UPS pilots 'struggled to land' with smoke-filled cockpit

Warning: Graphic content Seven Americans died Monday in a plane crash in Afghanistan and horrifying video has emerged of the 747 cargo plane’s apparent final moments in the air. The video, shot on a vehicle’s dashboard camera, shows the 747 during takeoff before its nose pitches up and it starts to stall, suddenly plummeting to the ground on its belly and exploding into a giant fireball.

Investigators in the United Arab Emirates said a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai shortly after takeoff Friday had smoke in the cockpit and was struggling to maintain altitude.

[AP] - A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the "bodies of two pilots" had been found at the scene, but UPS did not confirm that.

Both crew members on board an American United Parcel Services (UPS) plane that crashed in Dubai on Friday were killed, the United Arab Emirates civil aviation department said."The bodies of two of the pilots of the plane," a Boeing 747-400, were found at the scene at the crash, the official UAE news agency WAM quoted a brief civil aviation statement as saying.It did not elaborate on the cause of the crash, but said "measures were taken to contain the fire which broke out on board."

The pilot of a US Boeing 747 cargo plane in flames was starved of oxygen and had to quit the flight deck in last September's deadly crash near Dubai airport, Emirati investigators said Monday."A fire ignited onboard the aircraft?s main cargo deck after departure from Dubai," said the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates in what it termed an updated preliminary report.

Investigators said a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai shortly after takeoff Friday had smoke in the cockpit and was struggling to maintain altitude.

A United Parcel Service Inc.-operated cargo plane, with two crew members aboard, crashed Friday evening on takeoff in Dubai, according to an initial statement from the company.

DETROIT — One of the seven Americans killed in a fiery 747 plane crash outside of an Afghanistan military base that was caught on video told family that he knew he would die “in a ball of flame.” Jamie Brokaw was an experienced navigator who was no stranger to dangerous flying situations and had the skills to stay cool in the face of danger, according to close friend Chris Connerton.