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Six people aboard a private business jet registered to the same address as a prominent Houston law firm were killed Sunday night when the jet crashed on takeoff in Bangor, Maine.
UPS has retired its fleet of MD-11s.
The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a flaw in the part that failed and contributed to the engine flying off a UPS plane before it crashed and killed 15 in November but at that point the plane manufacturer didn’t believe it threatened safety.
A new NTSB update says Boeing identified fatigue risks in a key MD-11 engine component years before a UPS crash that killed 15 people near Louisville.
A first look at the UPS plane crash site in Louisville