A hidden crack can remain harmless for years, then become catastrophic in seconds. The loss of a UPS MD-11F shortly after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fire in the area of the left pylon attachment to the wing continued as the airplane cleared the blast fence. - UPS/NTSB A ...

Some aircraft accidents begin with a chain of small errors. This one appears to have begun with a structural failure so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this series of photos provided Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board, an engine can be seen separating from and ...

Fatigue fractures in the rear mounting bracket for the left engine pylon led to the crash of UPS flight 2976 departing Muhammed Ali International Airport in Louisville on November 4. That's the ...

Confirmation that the UPS Boeing MD-11F which crashed in Louisville suffered a separation of its left-hand engine during take-off is likely to draw comparisons to the watershed McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ...

Newly released photos included in a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville show the moment the aircraft's left engine came off during ...

The UPS freighter that crashed in early-November when the left engine detached just after takeoff showed fatigue cracks in several sections that secured the turbine, a preliminary report into the ...

A critical mount that kept the left engine attached to the UPS flight that crashed in Louisville earlier this month failed only moments after the doomed flight broke ground, according to a new report ...