Absolutely horrendous fiery crash of a UPS DC11 cargo plane with 38,000 gallons of fuel onboard in Louisville yesterday. Apparently due to an uncontained catastrophic loss of the left engine. Nine deaths and numerous serious injuries reported so far with several people still unaccounted for. The video shows numerous viewpoints.
Nasty incident.
Absolutely horrible, the wife is flying to Arizona tomorrow so the usual discussion ensued, i told her safest time to fly in my opinion is right after a crash as everyone is super focused on safety. Plus it was a cargo plane.
Two weeks on my own - 10 years ago it would have been party time, these days I am just happy I get to watch whatever I want on streaming and dont have to be cognizant of date night/quality time LOL
Just flew back from Washington State, and this my worst nightmare flying several times a year.
Ha ha LOL
Ah that sprite brings back memories. That character is Whip from the King of Fighters. They used that sprite for her from KOF 99 until KOF XI.
I haven’t the foggiest. Googled “whip gif” 
I was a big Neo Geo guy back in the day. I had the whole ROM collection on my old desktop and a really nice arcade stick. Plus Neo Geo shirts and hats and stuff. Never owned a Neo Geo itself since ya know you needed to be rich to own either the home console version or the arcade machine and games were 200 dollars a piece back in the day for it.
I should have gone Castlevania for the sake of economics.
Let us know if you have any delays from the democratic shutdown. Thanksgiving is gonna be a disaster I hope the vote to open it by then.
She had no issues, got to Tucson with no delays. But Indy airport is on the list for tomorrow.
Flying the day after a major plane crash can be a bit unnerving. I still recall landing in Anchorage many years ago when the pilot made a poor landing, bouncing back into the air twice before settling in. On the second bounce, we were passing the still smoldering remains of a cargo plane that had crashed earlier in the day sitting off to the side of the runway. 
Yea that’s got to be freaky. That’s like driving past a horrible car wreck in the rain. It’s very bad foreboding in that situation.
It was. The good thing was, the flight crew had not been injured, but the plane had caught fire after it skidded off the runway and a load of live cattle on their way to Japan burned up. I think that was what was still smoking as we bounced by.
Best wishes.
It now appears that it was not an engine failure but rather that the left engine mounting pylon failed causing the engine to separate from the wing. I do not remember this ever happening before on this class of aircraft.
I’m skeptical about this finding and I’ll tell you why. What caused the number 3 engine to fail? If it was just the pylon that failed, what happened to the #3 engine? I thought the engine failed, broke apart, and pieces of it harmed the #3 engine.
Did you look at those six photos? The engine was clearly rotating upwards before there were any flames (photo #2.) And debris from that violent action could easily be what damaged number 2 engine on the vertical stabilizer. The story also said that stress cracks were found in the parts of pylon stature recovered from the wreckage.
This is a schematic (not specifically an MD11) of the attachment to the wing. A total failure of either joint of the bottom strut (#3) under full thrust would cause the engine to rotate and depart from the wing as you see in those photos. Note, the upper strut is there only to support the weight of the engine. The other two connections transfer the thrust force to the wing.
That crash looked just like something out of a Michael Bay movie.
