UPS MD11 crash

[69 Sleeper Bee]

The engine detached from the plane smoldering on the side of the runway.

 

[cr8crshr]

Just sad!!! I have had many USAF Reserve Pilot and Engineer aviation friends who have flown for them, along with some Flight Dispatchers who worked at their hub in KY. Hope none were on that jet and pray for the families of those that paid the ultimate...RIP...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[GTXDAN]

Those planes are a handful in adverse conditions and several have crashed from it. Fed-Ex lost one in Narita/Tokyo on landing because of windy conditions. They are hard to maintain as they are complicated too work on. Fuel system is a bear as the horizontal stab has fuel in it and there is a computer to maintain weight & balance as the fuel burns off. #2 engine is a bitch to work on and even harder to change. We flew 15 for a while and got rid of them as they were expensive to operate. When new they never got the fuel efficiency Douglas advertised so we had to put aux fuel tanks in the forward cargo to make it to Asia, but when new they would carry as much cargo as a 747 with just 3 engines, that's why the cargo airlines like them. If that picture is #2 engine then there's the smoking gun.

 

[Budnicks]

There is video of it before it hit. Appeared that maybe the center engine over the tail was on fire.

I saw a video on TV, of the left wing,
one of the engines was on fire & falling off,
while attempting to take of

16 missing & several dead, last I saw several hrs ago

hit a fuel (or other combustibles) sort of recycling center
started a huge fire on top of all the fuel onboard the plane when crashed

sad stuff
my heartfelt condolences goes out to the innocent employees lost
on the ground, they didn't even know it was coming (what a horrid way to die)
& the people on the plane too, all lost
RIP