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Rick Goodman and agencies

UPS and FedEx ground all MD-11 planes after deadly Louisville crash

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Smoke lit by flame rises from UPS cargo plane crash site at Louisville Muhammad Ali airport. Photograph: Jon Cherry/AP

The freight companies UPS and FedEx have grounded their fleets of MD-11 aircraft days after a cargo plane crash that killed 14 people in Kentucky.

The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday’s crash at a UPS facility in Louisville. They were originally built by McDonnell Douglas until it was taken over by Boeing.

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