#plane crash

#plane crash

A federal investigator announced earlier on Wednesday the UPS cargo plane's left wing caught fire and an engine fell off shortly after takeoff from the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport, causing the plane to crash and explode into a fireball. The National Transportation Safety Board has said it is investigating the plane's maintenance history which was in Texas for repairs weeks before the crash.

Driving the news: UPS flight 2976 was scheduled to fly from Louisville to Honolulu when it went down around 5:15 p.m. local time, the FAA said on X. The Louisville Metro Police Department originally issued a shelter-in-place order for all locations within five miles of the airport. The order has since been expanded to all areas north of the airport to the Ohio River.

Kongjian Yu, one of the world's most famous landscape architects, has reportedly been killed in a plane crash in Brazil'sPantanal wetlands while making a film about his work. Yu, 62, was flying to a ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul state, near Brazil's western border with Paraguay and Bolivia, in a single-engine four-seater Cessna aircraft when the plane went down on Tuesday afternoon. Three others on board were also killed: two Brazilian filmmakers, Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Junior, and Marcelo Pereira de Barros, a well-known local pilot.

Three people have walked away uninjured after a small plane crashed in a field in Toronto's east end on Monday night, police say. The plane crashed near Monarch Park in the area of Felstead and Coxwell avenues, according to Toronto police. Officers were called to the scene shortly after 8:15 p.m. Police said three people were on board but no injuries have been reported. Officers are on the scene investigating.

It was the story of a plane crash, which, of course, got a lot of attention. But once they actually figured out that four kids were lost in the jungle, it became national, big, big news,

The Russian warlord and businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin looked doomed after his failed mutiny and told his mother he expected to die in the days before his private plane crash. Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, died when his business jet went down in the summer of 2023, two months after his fighters briefly seized control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and advanced towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion against Russia's military leadership.

The Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft took off at 1:06 pm local time and crashed soon after at the Milestone School and College campus, killing at least 19 people.

"He's got complicated grief and sorrow and his own emotional stress," said Njoroge's lawyer, Robert Clifford. "He's haunted by nightmares and the loss of his wife and children."

Geoffrey's family, friends, and his beloved wife Gentry are devastated and heartbroken at his untimely death Thursday morning when the plane he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff.