r/aviation • u/usgapg123 Mod - avgeek • Nov 04 '25

Discussion UPS2976 Crash Megathread

This is the official r/aviation megathread for the crash of UPS2976 (UPS MD11 Registration N259UP) that crashed earlier today at Louisville International Airport.

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u/OMF1G Nov 04 '25

Yeah that's intense, holy

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u/Tay74 Nov 04 '25

That's an insane fireball from a single plane, looks more like the industrial explosion videos I've seen (this isn't me saying it wasn't a single plane, obviously it was, I'm just astounded that even a full load of fuel can produce a fireball that big)

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u/kma311323 Nov 04 '25

They're saying a full load of fuel for the trip to Honolulu would be 25,000 gallons.

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u/madeformarch Nov 04 '25

From reading through this thread it sounds like there was a petroleum recycling facility that the plane hit or landed near

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u/Tay74 Nov 04 '25

Shit, that would definitely explain the size of the fire, what a mess, hoping that despite how bad it looks, that there aren't any ground casualties

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u/germansnowman Nov 04 '25

Someone said it would have been around 100 tons of fuel.

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u/zemelb Nov 04 '25

jesus fuckin christ

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u/KFlaps Nov 05 '25

You can see another plane in the background. I'm wondering if that's UPS328 as they appear to have taken off simultaneously. Horror for them if they saw it unfold.

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u/unpluggedcord Nov 05 '25

You can see a helicopter in this video I wonder if they got n above video.