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(NewsNation) — Nine radical were missing Thursday aft a UPS cargo plane crashed adjacent the airdrome successful Louisville, Kentucky, section authorities said.
In a quality conference, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said 9 radical presumed to beryllium successful the country astatine the clip of the clang were reported missing by their families.
“We person located 12 victims of this crash, including what we judge to beryllium 3 of the UPS crew," helium added.
He said authorities were capable to place six of those victims connected Wednesday.
The level was traveling from Louisville International Airport to Honolulu erstwhile it crashed during takeoff, striking adjacent buildings and causing a monolithic explosion. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the origin of the crash, with assistance from the FBI and ATF. On Thursday, the NTSB announced the plane's black container and cockpit dependable recorder had been recovered from the clang site.
E.J. Meiman, enforcement manager for Louisville Metro Emergency Services, said hunt and rescue efforts would proceed until each victims are accounted for.
“We’ve got municipality hunt and rescue teams from each implicit the region that person travel successful and are doing methodical searches,” Meiman said. “And again, if they find thing they request to get into, they’ve got to coordinate with the NTSB to marque definite that it is not immoderate benignant of craft constituent oregon anything.”
Fire crews remained on-site to enactment retired immoderate blistery spots that whitethorn reignite arsenic the probe continues. The aerial and h2o prime successful the country were besides being monitored, fixed the size of the plume from the explosion.
“They were not getting immoderate important aerial show readings for immoderate wellness hazards each the mode to the river," Meiman said. "And that’s why, done the night, we were capable to importantly trim that shelter-in-place area."
The shelter-in-place is present a 4th mile successful radius. No hazardous cargo was connected committee the level that could origin further biology issues, though officials said the country was expected to stay progressive and unsafe successful the coming days.
In a statement, UPS said it was “terribly saddened” by the clang and confirmed 3 unit members were connected committee the aircraft.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said helium was launching a catastrophe alleviation fund, which volition archetypal beryllium utilized to money the funerals of the victims. NTSB officials will clasp a briefing connected the probe astatine 3 p.m. EST connected Thursday.
