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.)

The small plane crashed into a tree before falling into the driveway of a home near the Saratoga County Airport.

A pilot was killed and a second person was injured when a small plane crashed outside a home in upstate New York on Friday morning, Oct. 31.Emergency crews in Saratoga County responded to a private residence on Stone Church Road in Ballston Spa,

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

A second aviation expert Marco Chan says the footage shows “the left engine catching fire during take-off”, followed moments later by “a burst of smoke from the upper centre engine”. “A single engine fire can usually be managed, but losing two engines within seconds would have made the plane impossible to control or climb away,” he tells us.

A pilot was killed and a second person was injured when a small plane crashed outside a home in upstate New York on Friday morning, Oct. 31.Emergency crews in Saratoga County responded to a private residence on Stone Church Road in