Greater than seven weeks after a person was severely injured within the fiery crash of a UPS cargo airplane in Louisville, Kentucky, he has died, officers introduced Thursday, elevating the demise toll from the incident to fifteen individuals.
The sufferer was recognized by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg as Alain Rodriguez Colina.
Colina “suffered extreme accidents on the time of the crash and handed earlier this Christmas Day,” Greenberg wrote in a social media submit to X Thursday afternoon.
On Nov. 4, UPS Flight 2976 certain for Hawaii crashed moments after takeoff from Louisville Worldwide Airport, the place UPS has its world aviation hub.
The airplane barely lifted off when it got here down in a industrial space close to the airport, crashing into a number of companies. The three pilots aboard the airplane have been killed, together with 12 individuals on the bottom, together with Colina. One other almost two dozen individuals have been harm.
The airplane was carrying as much as 20,000 packages and 38,000 gallons of gas.
In its preliminary report, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board mentioned that the airplane reached an altitude of simply 30 toes, clearing a runway fence, earlier than coming down. Pictures and video additionally confirmed the left engine of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F separating from the wing and falling off throughout takeoff. The NTSB mentioned there was proof of cracks within the left wing’s engine mount.
The particles discipline from the crash stretched a half-mile, Todd Inman, a member of the NTSB, instructed reporters the day after the crash.
This photograph offered by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board reveals the UPS airplane crash scene on Nov. 6, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky.
NTSB by way of AP
Inman additionally mentioned that the cockpit voice recorder — one of many airplane’s two black packing containers that was recovered from the airplane — recorded a persistent bell that sounded within the cockpit for about 25 seconds because the airplane went down.
It may take the NTSB, the lead investigative company within the crash, as much as two years to launch its closing report.
Tom Hanson
contributed to this report.