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Kentucky Plane Crash: New footage in the horrific UPS plane crash showed how the aircraft flipped and exploded in a ball of fire as it took off from a Kentucky airport — and the stunned reaction of a driver nearby who watched the blazing horror unfold in front of him.

The clip was taken from the dashcam of a car at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport, and captured UPS Flight 2976 as it attempted to lift off on Tuesday afternoon.

A ball of flame was already following the aircraft as it careened into view, and within an instant, it rolled over and crashed to the ground in a lot filled with cargo trucks.

Black Box found

Meanwhile, US federal safety investigators have located the "black box" recorders from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from the airport at Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12 people, officials said on Wednesday.

Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, also confirmed that a large "plume of fire" erupted around the plane's left wing and that one of its three engines detached from that wing as the wide-body jet was rolling down the runway.

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The 34-year-old MD-11 freighter was bound for Honolulu with three crew members aboard when it crashed just after clearing a fence at the end of the runway during takeoff on Tuesday evening, striking a number of structures just beyond airport property, Inman said.

What happened with UPS plane

The plane was immediately engulfed in a fireball, igniting a string of blazes and scattering a debris field that stretched about a half a mile (800 m) through an industrial corridor, including a petroleum recycling facility that was set ablaze and exploded.

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The crash and ensuing fires also forced a shutdown of the airport for the night and disrupted airport-based operations at the UPS Worldport facility, the company's global cargo hub for its air shipments worldwide, slowing delivery services.

(With inputs from agency)

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