“As a precaution and in the interest of safety, we have made the decision to temporarily ground our MD-11 fleet,” a UPS spokesman said in an emailed statement to Reuters. The MD-11 makes up about nine percent of the company’s fleet, the spokesman added. The grounding takes effect immediately. The news was first reported by NBC News.
BREAKING: A UPS aircraft just crashed near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky.
Does this have anything to do with the lack of air traffic controllers. pic.twitter.com/f6M6wkSKe2
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) November 4, 2025
What happened?
On Tuesday night, a UPS cargo plane bound for Honolulu crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville International Airport. On Friday, US investigators said that as the warning sounded in the cockpit, the three UPS pilots were trying to maintain control of the flight.
Although UPS Flight 2976 took off without a hitch, a repeating warning tone was heard on the cockpit voice recorder just 37 seconds after the crew applied thrust for takeoff, National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman told reporters.
Boeing, which has owned the MD-11 program since merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, and FedEx, which also uses MD-11 planes for cargo operations, did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
(Vijesti.ba)
