NTSB, UPS plane crash
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UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, officials said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter plane was headed to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, when the plane's left engine detached after a "large plume of fire" erupted from the plane's left wing, according to the NTSB.
Investigators are reviewing 63 hours of data collected from the black box of a UPS cargo plane involved in a deadly crash that killed at least 13 people in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this week. Nine people remain missing as authorities sift through the wreckage of Tuesday's crash in an attempt to piece together what went wrong.
Still images and aerial video footage appear to show the plane's left engine sitting just off the runway in Louisville, Kentucky.