in a massive fireball around 5:15 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Video footage captured the explosion and revealed damage to a building’s roof near the end of the runway.
The crash triggered a shelter-in-place order for all areas north of the airport, which sits just 10 minutes from downtown Louisville near the Ohio River. Emergency responders face ongoing dangers from aircraft fuel and potentially explosive materials at the crash site, forcing some first responders to take cover behind structures, Beshear said. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg cited the plane’s fuel as an “extreme reason for concern.” The airport houses UPS’s largest package-handling facility in the world, employing thousands of workers and processing more than 400,000 packages per hour across 300 daily flights. The 1991-manufactured aircraft’s cause of failure remains under investigation by federal authorities.
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