Officials scour charred site of Kentucky UPS plane crash
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The ashes have settled over the charred Louisville neighborhood where nine people remain missing and families cling to hope as investigators comb through the wreckage of Tuesday’s fatal UPS cargo plane crash.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency after a fiery UPS plane crash at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport resulted in at least nine deaths and 11 injuries.
The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday as investigators gathered information to determine why the aircraft caught fire and lost an engine on takeoff.
Police are responding to reports of a plane crash near Louisville International Airport. The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department says in an online post Tuesday that injuries have been reported.
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured after a UPS plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville International Airport on Tuesday.