The National Transportation Safety Board will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to investigate why a UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F lost an engine and crashed after taking off last year from Louisville, Kentucky.
The hearing comes just days after the Federal Aviation Administration cleared the same type of aircraft to return to the skies.
On November 4, UPS flight 2976, a cargo plane headed to Hawaii, crashed moments after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, spreading flames and wreckage for a half-mile and sending black smoke billowing into the sky. Fourteen people died, including the three crew members on the plane 23 people on the ground were injured.
The UPS freighter was a 34-year-old jet with three engines: two on the wings and one on the tail.
Now, over the two days of the hearing, the NTSB will question witnesses, including representatives of UPS, the pilot’s union, the FAA and Boeing, to help determine what went wrong.
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