The National Transportation Safety Board has released a new investigative update into the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 2976, ...
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The MD-11’s three engines were meant to make “one engine out” a manageable problem; an engine leaving the airplane is ...
The NTSB's preliminary investigation into UPS Flight 2976's crash is focusing on fatigue cracking found within the left engine pylon structure. Surveillance video shows the No. 1 engine and pylon ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has widened its emergency response to a serious engine pylon issue that was first uncovered on the MD-11 freighter fleet. Days after grounding the McDonnell ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - FAA records show maintenance workers repaired a crack on the crashed UPS plane’s left engine pylon in 2019. The NTSB said Friday the bulk of that pylon was still attached to ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Amid the search for answers to the UPS plane crash is a case investigators are likely reviewing. That case is a 1979 crash in Chicago. It was a similar aircraft to the UPS ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Over 46 years before UPS flight 2976 crashed just south of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing 14 people, a DC-10 passenger jet suffered a similar left engine ...
Still images from airport security footage shows UPS Flight 2976's left engine separating and moving over the aircraft as the MD-11 rotates. Credit: UPS via NTSB Fatigue cracks in part of the aircraft ...
Newly released photos included in a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville show the moment the aircraft's left engine came off during ...
The left engine that came off the UPS McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 leading to its fatal crash Nov. 4 had most of its pylon attached when it separated, NTSB investigators have determined. “The bulk of the ...