Smoke and flames rise as a UPS cargo plane crashes in Louisville, Kentucky, US Nov 4, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from social media video. Kentucky Truck Parts & Service/via REUTERSSmoke and flames rise as a UPS cargo plane crashes in Louisville, Kentucky, US Nov 4, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from social media video. Kentucky Truck Parts & Service/via REUTERSUS federal safety investigators have located the "black box" recorders from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from the airport at Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12 people, officials said on Wednesday. UPS, which had halted package-sorting operations in Louisville after the crash, said it was resuming operations at its Worldport air cargo hub on Wednesday evening. It was the first UPS cargo plane to crash since August 2013, when an Airbus aircraft went down on a landing approach to the international airport in Birmingham, Alabama, killing both crew members.
