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By Mike Mitchell |
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September 5, 2010
- On Friday a UPS 747-400 cargo plane, Flight 6, had departed The Captain declared an emergency and was instructed by controllers to land at a near by Emirati air force base in the desert. It appears that there was a fire onboard the Boeing 747 and that the fire had caused a considerable amount of smoke in the cockpit to the degree that the pilots were unable to see outside the aircraft and were unable to read their instruments on the cockpit panels. |
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The captain
attempted to land at the airbase which is about 10 miles southeast of
The pilots have
been identified as Captain Doug Lampe, 48-year-old of The aircraft, tail number N571UP, was just three years old, entering UPS service off the Boeing production line in September 2007. The airframe had flown 9977 hours, completing 1764 takeoffs and landings. It was up to date on all maintenance, having just completed a major inspection in June 2010. UPS owns 12 747-400s, eight of which are new, and four of which have been purchased from other carriers and adapted for UPS use. The aircraft, which has a payload capacity of nearly 258,600 pounds, is used on long-range international routes, such as the regular Dubai-Cologne routing. The investigation team recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) approximately 6 hours after the accident and efforts continue to locate the digital flight data recorder (DFDR). |
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