About 14 years before an MD-11 aircraft flown by UPS crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 people, Boeing warned about potential problems with the parts holding an engine in place, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The NTSB report noted that parts recovered from the assembly that held the left wing’s engine — which fell off the plane — were fractured.
No official cause had been determined for the crash, which came shortly after takeoff from Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov. 4, killing all three people on the plane and 11 people on the ground as it exploded in a giant fireball.
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