Pilot, co-pilot killed in fiery UPS cargo plane crash at Alabama airport

[Ears and Eggs]

A large UPS cargo plane crashed early Wednesday morning near the airport in Birmingham, Ala., killing the pilot and co-pilot, said city Mayor William Bell.
The two were the only people killed or injured in the fiery crash, Bell said. Neighborhoods in a half-mile radius of the site were evacuated, he said.
Flight 1354 crashed shortly after 6 a.m. at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The Airbus A306 from Louisville, Ky., crashed while making an approach to the airport, according to UPS.

Pilot, co-pilot killed in fiery UPS cargo plane crash at Alabama airport - U.S. News

 

[Speedy78]

Boy contracts brain eating amoeba. Wtf!

Had a guy tell me this right before we went flying today.

 

[NKO29]

maybe thats where my mail is?

 

[Dr_Evil]

Judging by how intact the cockpit is, my guess is they died from something like blunt force trauma. That sucks no matter how they passed away though.

I've flown in and out of that airport many times. Mostly on a 737. Once in a Cessna 150.

 

[Ears and Eggs]

A few more pictures I found.

 

[BowtieGuy]

That cockpit is amazingly intact, considering the level of destruction to the rest of the aircraft.

 

[danefex]

...well before it comes up media, lets be clear that shining lasers at airplanes had nothing to do with this. My condolences to those who know the deceased from this accident & those who will be affected by a delivery/shipment mishap :/

:beer:

 

[Dr_Evil]

That cockpit is amazingly intact, considering the level of destruction to the rest of the aircraft.

I'm curious as to what happened. It almost looks like thay might have try to do an emergency landing in a field except there wasn't an emergency that anybody knows about. Could have just landed short too. I think I read that it went down in an rea that was cleared for airport expansion.

It looks like the cockpit broke away on impact and the rest kept going forward.

Found this picture. It looks like somebody took the picture from a SWA 737.

Looks like they might have been on or turning onto final to land on runway 18. Here is the approximate location I got from looking at the picture above and below. It looks like the rest of the fuselage did a 180.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=33.585719,-86.747317&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl