After crash: US aviation authority bans harmful plane kind from flying | EUROtoday

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a short lived flight ban for McDonnell Douglas MD-11 plane on Saturday following a severe crash. The order is in impact till inspections are accomplished, the company mentioned.

The logistics corporations UPS and FedEx had beforehand introduced that they might floor their whole fleet of greater than 50 freight plane of this kind. They adopted a suggestion from the plane producer Boeing. UPS mentioned the grounding affected 26 of its plane, representing about 9 p.c of its fleet.

14 useless in Louisville crash

The background is the crash of a UPS MD-11 freight airplane on Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, by which at the least 14 individuals had been killed. During takeoff, the left engine and its suspension indifferent from the wing.

The FAA warned that this situation might lead to “loss of control of the aircraft.” The 34-year-old airplane crashed from a top of round 30 meters whereas burning and destroyed two neighboring buildings. The US Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident. According to investigators, the pilots had been nonetheless making an attempt to regain management of the airplane whereas a warning sound sounded within the cockpit.