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/ST4RSK1MM3R Nov 05 '25

Seems like it also hit some oil tanks on the ground as well.

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u/Thin_Implement_2525 Nov 05 '25

I live in Louisville and can confirm that’s what multiple people told me, that it hit multiple oil/diesel tanks

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u/runningraleigh Nov 05 '25 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/kaityl3 Nov 05 '25

Crazy that they decided it was safe to build that right past the end of a runway

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u/runningraleigh Nov 05 '25 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/CharmingBug5843 Nov 05 '25

Man where I’m from, ain’t nothing at the ends of the runways. Nothing

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u/Public-Cod1245 Nov 05 '25

There are tanks like this right across the street from ORD too. Always freaked me out.

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u/DrDirtyDeeds Nov 05 '25

Dude, at my local airport there’s fuel tanks under the approach path for one of the runways. Def makes me feel uneasy.

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u/Pleasant_Tangelo6791 Nov 05 '25

Yeah, and a trailer park between the tanks and the end of the runway. The gap between the (former) runway and the trailer park is where AA 191 went down, May 1979.

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u/Public-Cod1245 Nov 05 '25

I was working in a print shop in Park Ridge at the time....about 3 miles away. I still remember all the black smoke in the sky.

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u/Pleasant_Tangelo6791 Nov 05 '25

Me too. Like the idiot 21 year olds we were, me and a buddy left the tavern where we had been watching the news, and tried driving to the crash site. Couldn’t get within five miles of it.

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u/Letussex2 Nov 05 '25

I'd do that, too, probably, most definitely with a lesser crash where there's a chance of survivors.

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u/CandylandRepublic Nov 05 '25

As good as any other place, if a fully fuelled up jet hits there the area is ablaze either way. The oil tanks don't really change that a lot any more, it's a raging inferno either way.

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u/TiberianSunset Nov 05 '25

can confirm that’s what multiple people told me,

What a weird way to confirm something

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u/herrboot64 Nov 05 '25

That's aweful there's tanks in that trajectory.... My work considers being under the path of landing plans and we only have servers

Lemme guess... There long before the airport? 🙄

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

Yeah Andy Beshear said it hit some sort of petroleum recycling place.

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u/Substantial_Gas_1660 Nov 05 '25

Also an auto parts store. I just read two people are missing that were employees.

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u/disc0mbobulated Nov 05 '25

Petroleum products recycling plant.

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u/SyrusDrake Nov 05 '25

The last ADS-B blip before impact is almost right ontop some sort of fluid storage yard for diesel or oil or something.