LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane crashed Tuesday at a Louisville, Kentucky airport where the company operates its largest package delivery hub.

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UPS calls the giant center Worldport.

Here’s what to know about its enormous scale:

The facility at Muhammad Ali International Airport employs some 20,000 people, making UPS the largest employer in the Louisville area, the company said on its website.

It processes 2 million packages per day in a facility the size of 10 football fields. It has the ability to handle even more: It has the capacity for 416,000 packages and documents per hour.

Louisville’s location in Kentucky puts it within four hours of flight time to 95% of the U.S. population. It serves 200 countries around the world.

In 2022, the company said it woul

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