STORY: Kentucky governor Andy Beshear, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, and U.S. Representative Morgan McGarvey surveyed the crash site of the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday (November 5).

Large amounts of debris could be seen in the footage.

U.S. federal safety investigators have located the "black box" recorders from the wreckage of the UPS cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from the airport at Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12 people, officials said on Wednesday (November 5).

Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, also confirmed that a large "plume of fire" erupted around the plane's left wing and that one of its three engines detached from that wing as the wide-body jet was rolling down the runway.

The 34-year-old MD-11 freighter was bound for Honolulu with three crew members aboard when it crashed just after clearing a fence at the end of the runway during takeoff on Tuesday evening, striking a number of structures just beyond airport property, Inman said.

The plane was immediately engulfed in a fireball, igniting a string of blazes and scattering a debris field that stretched about a half a mile (800 m) through an industrial corridor, including a petroleum recycling facility that was set ablaze and exploded.

The crash and ensuing fires also forced a shutdown of the airport for the night and disrupted airport-based operations at the UPS Worldport facility, the company's global cargo hub for its air shipments worldwide, slowing delivery services.

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VIDEO SHOWS: KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, LOUISVILLE MAYOR CRAIG GREENBERG AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN MCGARVEY VISITING THE UPS CARGO PLANE CRASH SITE IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY / SCENES FROM THE CRASH SITE

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SHOWS: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 5, 2025) (LOUISVILLE MAYOR CRAIG GREENBERG - No resales.) (MUTE)

1. VARIOUS OF KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, LOUISVILLE MAYOR CRAIG GREENBERG AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN MCGARVEY WALKING TO CRASH SITE

2. WORKERS WALKING

3. WIDE OF WORKERS, OFFICIALS AT CRASH SITE

4. CLOSE-UP OF FIREFIGHTER BOOTS

5. FIREFIGHTERS WALKING

6. BESHEAR, GREENBERG AND MCGARVEY SURVEYING CRASH SITE

7. LOUISVILLE MAYOR CRAIG GREENBERG

8. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS AT CRASH SITE

9. GREENBERG, BESHEAR, AND MACGARVEY WALKING