FedEx Plane Crash – Photos of the FedEx turboprop plane crash in Lubbock, Texas where an ATR-42 twin-engine turboprop cargo plane crashed while landing on January 27, 2009.
Officials say a FedEx cargo plane landing at a Lubbock, Texas, airport veered off the runway, crashed and caught fire, but that both crew members walked away from the plane. The 53-year old male pilot remains hospitalized for observation while the 26-year old female copilot was treated and released.
Lubbock airport director James Loomis says the ATR-42 twin-turboprop aircraft caught fire just after 4:30 a.m. Tuesday when it touched down at the end of the runway and slid into a fence, but safety crews extinguished the fire quickly as 73,000 pounds of cargo smouldered and burned.
The plane landed in a freezing mist, but Loomis says weather was not a factor in the incident. Runways at the Lubbock airport were closed at the time due to icy conditions with deicing under way.
And that’s the latest on the January 27, 2009 Fedex plane crash.
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April 20th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I hope my packages werent on this flight!
Maybe thats why they never arrived?
Why are they allowing aircraft to land on an icy runway anyway! Shouldnt it have been closed!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
too bad so sad…