At least seven people are dead and 11 others injured after a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, hitting a petroleum recycling plant and several other buildings. Video shows the plane trying to take off with flames coming from it before it fell from the sky and exploded.The crash happened just after 5 p.m. The UPS plane was scheduled to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii. Nicholas Davidson, a New Hampshire man in Kentucky, described receiving a shelter-in-place alert on his phone.”All of our phones, like, blow up with Amber Alerts, and we’re like, ‘What is going on?’ It’s not tornado season,” Davidson said. “And it’s like, oh, shelter in place, there’s been an incident at the Louisville airport, like, anyone in a five mile radium, like, don’t leave your house. I saw, like, four or five ambulance ripe down the highway.”>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play << UPS confirmed three crew members were on board, all of which have died. Four additional people on the ground also died.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he expects both the death toll and number of injuries to climb.Beshear urged families to support one another while authorities work to provide information about loved ones. “There are a lot of families that are going to be waiting and wondering for a period of time. We’re going to try to get them that information as fast as we can. But if this is a family you know, please give them your support, please give them your prayers, please give them your love, and be with them because the toughest moments, and I can say it from personal experience, are when you’re wondering whether that person that you know and you care about has survived something like this,” he said.A reunification center has been set up at the Louisville Metro Police Department training facility. The FAA said the Louisville airport will be closed until 7 a.m. Wednesday. >> Subscribe to WMUR’s YouTube channel <<
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
At least seven people are dead and 11 others injured after a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, hitting a petroleum recycling plant and several other buildings.
Video shows the plane trying to take off with flames coming from it before it fell from the sky and exploded.
The crash happened just after 5 p.m. The UPS plane was scheduled to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Nicholas Davidson, a New Hampshire man in Kentucky, described receiving a shelter-in-place alert on his phone.
“All of our phones, like, blow up with Amber Alerts, and we’re like, ‘What is going on?’ It’s not tornado season,” Davidson said. “And it’s like, oh, shelter in place, there’s been an incident at the Louisville airport, like, anyone in a five mile radium, like, don’t leave your house. I saw, like, four or five ambulance ripe down the highway.”
>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play <<
UPS confirmed three crew members were on board, all of which have died. Four additional people on the ground also died.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he expects both the death toll and number of injuries to climb.
Beshear urged families to support one another while authorities work to provide information about loved ones.
“There are a lot of families that are going to be waiting and wondering for a period of time. We’re going to try to get them that information as fast as we can. But if this is a family you know, please give them your support, please give them your prayers, please give them your love, and be with them because the toughest moments, and I can say it from personal experience, are when you’re wondering whether that person that you know and you care about has survived something like this,” he said.
A reunification center has been set up at the Louisville Metro Police Department training facility.
The FAA said the Louisville airport will be closed until 7 a.m. Wednesday.