{"id":311871,"date":"2025-11-05T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311871"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:03:33","slug":"ups-flight-2976-crashes-and-explodes-near-louisville-airport-after-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311871","title":{"rendered":"UPS Flight 2976 Crashes and Explodes Near Louisville Airport After Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A UPS Airlines MD-11 cargo plane, Flight 2976, crashed into an industrial area near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday evening around 5:15 p.m. local time shortly after departing for Honolulu, Hawaii, erupting into a massive fireball that ignited multiple buildings and scattered debris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities issued a five-mile shelter-in-place order due to potential toxic fumes from the cargo and the 280,000 gallons of fuel on board, with first responders battling the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"426\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 426;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/uNBdCXEwttdC6H5.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA and NTSB have launched an investigation into the cause, and no casualties have been confirmed among the three crew members or on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities issued a five-mile shelter-in-place order due to potential toxic fumes from the cargo and the 280,000 gallons of fuel on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":311874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,35,4350],"tags":[18663,18662],"class_list":["post-311871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-breaking-news","category-ups","tag-louisville-airport","tag-ups-flight-2976"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311875,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311871\/revisions\/311875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}