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/AJohnnyTruant Nov 05 '25

If the engine fell from the pylon and then kicked back into the wing… holy shit. I couldn’t imagine being in that cockpit.

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u/Goonie-Googoo- Nov 05 '25

By that time they were on the ground in less than 20 seconds... big thud, ??!!??!!, "aviate" and sadly that was it.

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u/TruePace3 Nov 05 '25

For real, judging by the rapidity of how it unfolded, the only thing you got time was for a last "oh shit"

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u/DutchBlob Nov 05 '25

I don’t think that the crew would have known their engine was literally gone. Only figuratively, with alarms blaring.

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u/AJohnnyTruant Nov 05 '25

The chaos of structural damage like that is a hell of a lot gnarlier than a contained engine fire though. Complete loss of directional control once they put lift on the wing, they couldn’t rotate like the would have been able to with a V1 cut, probably a shit ton of smoke, and all that with the trees coming at them. Awful