By Allison Lampert

(Reuters) -U.S. safety investigators said on Thursday they are probing the maintenance history of a UPS cargo plane that was in Texas for repairs weeks before crashing in flames in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people.

The National Transportation Safety Board has said a large “plume of fire” erupted around the 34-year-old MD-11 freighter’s left wing and one of its three engines detached from that wing as it rolled down a Louisville airport runway.

Flight tracking data show the plane was on the ground in San Antonio, Texas, from September 3 to October 18.

“We are aware that this aircraft was there in San Antonio,” NTSB member Todd Inman told reporters on Thursday, without giving a specific time frame. “We will look at every piece of maintenance

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