Dash Cam view of the Louisville Plane Crash

Dash Cam view of the Louisville Plane Crash

UPS Flight 2976, a 34-year-old McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (reg N259UP) owned and operated by UPS Airlines, lifted off Runway 17L at 5:15 PM yesterday en route to Honolulu.
NTSB board member Todd Inman confirmed today:
🔥 Airport CCTV shows the left engine (GE CF6) detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll.
The engine was found intact on the airfield grass—already separated before the plane left the ground.
A fire erupted in the left wing as the jet accelerated.
The MD-11 barely cleared the perimeter fence, then stalled and slammed into two industrial buildings 0.8 miles off airport property.
220,000 lbs of jet fuel turned the site into a half-mile inferno.
Death toll: 12 confirmed (3 crew + 9 on ground, including 1 child). 15 injured, several still missing.
Black boxes recovered; NTSB will dig into recent fuel-tank crack repairs (Sept–Oct 2025) and full engine maintenance logs.
Louisville’s Worldport—UPS’s global air hub—remains partially shut. Passenger flights resuming with delays.