The fiery final seconds of a doomed UPS cargo plane have been revealed in chilling new footage showing an engine tearing away from the wing just after takeoff.
The left engine and pylon are seen separating from UPS Flight 2976 before flying over the wing as flames burst from the aircraft.The cargo plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 4, 2025, killing 15 people. The Boeing MD-11F had just taken off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when disaster struck.
Newly released surveillance footage shown by the National Transportation Safety Board captured the horrifying moment the engine detached. The video shows the left engine and its pylon breaking away from the wing seconds after rotation.
Attach point crack was covered with high heat caulk. If not covered the crack would have been visible to the naked eye.
ReplyDeleteEngine mount pylon structure was cracked & failed. There is an unbelievable amount of stress on the attachments and the surrounding structure.
ReplyDeleteVery similar to the American DC-10 crash at ORD....that was a incorrect maintenance procedure that impacted the pins.
ReplyDeletevery similar to American DC-10 at ORD - bad maintenance procedure impacted pins
ReplyDeleteMetal fatigue of the pylon ... a known issue on the MD-11F. The failure was Attributed to poor maintenance & upgrades supposedly
ReplyDeleteFull breakdown by one of the best aviator channels on youtube.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5OQzpilyag
Known issue..
DEI problem at Boeing? Foreign engineers who work for a fraction of what native-born engineers are /were paid?
DeleteThe spherical bearing part of the engine mount had cracked, and it eventually allowed the engine to separate from the wing under load. After the crash, cracks were discovered in other planes.
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Muhammad Ali International Airport ...FFS.
ReplyDeleteMD-11 is McDonnell Douglas, not Boeing.
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American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on May 25, 1979, near Chicago O’Hare Airport, killing all 271 on board and two on the ground, making it the deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
Overview of the Accident
American Airlines Flight 191 was a scheduled domestic flight from Chicago O’Hare to Los Angeles. On May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, registered N110AA, began its takeoff from runway 32R at O’Hare. During rotation, the left engine and its pylon detached from the wing, severing hydraulic lines and damaging a section of the wing’s leading edge. This caused the outboard slats to retract uncommandedly, creating a severe lift imbalance between the wings. The aircraft rolled sharply to the left, reaching a bank angle of 112°, and crashed into an open field near a trailer park just 4,600 feet from the runway end
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Causes
The engine separation was traced to damage in the pylon structure caused by improper maintenance procedures at American Airlines. Investigators found that a forklift had damaged the engine mount during an engine change two months prior, weakening the attachment. The NTSB concluded that this maintenance error, combined with the aerodynamic effects of the damaged wing, made the crash inevitable once the engine detached