LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Airport first responders are talking about what it was like to be on the scene of the UPS plane crash less than a minute after the plane hit the ground.

Just two weeks prior, they had been at a full-scale training exercise which prepared them for such emergencies.

"Most airport emergency response personnel go their entire career without seeing something like this. We just never dreamed it would happen two weeks after a full scale exercise," said Chief Josh Grimes of the Louisville Regional Airport Authority. "It makes you think twice, looking up at an aircraft now."

Eight members of the airport's public safety team were dispatched to the scene by air traffic controllers, who witnessed the crash unfold from the tower. Within thirty seconds of impact, the crew was on th

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