UPS, Louisville and the cargo plane
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Nine people remain missing after a UPS plane departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky on Tuesday crashed, killing at least 12 people.
Former colleagues are mourning three pilots killed in the UPS cargo plane crash near the Louisville, Kentucky, airport, as relatives of a badly burned man who was pulled from the wreckage confirm he’s also among the 14 who died.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday issued an order prohibiting MD-11 planes from flying for now, pending inspection, after a fiery crash this week of a UPS MD-11 cargo freighter killed at least 14 people in Louisville,
The UPS cargo plane crew tried to control the aircraft for about 25 seconds before it crashed into a ball of flames shortly after taking off on Tuesday.