The power had just gone off and the ground was shaking at Grade A Auto Parts when the owner received a panicked video call from his chief financial officer.
On his screen, CEO Sean Garber watched a “huge fireball” engulf the Louisville, Kentucky, auto-part and recycling facility he has owned for decades as his colleague described a blast followed by “a continuation of explosions.”
“It looked like really hell’s fury around her,” Garber recalled, describing seeing his employees screaming and running from the flames.
A UPS cargo plane had just slammed into the facility shortly after taking off from a nearby airport Tuesday, leaving at least 12 people dead and multiple families with missing loved ones, Kentucky officials said. Three of Garber’s employees are among those still unaccounted for.
Three crew members aboard the freight plane are believed to be dead, but most of the victims were those
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