TEXAS – The UPS cargo plane that crashed in Kentucky on Tuesday was recently in Texas for more than a month, according to our sister station KSAT and the Associated Press.

KSAT reported that the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, built in 1991, underwent maintenance in San Antonio from Sept. 3 to Oct. 18. It’s unclear what maintenance was performed and if it had any impact on the crash.

Twelve people, including a child, were killed when the cargo plane attempted to take off from the Louisville airport, but crashed and burst into flames when its left wing caught fire shortly after.

The plane gained enough altitude to clear the fence at the end of the runway before crashing just outside Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The cockpit voice recorder and data recorder have since been re

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