LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off just before it crashed and exploded after takeoff in Kentucky, a federal investigator said Wednesday, offering the first official details about a disaster that killed at least nine people.

First responders, meanwhile, searched for more victims, a day after the crash at UPS Worldport, the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville . It created an inferno that consumed the enormous aircraft and spread to nearby businesses.

There was a fire in the plane’s left wing and the engine “detached” during takeoff, said Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation.

“There are a lot of different parts of this airplane in a lot of different places,” Inman

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