UPS plane aborts landing in near miss at same airport where November crash killed 15

A UPS cargo pitchy aborted its landing Tuesday astatine a Kentucky airdrome to debar different craft connected the runway, according to reports, marking a adjacent telephone astatine the aforesaid airdrome wherever a deadly clang occurred months earlier.

An aerial postulation controller could beryllium heard shouting, "What are you doing?" successful audio of the incident, according to FOX 43.

The Boeing 767, identified arsenic UPS Flight 1303, was arriving from Atlanta erstwhile it was ordered to execute a go-around astatine Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport aboriginal Tuesday greeting portion a smaller craft was connected the runway, the outlet reported.

Audio of the speech captures the controller urgently instructing the smaller aircraft, identified arsenic Skylab 25, to halt earlier directing the UPS pitchy to spell around.

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A UPS Boeing 767 cargo level approaches for landing. A akin craft was progressive successful a near-miss incidental astatine Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, according to reports. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

"Two-Five, stop!" the controller yelled, according to FOX 43. "SkyLab Two-Five, what are you doing?"

A UPS spokesperson told WHAS11 the craft "safely conducted a spell around" during its attack and that determination was nary operational interaction oregon injuries.

UPS spokesperson Michelle Polk said the maneuver — successful which a level discontinues its descent and circles backmost for different landing effort — was carried retired successful enactment with modular procedure.

Flight tracking information from FlightRadar24 shows the craft descending to astir 500 feet earlier climbing backmost to astir 1,500 feet wrong a abbreviated span, FOX 43 reported.

Louisville's UPS Worldport is the company's largest bundle handling installation successful the world. The 5.2 million-square-foot hub serves arsenic the halfway of UPS’ planetary aerial network.

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UPS jets are parked astatine the Worldport bundle sorting analyzable astatine Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, successful Louisville, Ky. (Darron Cummings/AP)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to UPS and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for comment.

The adjacent telephone comes conscionable months aft a UPS cargo clang astatine the aforesaid airdrome that killed 15 people.

In November 2025, a UPS MD-11 crashed soon aft takeoff, sidesplitting each 3 unit members and 12 radical connected the ground. National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the plane’s near motor separated soon aft takeoff and caught fire. The craft reached lone astir 30 feet supra crushed earlier crashing.

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The NTSB released photos of the UPS level clang connected Nov. 5 successful Kentucky. (NTSB)

Surveillance footage showed the motor detaching from the helping earlier impact. Investigators recovered structural cracks successful the motor equine that apt led to failure.

UPS grounded its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 craft pursuing the crash, portion the FAA ordered inspections and repairs for the model.

In a abstracted incidental Thursday adjacent Blue Grass Airport successful Lexington, a tiny propeller level landed successful a field. Both radical aboard were uninjured, according to WKYT.