"The Engine Fell Off" | UPS Cargo Plane CRASH VIDEO | N259UP

This is insane.

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>> Holy smokes. Literally, this is the

crash footage from the ground of a

truck. You could see the truck driver

sitting here on his phone. This is

actual dash cam footage of this UPS

cargo aircraft with now four confirmed

deaths and 11 injuries being reported.

This is actual footage of the crash, not

artificial intelligence. I frankly I

wish it was, but these are real lives

that are being affected by this crash.

And in this video, we're going to talk

about new information that just came out

on this aircraft crash.

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Oh my [ __ ] god.

>> This is absolutely heartbreaking, folks.

Today is November 4th and four people

are dead and uh 11 are injured. We just

had a catastrophic detachment of the

left engine with the remnants of it

found on the runway. This potentially

then led to a catastrophic not only loss

of thrust but likely system control,

maybe even a compressor stall of the

third engine at the tail, leaving the

aircraft potentially with only one

viable engine. Frankly, this was not a

survivable accident. This is a McDougall

Douglas MD11

tail number November 259iner uniform

Papa. It crashed shortly after takeoff

from Kilo Sierra Delta Foxtrot. That is

the Kentucky Louisville airport. And

folks, this is what the aircraft looks

like. It's operated by uh KM. It's been

used for transatlantic fights flights.

This is an aircraft that has a long

reputation. And this air specific model

that crashed today has been manufactured

relentlessly in the '90s. And the very

aircraft that crashed today was

manufactured in 1991,

which yes does make it 34 years old. And

that is raising some questions about

this aircraft potentially too old to

still be operating. What was the

maintenance history and the status of

this? Here it is. You can see it. the

Macdonald Douglas MD11 Foxtrot

manufacturer year 1991 with engines

certified April 28th 2007. Those

aircraft engines therefore certified

over 18 years ago raising questions

about the potential airworthiness

actually of them and the maintenance

history of those. But we know that this

aircraft ended up taking off from runway

17 right and it looks like they ended up

taking the entire available runway that

they could use from the taxiway alpha 8

for a full length departure. Now, it is

possible that they could have

backtracked on the runway and turned

around over here to pick up additional

runway length, but it does not seem

likely that that would have made any

difference given the complete and

catastrophic detachment of their left

engine, their number one engine. their

number one engine detaching

unfortunately which is pictured here is

unfortunately something that has

happened before with devastating

consequences. In fact, if we study what

happened with American Airlines of

flight 191, we could find that this DC10

ended up killing 271

passengers as it crashed on May 25th,

1979,

plus killing two people on the ground.

Now, I want to be clear with that 271

passenger number that does include the

crew in fairness to the crew and the

pilots and the passengers. That was a

devastating aircraft incident where

engine one also detached due to a

maintenance failure. A loss of power in

the cockpit led to the cutting off of

the cockpit voice recorder and the

engine separating on the runway. The

problem with an engine separating like

this though is that it's not just that

you end up losing an engine. It's what

all of the other impacts or side effects

are that happen after you have an engine

that just tears off of the wing. First

of all, here's another image of the

engine cowling. So, it looks like almost

the engine cowling. So, the front or the

cover of the aircraft uh of the engine

component ripped off separately from the

actual turbine of the aircraft. So you

had sort of a multi-stage

tearing off of this engine, a complete

catastrophic failure of this aircraft.

And the problem isn't just losing that

engine. This is more than just losing

thrust on an engine. It's that you now

have a hole where that wing is. You've

potentially now severed hydraulic lines,

which unfortunately ruined the

functionality potentially of your

rudder, which is already challenged

enough when you lose one engine in a

three engine hightail configuration.

But you also potentially risk stabbing

the fuel tanks or somehow igniting the

fuel tanks, leading to exactly the

incident that we saw of the aircraft

moving down the runway on fire. This was

a complete and catastrophic failure and

I don't think that there was anything

that the pilots could have done to avoid

the fatal crash that we saw. Now, keep

this in mind. If you look really

closely, which is hard to do right here,

you could actually see what looks like a

potential compressor stall in the

engines or sorry, in the one engine

that's left. Now, it's very hard to tell

because obviously we end up getting to

the end of the video and the aircraft

cartwheels uh into the u uh the the

facility at the end of the runway. But

it's unclear if what we see here, these

flashes right there are compressor

stalls on the number three engine, which

is the one on the tail section, or if

there's something else. But that flash

right there suggests a potential

starvation of air flow to that center

engine in the back. Now, this is a

different kind of aircraft than what I'm

licensed to fly. It is a threeine

aircraft. If this engine rips off,

remember, not only do you now have

massive yaw forces to the left as you're

now no longer asymmetrically balanced,

but you're pushing from the right. So,

you're really yawing that plane to the

left. you potentially have a hole in

that wing. So now you're losing lift on

that left wing. You're hoping your final

two engines can keep you afloat. But

what happens? That third engine ends up

ingesting all of the fumes in the

exhaust, which doesn't provide rich

enough air flow, rich enough oxygen at a

cool enough temperature to actually

provide flight performance for this jet

engine. And what do you get? a stall or

a disruption of air flow in the engine,

which then makes you lose thrust on not

just the engine that's gone, physically

gone, but now on your second engine,

which means you now have an aircraft

that is potentially and likely fully

loaded going from Kentucky to Hawaii

over five 4,600 mile distance plus 15%

reserve at least, maybe even more since

you'll be flying over the ocean without

a very convenient place to land if you

needed to. So, you're likely max takeoff

weight on cargo, likely max takeoff on

uh fuel, and you only have one likely

functional engine. Now, I know that

seems confusing. Why would you need cold

or cooler air? Well, air uh when we get

to actually compressing air and

combusting it, aircraft perform any kind

of aircraft engine which whether it's a

propeller aircraft uh or a jet engine

will perform better with cooler air on

the outside. And the cooler the air is,

the more thrust we can create, the more

powerful our engines are. We take off in

a hot summer day in Vegas, for example,

and it's 110° outside, we need even more

runway length just to be able to take

off. Now, aircraft are certified to fly

with one engine in operative. But when

you have two engines in operative, like

what we likely see here, there's almost

nothing you can do anymore. But it's not

just that you have two engines in

operative. It's that one likely ignited

your fuel tanks on the left and left a

hole in your aircraft, which means your

controllability, as much as you would

like to follow procedures here, would be

futile. And so it's no surprise that the

aircraft loses lift entirely and then

cartwheels as we saw in the image at the

beginning of the video, which is

absolutely devastating because these

pilots were doomed from the moment they

hit their decision speed V1 and they

were already on fire or after V1 they

lost their engine. We don't know exactly

when that engine was lost, but we saw

images of that engine on the ground

along with the cowling. Now, at this

point, it's too early to tell if this is

uh the uh you know, the engine, you

know? I mean, it's it's obviously more

than just the cowling, right? The

cowling is just sort of like the trim

piece, right? So, it's obviously like

the cowling plus the cooling compartment

in it. It's it's almost like the front

third of the engine, the whole sort of

like inlet section just ripped off and

then you had the actual turbine

component fall off separately. Again,

that's going to leave a terrible

situation for you to actually be able to

control the aircraft. Almost impossible.

And it's really well depicted and I

encourage you to watch this in this

YouTube video right here. It's the day

the sky fell. The tragic story of

American Airlines flight 191. We can

watch a very just brief moment here to

give you a sample.

>> He's not talking to me.

>> Losing power.

>> Of course, they're not talking because

we aviate first.

>> Bank.

>> Passengers have a frightening view of

the ground below.

>> What's going on?

The pilots can't get the altitude they

need, and they're banking further and

further to the left.

>> Go right. Go right. Come on. Come on.

>> There's literally nothing these pilots

likely could have done. Now, in this

DC10 crash, we end up finding out that

the root problem was a maintenance

failure. Now, the maintenance failure

here was very interesting because it

goes back to a history of American

Airlines actually wanting to save labor

and reducing the amount of time it takes

to disassemble the engines. And rather

than disassembling all of the engine

components individually, they'd actually

hold the engines on a forklift. But

forklift operators wouldn't be able to

visually see where the engine and where

the structural components of the plane

were and they were only guided by voice

or hand signals or both. Uh and

unfortunately in such a case damage

could occur to the actual mounting

brackets of the engines and that damage

which in the case of the DCT10 1979

crash that American Airlines flight 191

in that case we ended up finding an NTSB

conclusion that the aircraft had

structural damage that got worse every

single takeoff and landing until it

finally failed in the catastrophy. roic

manner that it did. Is it possible

that's exactly what happened here?

Absolutely. Especially since this

aircraft has a flight history of

multiple different uh flights over the

last month. There are some rumors and

keep in mind all of the information here

is still to be verified. We we are not

on the ground there, so we can't verify

everything. But we can do is try to

piece together parts of the puzzle. And

we can see this aircraft was actually

quite active at flying. We just had a

1-hour flight from Baltimore. Before

that, we had another one-hour flight.

Before that, we had a flight from

Ontario. Then we had Oakland uh

international. Uh then back to SDF,

Louisville, Kentucky here, Miami, Tampa,

Portland, Ontario, continuously coming

back to SDF almost as if this was home

base here. Uh and so this had a very

rich history of flying. So, it seems

likely, although of course we won't know

until the uh NTSB really gets to the

bottom of this and we get more data or

cockpit voice recorder and otherwise, it

seems likely that there was some kind of

failure that just grew over time that

maybe looked okay on pilot walkound or

on visual inspection, but was just some

form of maintenance failure that grew

over time. or maybe not even a

maintenance failure. It could

theoretically also have just been a part

failure over time, which of course some

will argue that is indeed synonymous

with a maintenance failure. Who knows?

This is an older aircraft and

unfortunately

this is a devastating outcome. This is a

devastating outcome where there was

really nothing these pilots could have

done to save this aircraft. And it is

devastating to see the cartwheel here.

But this cartwheel is actually exactly

what you would anticipate happening

because you just can't control this

aircraft when you have a hole in your

wing on the side. And it's likely that

wing scraped the ground, broke off here

leading to the initial explosion. And

then of course the absolute terror and

horror of an aircraft crashing right in

front of you. You could see it in the

individual's reaction here. Uh and then

of course the subsequent explosion of

jet fuel and you could see the different

way that jet fuel is burning at very

high temperature. Look at those the the

these different colors of of burn that

we're getting here. Uh very very spooky

uh and and bizarre and and certainly

highly emotionally uh charged here. Very

devastating. The questions now are of

course going to come down to what were

the maintenance logs? There are some

suggestions that the aircraft

potentially went through an extended

period of maintenance between September

3rd to October 18th. Why was the

aircraft out of service for what appears

to be around 6 weeks? Did it just come

out of service and did it then go back

to work for the last about 2 weeks

leading to additional stresses and

stresses and stresses uh that could have

led to those fatigue cracks? Who knows?

But it's unfortunate because this is

eerily similar to the disaster of that

same style of incident that we saw in

flight 191 where you also had uh on the

runway uh engine components uh

indicating that you had this

catastrophic failure at takeoff. Take a

look at this. Here's one of the images

showing you components screwed across

the runway here. And it certainly

doesn't help that some suggest there was

a recycling plant potentially with even

more petroleum tanks

in the crash distance of the actual

damage. Now, it's unclear if that had

anything to do with it. Uh there are

some folks posting that this was near

the area but not necessarily near the

actual crash site. Who knows? We've seen

a lot of different footage here and

we're just going to have to wait and see

to get more information on exactly what

happened. But this is terrible. And now

we have a little bit more information

and I'm sure even more will come out

[music] in time. But in my opinion,

there was nothing anybody could have

done here once that plane was on fire.

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>> Kevin Pra there, financial analyst and

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