Engine Detached From UPS Plane Before Fatal Kentucky Crash (3)

Nov. 6, 2025, 12:17 PM UTC

The left engine came off a doomed United Parcel Service Inc. freighter moments before it crashed in a fireball near the company’s global hub in Kentucky, killing at least 12 people.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said in a post on X that the death toll had reached a dozen and said several people were still unaccounted for.

Earlier, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the accident site was “moving from a rescue to a recovery mode. We do not expect to find anyone else alive in the area,” he told reporters.

The fuel-laden, Honolulu-bound McDonnell Douglas MD-11 climbed high enough to ...

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