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The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, took to social media on Friday evening to announce a 14th person who has died after a UPS cargo plane crashed as it was taking off at that city’s airport on Tuesday.
But a cockpit voice recorder picked up a ringing sound during takeoff that may have signaled looming disaster in the crash that killed at least 13 in Louisville, Ky.
The death toll rose to 14 after Mayor Craig Greenberg said another body was found at the crash site. Three UPS crew members on the plane were identified.
Haunting similarities can be found between the UPS jet crash and the deadliest aviation incident in U.S. history, a crash at O'Hare Airport in 1979.
The death toll in a UPS plane crash in Louisville, Ky., rose to 12 on Wednesday and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear a state of emergency around the airport
At least 11 people have died and more than a dozen are injured after a UPS cargo plane crashed while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday evening. Aviation experts who spoke to BBC Verify believe the plane crashed after one engine failed and another appeared to be damaged during take-off.