Surveillance footage showed the left engine of the UPS cargo plane that crashed on Tuesday in Kentucky, detached from the wing, an official said.
Surveillance footage showed the UPS cargo plane that crashed near a Louisville airport lost its left engine just before takeoff, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said.
During a press conference on Wednesday, J. Todd Inman, an NTSB member, said that the CCTV security footage reviewed by the agency showed « the left engine detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll. » Takeoff roll is the distance an aircraft travels on the runway just before it goes airborne.
« This and other videos, along with evidence we are finding, are very valuable assets to our investigators », Inman said.
