The Bad PlaceNPR Topics: News | NTSB hearing will probe cause of fiery UPS jet crash that killed 15 in Louisville by Joel Rose
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The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two‑day fact‑finding hearing on the deadly November crash of UPS Flight 2976, a McDonnell Douglas MD‑11 cargo plane that fell just 30 feet after takeoff from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing all three pilots and twelve other occupants; investigators are focusing on a cracked spherical bearing in the engine‑mount system—a defect Boeing warned about in 2011 but initially deemed non‑critical—while the FAA had grounded all MD‑11s until Boeing issued new inspection and repair instructions, after which FedEx has begun returning its MD‑11s to service but UPS has decided to retire its entire MD‑11 fleet in favor of newer Boeing 767 aircraft.
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