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Reports of UPS Plane Crash in Birmingham
Getting preliminary reports of a UPS cargo plane crash in Birmingham, Alabama. (www.alabamas13.com) Más...Looks like they were beginning their approach to RWY 6, then changed course towards RWY 18 before going down. Maybe an inflight malfunction? WX doesnt seem to be too much of an issue. Either way, a sad day.
10 miles visibility, the sun rose at 6:09AM. Crash was shortly after 6AM, so they were about that time and should have been able to see the airport. Saw another report that said they lost 9000 feet of altitude in 2 minutes. They had good visual conditions, and looked like they had a good approach setup... Either the plane suffered a catastrophic failure, or the crew made a major BOOBOO...
The sun did indeed rise at 6:09 am.CDT Keep in mind BHM is in cental time and all the times here on flight aware report by eastern time. The plane crash occurred at 5am central daylight time. It was still pitch dark. Very poor visibility, at that hour, we were out in it,rain/mist/fog
Just FYI
Just FYI
I did keep that in mind.. However, USA TODAY reporting it did not take that into account and I though they had. My fault for listening to such a lousy news source.
The east coast news sources had the accident happening just before 6am EDT.
If you look up flight data on sites like flightaware, it shows the flight originating at about 6am EDT from Louisville around 5am EDT and ending near Birmingham at about 5:50 am EDT (Louisville time).
But since Birmingham is Central Time it was about 4:50 CDT in Birmingham at the time of the crash.
If you look up flight data on sites like flightaware, it shows the flight originating at about 6am EDT from Louisville around 5am EDT and ending near Birmingham at about 5:50 am EDT (Louisville time).
But since Birmingham is Central Time it was about 4:50 CDT in Birmingham at the time of the crash.
I must not be reading the log correctly, for according to the chart, at 5:45-ish there was still data being recorded of its descent. I'm very confused.
I'm thinkin' 5:55CDT was crash time
Again, deepest condolences :(