Cargo carriers operate fewer flights than passenger lines but they still present a hazard to crew and people on the ground.

Tom Cappelletti, aviation expert and former commercial pilot, joined Boston 25’s Mark Ockerbloom and Cayle Thompson to discuss the devastating crash and revealed he knew two of the pilots aboard the plane.

The UPS plane whose engine exploded in Kentucky had flown out of Baltimore Marshall Airport less than 12 hours earlier.

A deadly UPS cargo plane crash at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport triggered a temporary airfield shutdown, and could lead to delays.

Videos show UPS Flight 2976 banking left before the accident, and officials said the plane's left engine detached entirely during takeoff.

A Louisville resident and several businesses filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against UPS and other companies after a fatal cargo plane crash in Louisville this week killed at least 13 people.

But had the wind been coming from the north and had UPS Flight 2976 been taking off in that direction, the damage, the casualties and the heartbreak could have been much worse. (Airplanes normally take off into the wind because doing that requires less speed to generate the lift needed to get the planes off the ground.)

A 22-year-old aspiring airline pilot with an “intense love and passion for flying” was killed in a small plane crash in Colorado a month after landing a gig as a commercial pilot. Niles Tilenius, 22, was among two people aboard an ultra-light JMB ...

Videos from phones, cars and security cameras captured the tragic final moments of a UPS cargo plane as it caught fire and crashed in a massive explosion just outside Louisville's airport, killing at least 12 people and carving a path of destruction on the ground.