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Before UPS Cargo Plane caught fire and crashed This week, a cockpit voice recorder captured a repeated ringing bell that continued to ring for 25 seconds in the cockpit as pilots tried to regain control, a National Transportation Safety Board The member said on Friday.
NTSB member Todd Inman said the bell began ringing continuously about 37 seconds after the crew applied takeoff thrust and continued until the recording ended, which investigators believe was the final point of impact.
There may be different types of alarms with different meanings, but investigators know that the left side of the plane was on fire. wing And flight data will be used to help determine a clearer picture of what happened, officials said.
accident on tuesday Above Worldport, the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville, killed 13 peopleWhich also includes three pilots on board the plane.
The NTSB is leading the investigation. Inman said it would take several months for a transcript of the cockpit recording to be made public as part of that investigative process.
Former federal accident investigator Jeff Guzzetti told the Associated Press the bell was likely signaling engine Fire.
“It happened at the point of takeoff where they had exceeded the speed of their decision to abort takeoff,” Guzzetti told The Associated Press after Inman’s news conference on Friday.
“They likely exceeded their critical decision speed in order to remain on the runway and stop safely. … They would have needed to fully examine the options that the crew may or may not have had.”
The crashed plane was carrying 38,000 gallons of fuel and struck two buildings, including the UPS facility where Fedden worked, as well as a petroleum recycling facility, causing some oil-filled containers at the site to explode.
Luisanes Fedon and her 3-year-old granddaughter, Kimberly Asa, were collecting metal at a nearby junkyard Muhammad Ali International Airport When the MD-11 cargo plane hit the ground shortly after takeoff and exploded.
Apart from Fedden, the names of few other victims have been reported since the accident.