At least three people were killed when a large, wide-body UPS cargo plane crashed while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, igniting an enormous fire and causing “multiple injuries” on the ground, authorities said.

UPS Flight 2976 crashed at about 5:15pm local time (22:15 GMT) on Tuesday as it was departing from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali airport, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.

UPS said in an initial statement that three crew members were on board the aircraft, but provided no information as to any casualties or injuries.

“Right now, we believe we have at least three fatalities, and I believe that number is going to get larger,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said at a news conference.

“We have at least 11 injuries, some of them very si

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