PANICKED 911 dispatch calls from the UPS plane crash in Kentucky last month reveal the horror scenes from the ground as 14 people died.
Over a thousand horrified onlookers called the emergency services as the massive cargo plane crashed on takeoff and erupted into a giant fireball at Louisville International Airport on November 4.
Now, just over a month later, some of the 911 calls to MetroSafe from the night of the crash have been released.
“Oh my god there’s so many people who just probably died,” a stunned witness told dispatch in one audio shared with WLKY News.
In the background of the call, a man can be heard saying to the woman, “look at it” as the plane erupted in a fiery blaze and collided with two businesses including a petroleum recycling plant.
“God I don’t want to look at it. Oh my god. Oh please just get away from me,” she said.
Earlier in the call she could be heard shouting “it’s going up. Oil catches on fire. Get away.”
In another call shared with WDRB News, said: “Oh my god an airplane, a UPS airplane just crashed! I’m freaking out.
“So many people are probably hurt,” the caller frantically told 911.
Over a month after the horrific crash, clean up crews are still working on the decimated area.
A three-year-old girl, a mom of two, and three pilots were among the 14 killed in the devastating crash.
Twenty-three people also suffered injuries from the fireball explosion caused in part by the more than 38,000 gallons of fuel inside the aircraft at the time.
An initial report published by the National Transportation Safety Board after the incident revealed that the left pylon of one of the plane’s engines had “fatigue cracks” and suffered an “overstress failure”.
Bone-chilling surveillance images captured the left engine and pylon separating from the wing as the plane lifted from the ground.
The craft burst into flames, lifted 30 feet in the air, and barely cleared the fence at the end of the runway before clipping the roof of a UPS Supply Chain Solutions 3,000 feet away, altitude data revealed.
It then crashed into a storage yard and two other buildings, including a petroleum-recycling facility.
Louisville plane crash victims
- Captain Dana Diamond, 62
- Captain Richard Wartenberg, 57
- First Officer Lee Truitt, 45
- Angela Anderson, 45
- Carlos Fernandez, 52
- Louisnes Fedon, 47
- Kimberly Asa, 3 (granddaughter of Louisnes Fedon)
- Trinadette “Trina” Chavez, 37
- Tony Crain, 65
- John Loucks, 52
- John Spray, 45
- Matthew Sweets, 37
- Ella Petty Whorton, 31
- Megan Washburn, 35
The facility was completely reduced to rubble by the flames.
City officials called it an “unimaginable tragedy”.
