UPS United Parcel Service Boeing 747-44AFG_0174
N571UP at Dubai on 2nd September 2010. Tragically this same aircraft crashed outside the Dubai airport boundary the next evening while trying to return to the airfield with an on board fire. The cause of the fire was found to be the ignition of a pallet containing 81,000 lithium batteries and other combustible materials, Smoke entered the cockpit apparently after an air conditioning pack was shot down.
UPS United Parcel Service Boeing 747-44AFG_0174
N571UP at Dubai on 2nd September 2010. Tragically this same aircraft crashed outside the Dubai airport boundary the next evening while trying to return to the airfield with an on board fire. The cause of the fire was found to be the ignition of a pallet containing 81,000 lithium batteries and other combustible materials, Smoke entered the cockpit apparently after an air conditioning pack was shot down.