Hearings to focus on why a UPS cargo plane engine fell off, causing deadly crash

Federal safety investigators will hold hearings this week examining why the engine flew off a UPS cargo plane last year, causing a crash that killed 15 people, and why Boeing didn’t address the underlying flaw sooner

Federal safety investigators will hold hearings this week examining why the engine flew off a UPS cargo plane last year, causing a crash that killed 15 people, and why Boeing didn’t address the underlying flaw sooner.

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The engine separated from the MD-11’s wing as it accelerated down the runway Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport in November, killing three pilots on the plane and 12 more people on the ground.

The National Transportation Safety Board’s hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday will focus on why that happened. The agency’s final report likely won’t be ready until more than a year after the crash because the NTSB will look at everything that might have contributed to the crash.