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Victims of fatal UPS plane crash identified
An Alabama medical examiner has identified the two crew members who died in the crash of a UPS plane this week.
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama medical examiner has identified the two crew members who died in the crash of a UPS plane this week.
The Jefferson County, Ala., medical examiner on Thursday night identified the victims as Capt. Cerea Beal, Jr., 58, of Matthews, N.C. and First Officer Shanda Fleming, 37, of Lynchburg, Tenn.
An ex-Marine, Beal had been with UPS since 1990. Fanning had worked with the company since 2006.
Federal officials have found no evidence of a pre-crash fire or engine failure aboard UPS Flight 1354, which went down early Wednesday.
National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt says the plane was trying to land on the Birmingham airport's shorter runway because the longer one was closed for maintenance.
The plane slammed into a hillside just short of the runway.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Federal investigators found no initial evidence that a UPS cargo jet suffered engine failure or was burning before it clipped trees at the end of a runway and slammed into a hillside, killing the two pilots, officials said Thursday.
Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said during an afternoon news conference the findings were only preliminary, and investigators hope to get additional evidence from data and voice recorders that were pulled from the plane's burned-out tail section earlier in the day.
"They were blackened and sooted," he said of the recorders, one of which captures voices in the cockpit and the other which records flight information about the plane's operation. "We are cautiously optimistic that we will be able to obtain good data."
The twin-engine A300 bound for Birmingham from Louisville, Ky., was attempting to land on a 7,000-foot-long runway at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport when it crashed before dawn Wednesday. Sumwalt said the airport's other, 12,000-foot runway was shut down for repair work on its lights at the time.
Pilots are forced to navigate over a large hill to reach the shorter runway, and the plane clipped trees in a neighborhood before plummeting into the ground well short of the landing area.
Sumwalt said there was no indication of problems with the lights on the runway where the jet attempted to land, but investigators did find pieces of wood from trees inside an engine, plus dirt.
Investigators are still analyzing the debris, he said.
"We're just in the very beginning stages of the investigation," he said.
One of the investigators' tasks will be to probe why the plane was low enough to hit trees. The impact sheared off pieces of the aircraft and sent them crashing on to two homes along with large pieces of limbs.
Residents who live near the airport said they have worried for years about the possibility of a plane crash.
The plane went down in a rolling field where a neighborhood stood until airport officials began buying up homes and razing them to clear the area near the end of the runway. Cornelius and Barbara Benson, whose trees were hit by the plane, said they haven't received a buyout offer but hope that will now change.
"Hopefully we can get out of here now," said Cornelius Benson.
The jet clipped trees around the Bensons' yard, leaving broken plastic and twisted metal on the ground.
Other neighbors reported seeing flames coming from the aircraft and hearing its engines struggle in the final moments before impact. Sumwalt didn't address whether flames could have erupted after the plane struck trees but while still airborne.
Officials previously said the pilots didn't issue any distress call before the crash.
The pilots' names were not immediately released. But a man who identified himself as a family member said one of the pilots was Shanda Fanning, a woman in her mid-30s from Lynchburg, Tenn.
Wes Fanning, who said he was the woman's brother-in-law, said Shanda Fanning had been flying since she was a teenager.
He said officials contacted her mother and that UPS representatives were with the family.
Ryan Wimbleduff, who lives just across the street from the airport property, said the crash shook his house violently. Standing in his driveway, he and his mother could see the burning wreckage.
Wimbleduff said it can be unsettling to live so near low-flying, big aircraft.
"We'll sometimes be outside and joke about being able to throw rocks at them, they're so close," he said.
Cornelius Benson, 75, said planes routinely fly so low over his house that a few years ago, the airport authority sent crews to trim treetops.
The plane was built in 2003 and had logged about 11,000 flight hours over 6,800 flights, Airbus said in a news release.
The A300, Airbus' first plane, began flying in 1972. Airbus quit building them in 2007 after making a total of 816 A300 and A310s. The model was retired from U.S. passenger service in 2009.
Wednesday's crash came nearly three years after another UPS cargo plane crashed in the United Arab Emirates, just outside Dubai. Both pilots were killed.
Authorities there blamed the Sept. 3, 2010, crash on the jet's load of 80,000 to 90,000 lithium batteries, which are sensitive to temperature. Investigators determined that a fire probably began in the cargo containing the batteries.
The crash in Birmingham scattered cargo throughout the field where the plane landed. UPS Airlines spokesman Mike Mangeot said in an email that the company was reaching out to customers who had packages on the flight to address claims.
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Associated Press writers Becky Yonker and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky.; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; and Josh Freed in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
The Jefferson County, Ala., medical examiner on Thursday night identified the victims as Capt. Cerea Beal, Jr., 58, of Matthews, N.C. and First Officer Shanda Fleming, 37, of Lynchburg, Tenn.
An ex-Marine, Beal had been with UPS since 1990. Fanning had worked with the company since 2006.
Federal officials have found no evidence of a pre-crash fire or engine failure aboard UPS Flight 1354, which went down early Wednesday.
National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt says the plane was trying to land on the Birmingham airport's shorter runway because the longer one was closed for maintenance.
The plane slammed into a hillside just short of the runway.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Federal investigators found no initial evidence that a UPS cargo jet suffered engine failure or was burning before it clipped trees at the end of a runway and slammed into a hillside, killing the two pilots, officials said Thursday.
Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said during an afternoon news conference the findings were only preliminary, and investigators hope to get additional evidence from data and voice recorders that were pulled from the plane's burned-out tail section earlier in the day.
"They were blackened and sooted," he said of the recorders, one of which captures voices in the cockpit and the other which records flight information about the plane's operation. "We are cautiously optimistic that we will be able to obtain good data."
The twin-engine A300 bound for Birmingham from Louisville, Ky., was attempting to land on a 7,000-foot-long runway at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport when it crashed before dawn Wednesday. Sumwalt said the airport's other, 12,000-foot runway was shut down for repair work on its lights at the time.
Pilots are forced to navigate over a large hill to reach the shorter runway, and the plane clipped trees in a neighborhood before plummeting into the ground well short of the landing area.
Sumwalt said there was no indication of problems with the lights on the runway where the jet attempted to land, but investigators did find pieces of wood from trees inside an engine, plus dirt.
Investigators are still analyzing the debris, he said.
"We're just in the very beginning stages of the investigation," he said.
One of the investigators' tasks will be to probe why the plane was low enough to hit trees. The impact sheared off pieces of the aircraft and sent them crashing on to two homes along with large pieces of limbs.
Residents who live near the airport said they have worried for years about the possibility of a plane crash.
The plane went down in a rolling field where a neighborhood stood until airport officials began buying up homes and razing them to clear the area near the end of the runway. Cornelius and Barbara Benson, whose trees were hit by the plane, said they haven't received a buyout offer but hope that will now change.
"Hopefully we can get out of here now," said Cornelius Benson.
The jet clipped trees around the Bensons' yard, leaving broken plastic and twisted metal on the ground.
Other neighbors reported seeing flames coming from the aircraft and hearing its engines struggle in the final moments before impact. Sumwalt didn't address whether flames could have erupted after the plane struck trees but while still airborne.
Officials previously said the pilots didn't issue any distress call before the crash.
The pilots' names were not immediately released. But a man who identified himself as a family member said one of the pilots was Shanda Fanning, a woman in her mid-30s from Lynchburg, Tenn.
Wes Fanning, who said he was the woman's brother-in-law, said Shanda Fanning had been flying since she was a teenager.
He said officials contacted her mother and that UPS representatives were with the family.
Ryan Wimbleduff, who lives just across the street from the airport property, said the crash shook his house violently. Standing in his driveway, he and his mother could see the burning wreckage.
Wimbleduff said it can be unsettling to live so near low-flying, big aircraft.
"We'll sometimes be outside and joke about being able to throw rocks at them, they're so close," he said.
Cornelius Benson, 75, said planes routinely fly so low over his house that a few years ago, the airport authority sent crews to trim treetops.
The plane was built in 2003 and had logged about 11,000 flight hours over 6,800 flights, Airbus said in a news release.
The A300, Airbus' first plane, began flying in 1972. Airbus quit building them in 2007 after making a total of 816 A300 and A310s. The model was retired from U.S. passenger service in 2009.
Wednesday's crash came nearly three years after another UPS cargo plane crashed in the United Arab Emirates, just outside Dubai. Both pilots were killed.
Authorities there blamed the Sept. 3, 2010, crash on the jet's load of 80,000 to 90,000 lithium batteries, which are sensitive to temperature. Investigators determined that a fire probably began in the cargo containing the batteries.
The crash in Birmingham scattered cargo throughout the field where the plane landed. UPS Airlines spokesman Mike Mangeot said in an email that the company was reaching out to customers who had packages on the flight to address claims.
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Associated Press writers Becky Yonker and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky.; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; and Josh Freed in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
Asiana Flight 214 from Seoul was attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport when it crashed. Two dead, 48 hurt in San Francisco Airport crash, 60 remain unaccounted for Pray for the Families
SAN FRANCISCO -- An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul crashed on landing at San Francisco's airport Saturday, killing two passengers, injuring nearly 50 and and forcing passengers to scamper from the aircraft using inflatable emergency exit slides. .About 60 passenger remained unaccounted for late Saturday afternoon, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White and Mayor Edwin Lee said. There were 291 passengers and 16 crew on board the Boeing 777 aircraft.
At least 48 people had been hospitalized, Hayes-White said. San Francisco General Hospital spokeswoman Rachael Kagen said 27 passengers, including two children, were being treated for injuries, at least 10 in critical condition.
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Images from the scene showed smoke billowing from the plane and emergency exits open from the plane's fuselage, with the tail separated from the aircraft. Gaping holes could be seen in the roof of the plane's body, blackened by fire.
The plane was a Boeing 777, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said. It crashed on runway 28L.
The flight was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members, including 61 U.S. citizens, 77 South Koreans and 141 Chinese, Reuters reported from Seoul, citing an airline official The official could not immediately confirm the nationalities of the remaining passengers.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, before stopping in Seoul en route to San Francisco, the fire chief said.
The two known dead were female passengers, according to the San Mateo County coronoer, NBC News reported.
Asiana Airlines said on its Twitter account, "Our thoughts and prayers are with all the passengers, and flight crew on the flight. We hope to provide you with further info asap... We are currently investigating and will update with news as soon as possible.''
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