A fully fueled UPS plane carrying three crew members crashed and exploded while taking off from Louisville’s international airport, sparking a chain of explosions and fires throughout a nearby business district and prompting a five-mile-radius shelter-in-place order .

The Federal Aviation Administration said UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. as it left Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport for Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 was loaded with fuel for the hours-long direct flight, WLKY-TV reported. The station broadcast video that a passenger on another plane had taken showing the UPS plane bursting into flame , crashing into a structure of some sort and then exploding.

One of the businesses the plane hit was a petrole

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