mercredi 14 août 2013

Crash landing of a UPS cargo plane

Birmingham (Alabama / USA) - A cargo plane of the airline cargo UPS (United Parcel Services) crashed moments before landing on the Birmingham (Alabama) International Airport in circumstances still completely unknown .

The plane, an Airbus A300F4-622R, registered N155UP, UPS1354 flight that had to make the connection between the Louisville (Kentucky) and the Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport with a load of cargo, the nature n 'was not given and the only crew members on board, was on approach to 4:50 local time, when, in circumstances that remain unclear and for unknown reasons, the aircraft crashed on the outskirts of the city Tarrant, crashing, it seems, in several pieces.

Accident à l'atterrissage d'un avion-cargo de UPS

The first images show that the aircraft caught fire crashing in a field some distance from the airport. The rescue went on site but there is no official information on the accident or the presence of victims. The information is currently conditional. Several explosions were heard and the presence of large flames prevented rescuers from approaching. It is said that debris spread over a distance of about one kilometer.

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