UPS Cargo Plane Crash Kills 2 in Dubai

[Gerald A]

A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. Reuters reports that authorities said the bodies of the two crewmembers were recovered.

The plane went down inside an Emirati air base near a busy highway intersection about 10 miles southeast of Dubai's international airport. The state news agency WAM reported the crash occurred in an unpopulated desert area, suggesting there may not have been casualties on the ground.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6833205.shtml

[Sarah C]

Rego is N571UP (744) - only three years old. Thoughts go to out the families

[phil.l]

Is that the first B747-400 to go down?

[Matt_L]

Phil,

looks so in terms of fatality side of things and certainly aircraft impact.. however there have been a few B744's written off due to other circumstances..

see here http://aviation-safety.net/database/...datekey&page=1

not sure if there are other occurences not in this database but it is usually quite good.

[Fred C]

Singapore Airlines-Taipei?