New aerial video shows charred path of UPS plane that crashed in Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- New aerial video shows an up-close look at the crash site from Tuesday's UPS plane crash in Louisville that killed 13 people.

The National Transportation Safety Board posted the drone video Friday on YouTube, showing the path of destruction and debris leading from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport through nearby businesses and scrap yards.

The video shows the charred path UPS Flight 2976 took when it tried to take off after its left engine fell off on the runway, causing a fire to start on the wing. The plane banked left and dove into the ground just south of the airport's west runways, skidding in a ball of fire, finally, stopping near Grade Lane.

The plane was fully loaded with fuel for a nine-hour flight to Honolulu from UPS Worldport when it went down around 5:15 p.m. Nov. 4. According to documents WDRB requested from the Federal Aviation Administration, the MD-11 jet built by McDonnell-Douglas in 1991 had major maintenance completed just months before this devastating crash.

In a news conference Thursday in Louisville, NTSB member Todd Inman said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder was quickly flown Wednesday to Washington, and the information was successfully extracted. A transcript with "pertinent information" will be released soon, but Inman said the NTSB doesn't release audio in these situations. The speed and altitude readings were collected at 5:13:32 Tuesday.

On Thursday, Inman said investigators walked runways 17L and 17R at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport and found multiple pieces of engine fan blades as well as the main component of the left engine.

Investigators have reviewed airport security video and said it showed the left engine detaching from the plane during the takeoff.

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