Airport CCTV security footage showed the left engine “detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll,” according to Inman. The engine seen in photos from near the crash site is believed to be from the left side of the plane, he added.

The new details echo the worst aircraft disaster in US history, when in 1979 a similar aircraft crashed on take-off after losing the left engine, killing 271 people.

A Delta pilot’s calm message to passengers went viral after he assured them their plane wouldn’t move “an inch” unless it was safe to do so.

The death toll from the UPS plane crash in Louisville has risen to 12, and one of the victims may have been is a child. Mayor Craig Greenberg confirmed the 12 deaths on Wednesday, Nov. 5, one day after the crash near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, according to ABC affiliate WHAS.

A US cargo plane has erupted into a ball of fire after crashing shortly after taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky in the southeastern region of the United States. Injuries have been reported following the fiery crash of a cargo plane in the United States' southeast.

The dashcam captured the reaction of the driver as the fast-moving fireball lit up his face, leaving his mouth and eyes wide in shock.

E vasive actions were needed moments after two passenger jets took off from Los Angeles International Airport last Friday, on of the carriers involved confirms.

After sitting alongside a Utah highway for weeks, a small plane forced to make an emergency landing last month finally returned to the friendly skies, using the same road to vault into the air.