United States District Court Judge David Hale said Friday that UPS "failed to show that its principal place of business is not Kentucky," therefore remanding the case back to Jefferson Circuit Court.
The new documents show UPS never required enhanced inspections of the engine mount part that failed, even after Boeing recommended those additional checks years earlier.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo plane, built in 1991, went down around 5:15 p.m. Nov. 4, 2025, after its left wing caught fire.
Newly released 911 calls from the day UPS Flight 2976 crashed in Louisville reveal the panic and chaos that ensued, with witnesses describing the plane going straight down in flames.
The Federal Aviation Administration recently grounded MD-11 aircraft, and now the agency has expanded that grounding order.
The flights will begin this fall, starting Oct. 19.
The offer could impact a $2.9 billion deal already in the works between Spirit and Frontier Airlines.
UPS added more than a dozen jets to its fleet.
The aircraft maker has been hit by hundreds of canceled orders as airlines struggle with a plunge in demand for air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Liftoff will be from Florida's Kennedy Space Center — marking the first time a rocket will carry astronauts into orbit from the United States since NASA's Space Shuttle program retired in 2011.