TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ARE NOW INVESTIGATING. THIS CRASH HAS LED TO SEVERAL FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS HEADING IN AND OUT OF THAT AREA, INCLUDING RIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. SO LET’S GO AHEAD AND GET YOU OUT. LIVE TO WESH 2’S HAYLEY CROMBLEHOLME, WHO IS LIVE AT ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RIGHT NOW. HAYLEY. SO UNDERSTANDABLY, THE LOUISVILLE AIRPORT HAS SAID, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS SCENE, THESE MASSIVE FLAMES, THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR AIRFIELD HERE AT MCO, YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THOSE CANCELED FLIGHTS AS SOON AS THIS FLIGHT BOARD SWITCHES SHOWS A LOUISVILLE FLIGHT THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE MAKING IT INTO THE AIRPORT. NOW, THERE WERE FOLKS HERE AT MCO WHO HAD THEIR BAGS CHECKED FOR LOUISVILLE WHEN THEY SAW WHAT HAPPENED. PASSENGERS AT THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TUESDAY NIGHT WERE SET TO HEAD HOME TO KENTUCKY. THEIR BAGS ALREADY CHECKED TO THEIR FLIGHT TO LOUISVILLE. WE WERE WAITING FOR OUR FLIGHT AND THEN WE SEEN ON OUR PHONES THAT THE THAT A PLANE HAD CRASHED AT THE AIRPORT. WE KNEW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE DELAYED FOR SURE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN WE FOUND OUT, THEY TOLD US IT WAS GOING TO BE TOTALLY CANCELED. THEY SAW THE SHOCKING IMAGES OUT OF THE AIRPORT, FLAMES AND MASSIVE PLUMES OF BLACK SMOKE. A SHELTER IN PLACE ORDER WAS ISSUED FOR THOSE WITHIN A FIVE MILE RADIUS OF THE AIRPORT. THE PASSENGERS WE TALKED TO IN ORLANDO WEREN’T SURE WHEN THEY’D BE ABLE TO FLY BACK. WE DON’T KNOW. YOU KNOW, WHEN THE AIRPORT’S GOING TO BE OPEN AGAIN, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY IT WILL OPEN UP TOMORROW MORNING. BUT WE DON’T KNOW. NOW THERE ARE FLIGHTS FROM HERE IN ORLANDO TO LOUISVILLE SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW MORNING. BUT THE AIRPORT SAYS ON THEIR WEBSITE, IF YOU ARE TRYING TO FLY IN OR OUT OF THE AIRPORT TOMORROW, YOU SHOULD KEEP CHECKING THE STATUS OF YOUR FLIGHT. LIVE AT THE O

After the tragic crash of a UPS plane in Louisville, the Muhammad Ali International Airport said its airfield had been closed. There were passengers at the airport in Orlando who had their bags checked for Louisville when they saw what happened. “We were waiting for our flight and then we seen on our phones that a plane had crashed at the airport,” Marilyn Schuler, who lives in Kentucky, said. “We knew that it was going to be delayed for sure, and then we found they told us it was going to be totally canceled,”They saw the shocking images out of the airport. Flames and massive plumes of black smoke. A shelter-in-place order was issued for those within a 5-mile radius of the airport. The passengers WESH 2 talked to in Orlando weren’t sure when they’d be able to fly back. “We don’t know when the airport is going to be open again,” Schuler said, “Hopefully, it will open up tomorrow morning. We don’t know,”There are flights from Orlando to Louisville scheduled for Wednesday, but the airport in Louisville said those arriving or departing from there on Wednesday should keep checking their flight status.

ORLANDO, Fla. —

After the tragic crash of a UPS plane in Louisville, the Muhammad Ali International Airport said its airfield had been closed.

There were passengers at the airport in Orlando who had their bags checked for Louisville when they saw what happened.

“We were waiting for our flight and then we seen on our phones that a plane had crashed at the airport,” Marilyn Schuler, who lives in Kentucky, said. “We knew that it was going to be delayed for sure, and then we found they told us it was going to be totally canceled,”

They saw the shocking images out of the airport. Flames and massive plumes of black smoke.

A shelter-in-place order was issued for those within a 5-mile radius of the airport.

The passengers WESH 2 talked to in Orlando weren’t sure when they’d be able to fly back.

“We don’t know when the airport is going to be open again,” Schuler said, “Hopefully, it will open up tomorrow morning. We don’t know,”

There are flights from Orlando to Louisville scheduled for Wednesday, but the airport in Louisville said those arriving or departing from there on Wednesday should keep checking their flight status.