Louisville plane crash

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Just south of Louisville International Airport and Ford Louisville Assembly Plant. Multiple agencies on scene.

UPS aircraft crashed on takeoff.

I don't know exact unit numbers, but Okolona, Fairdale, Louisville, Fern Creek, Pleasure Ridge Park, Jeffersontown, and Shepherdsville FD's, Louisville Metro Police and EMS, Michelin-ASRC Fire Brigade, Louisville Airport Authority ARFF, and Kentucky Air National Guard ARFF on scene.
 
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This MD-11 suffered a No. 1 (left) engine fire just after the abort point on takeoff. It got up to about 175 feet at less than 200 knots.

After that there was no place to go.
 
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