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The death toll in the explosion that saw a UPS cargo plane lose an engine and burst into flames, has risen to 13, Craig Greenberg, the Louisville mayor, has confirmed as UPS released the names of the three victims on the plane.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn my way to the Teamsters\u2019 vigil, I learned of a 13th person that died as a result of the UPS flight 2976 plane crash. My heart is with the families, friends and colleagues of all who were lost in this week\u2019s tragedy. We will get through this together,\u201d Greenberg wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n
A statement from UPS listed the pilots aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 as Captain Richard Wartenberg, First Officer Lee Truitt, and International Relief Officer Captain Dana Diamond.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hearts go out to every UPSer who has been impacted and all in our Louisville community \u2013 supporting you and ensuring you receive the care and resources you need is our priority,\u201d the company\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n
<\/span>CCTV captures moment UPS cargo plane crashes near Kentucky airport \u2013 video<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur hope is that we have located all of the victims at this point. But again, we do not know,\u201d Greenberg said earlier in the day.<\/p>\n A federal investigator announced earlier on Wednesday the UPS cargo plane\u2019s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off shortly after takeoff from the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport, causing the plane to crash and explode into a fireball.<\/p>\n The National Transportation Safety Board has said it is investigating the plane\u2019s maintenance history which was in Texas for repairs weeks before the crash.<\/p>\n Reuters reported flight tracking data showing the plane was on the ground in San Antonio, Texas, from 3 September to 18 October.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are aware that this aircraft was there in San Antonio,\u201d said Todd Inman, an NTSB member, on Thursday, without giving a specific time frame. \u201cWe will look at every piece of maintenance that was done, even from the San Antonio time, all the way to the date of the flight.\u201d<\/p>\n The cockpit voice recorder and data recorder were recovered, and the engine was discovered on the airfield.<\/p>\n The recorders \u2013 known as black boxes \u2013 were built to withstand crash impacts and intense heat from fires, and they appeared to be intact when located amid the crash debris. Investigators plan on reviewing data from the black boxes.<\/p>\n Inman said the plane\u2019s final data recordings showed an altitude of 475 ft, and a speed of 210 mph before the crash.<\/p>\n Singapore-based ST Engineering, which said it provides airframe maintenance for UPS\u2019s MD-11 aircraft and operates a repair facility in San Antonio, declined to comment, but said it would cooperate fully when relevant authorities reached out to it.<\/p>\n According to Federal Aviation Administration records dated 18 September, a crack on a structural piece inside the center wing fuel tank required repairs.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, UPS Worldport operations resumed Wednesday night with its Next Day Air, or night sort, operation, spokesperson Jim Mayer said. All three runways at Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport were also open again.<\/p>\n The UPS package handling facility in Louisville is the company\u2019s largest. The hub employs more than 20,000 people in the region, handles 300 flights daily and sorts more than 400,000 packages an hour.<\/p>\n A candlelight vigil was held on the evening of 6 November by local Teamsters Union, which represents workers at the Louisville airport, the company\u2019s largest air cargo hub.<\/p>\n Teamsters Local 89, which represents UPS workers, began the vigil with a moment of silence at 5.14pm, the approximate time of the crash two days earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cThis incident was so sudden, so unexpected,\u201d the mayor told the crowd of 200. \u201cNo one had a chance to say goodbye to any of those who we have lost.\u201d<\/p>\n Associated Press contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The death toll in the explosion that saw a UPS cargo plane lose an engine and burst into flames, has risen to 13, Craig Greenberg, the Louisville mayor, has confirmed as UPS released the names of the three victims on the plane. \u201cOn my way to the Teamsters\u2019 vigil, I learned of a 13th person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3480,1872,376,4451,4994,6276,345,2975,18744],"class_list":{"0":"post-32478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-kentucky","12":"tag-louisville","13":"tag-plane","14":"tag-rises","15":"tag-toll","16":"tag-ups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}