The crash ignited an explosion and massive fire that left a thick plume of black smoke over the area.
A fireball erupts near airport property after reports of a plane crash at Louisville International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A large UPS cargo plane with three people aboard crashed Tuesday while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, igniting an explosion and massive fire that left a thick plume of black smoke over the area.
The plane crashed about 5:15 p.m. as it was departing for Honolulu from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.“My understanding is that there were about 280,000 gallons of fuel on the plane, and so that is extreme reason for concern in so many different ways,” Mayor Craig Greenberg told WLKY-TV. UPS’s largest package handling facility is in Louisville. The hub employs thousands of workers, has 300 daily flights and sorts more than 400,000 packages an hour.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a post on X that information would be shared as it was available.Talks to end the government shutdown, on track to become the longest ever, intensify in Washington11 new paperbacks to curl up with this winter, from Sally Rooney, Alex Van Halen and others
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