NTSB releases video of engine separation in deadly UPS cargo plane crash

On a November morning in 2025, a cargo flight departing Louisville became a reminder that the slow, invisible work of metal fatigue can outpace the systems we build to detect it. Fifteen lives were lost — three pilots and twelve people on the ground — when an engine tore free during takeoff and the plane came down into a business complex. The NTSB's public release of the footage this week, alongside a Washington hearing, opens a broader reckoning with how safety notices are interpreted, how crews are reassigned, and how long-accumulated stress in aging aircraft can go unchecked until the momen