Hello and welcome to episode 344 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz. Good seeing you this week, Ian. That was a nice surprise. That was a nice thing that we made

happen. Thanks for coming over and we enjoyed a meal together and you entertained my kids,

which was very, very kind of you. I think you got an extra half a breath in that day. Maybe.

Just distracting, you know, the 19 of them, I think, at one point they were

there. But thanks for dinner. That was nice. My pleasure. Sometimes we actually see each other in person.

Sometimes. Sometimes. You're back in New York and we are back. What a week, man. What a week.

It's only Wednesday. We record this on Wednesday,

and this has been the longest month so far, this three days. Let's start in Louisville.

UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashed very shortly after takeoff yesterday on November 4th in Louisville. The MD11 freighter aircraft

registered November 259 uniformed Papa, was departing Louisville for Honolulu, fully loaded for the

eight and a half hour flight. when what we know now is the left engine,

the number one engine separated from the aircraft.

And based on visual evidence captured at the scene, we believe the number two engines,

so the tail mountedmounted engine suffered a

possible compressor stall. The aircraft managed to gain height off the runway, clear the airport

fence, then struck a UPS warehouse just outside the airport perimeter and then impacted the ground in an industrial

area just south of the airport. The takeoff role began at 2212 UTC, becoming airborne at about

2213. The final position that we received was at 221330, and that was south of the airport again.

The post-crash fire extended a half mile because the aircraft struck a waste oil recycling facility.

Oh, jeez.

And between the amount of fuel on board the aircraft, which was loaded for an eight and a half hour flight and the waste oil recycling facility,

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