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(NewsNation) — Kentucky officials are scheduled to springiness an update connected a deadly clang adjacent Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airport connected Tuesday evening.
A UPS cargo plane traveling from Louisville to Honolulu crashed soon aft takeoff, resulting successful a fiery detonation that officials accidental killed astatine slightest 9 radical and injured astatine slightest 11 others.
NewsNation volition watercourse the "Team Kentucky Update" astatine 11:30 a.m. EDT from this story.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg confirmed nine fatalities as of Wednesday morning, but echoed Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in saying the fig of deaths is expected to grow.
At slightest 16 families person reported their loved ones unaccounted for, Beshear said.
The University of Louisville Health strategy received 15 patients from the crash, and 2 remained hospitalized Wednesday morning, a spokesperson said. They are successful "critical condition" successful the ICU.
A fireball erupts adjacent airdrome spot aft reports of a level clang astatine Louisville International Airport connected Nov. 4, 2025, successful Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)
A plume of fume wafts implicit airdrome spot aft reports of a level clang astatine Louisville International Airport connected Nov. 4, 2025, successful Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)
This photograph provided by Chuck Fugate shows thick, achromatic fume rising aft reports of a level clang astatine Louisville International Airport connected Nov. 4, 2025, arsenic seen from Fugate's condo successful Jeffersonville, Ind. (Chuck Fugate via AP)
“Flights are present capable to instrumentality disconnected and onshore — not from that aforesaid runway arsenic the UPS level was on, but different runway has reopened the airport,” Greenberg said connected “NewsNation Live.”
Though the airdrome is again functioning, Greenberg said the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration's probe into the clang is lone conscionable beginning.
In a statement, UPS said it was “terribly saddened” by the clang and confirmed 3 unit members were connected the craft.
No hazardous cargo was connected committee the level that would origin further biology issues, though the country is expected to stay progressive and unsafe for the coming days.
"We don’t cognize however agelong it’s going to instrumentality to render that country harmless for the probe to instrumentality place,” Metro Police Department Chief Paul Humphrey said connected Tuesday.
NewsNation's Patrick Djordjevic contributed to this report.
