‘Unimaginable Tragedy’: Authorities Identify The 14 People Killed In Louisville UPS Plane Crash

Those who were killed after a UPS plane went down in flames in Louisville earlier this month were identified by authorities on Wednesday as the investigation into the crash continues.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, alongside the city’s coroner, identified each of the 14 victims during a press conference. Greenberg said that Louisville “feels the full weight of this unimaginable tragedy.” Eleven of the people who were killed in the crash were on the ground and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the UPS MD-11 plane went down after takeoff on November 4.

Among those killed was 47-year-old Louisnes Fedon and his 3-year-old granddaughter, Kimberly Asa, WLWT reported. The other victims were identified as Capt. Dana Diamond, 62, Capt. Richard Wartenberg, 57, First Officer Lee Truitt, 45, Angela Anderson, 45, Carlos Fernandez, 52, Trinadette “Trina” Chavez, 37, Tony Crain, 65, John Loucks, 52, John Spray, 45, Matthew Sweets, 37, Ella Petty Whorton, 31, Megan Washburn, 35.

“Each of these victims represents a life full of purpose, interrupted far too soon. And also, a life that will never fade because we’ll always remember them,” the mayor added.

Diamond, Wartenberg, and Truitt made up the flight crew of the MD-11, while everyone else who was killed in the crash was either a customer or employee of Grade A Auto Parts and Scrap Metal Recycling, according to the business’s owner, Sean Garber, NBC News reported. The business is just south of the runways at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport, where the UPS plane took off en route to Hawaii.

Video footage taken just before the crash showed the aircraft’s left wing burst into flames. The plane, which had around 50,000 gallons of fuel for the long trip to Hawaii, then exploded into a massive fireball when it crashed. National Transportation Safety Board Member Todd Inman said last week that the footage “shows the left engine detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll.”

Authorities still have not said what caused the crash, but UPS and FedEx said last week that they were grounding their fleets of MD-11 cargo planes “out of an abundance of caution.” NTSB anticipates issuing a preliminary investigation report into the crash by early December.

Crews in Louisville continue to work on the site of the crash and have stopped oil from the crash from seeping into the city’s groundwater.

Fetterman Leaves Dana Bash Speechless As He Blows Up ‘Mean’ Democrats

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) drew a shocked response from CNN anchor Dana Bash when he told her that the most vicious attacks aimed at him have not come from conservatives, but rather from those on the Left.

Fetterman sat down with Bash to discuss his new memoir, “Unfettered,” and she explained that she’d been struck by a claim he made in the book — namely that Democrats were consistently more cruel in their attacks than Republicans were.

WATCH:

🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN’s Dana Bash by telling her how Left crueler than Right🚨

FETTERMAN: “The Right would say really rough things and names … but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that ‘We’re cheering for your next stroke’ … they even have a gif… pic.twitter.com/iMRyVTssgs

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 12, 2025

“You said, quote, ‘I’ve drunk deeply of the venom of both the Left and the Right. And as a connoisseur, I can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest, is from the far Left,'” Bash read from the book. “That is pretty remarkable to hear you say that as an elected Democrat. Why?”

“It’s just been my personal experience on this thing,” said Fetterman, who has repeatedly bucked the far Left in his party on major issues such as the war between Israel and Gaza and the recent battle to reopen the federal government.

“I asked my digital team, I said, ‘We’re on all the platforms, you know, what’s kind of the harshest? What’s kind of the most personal?” Fetterman asked. “And the answer was immediate. They said, ‘Oh, Bluesky. It’s Bluesky.”

“And the difference is the Right would say really rough things and names, some names I won’t repeat on TV,” he continued. “But on the Left, it was like, they want me to die, or that ‘We’re cheering for your next stroke’ or that’s terrible that depression — ‘Why couldn’t the depression won?’ And ‘I hope your kids find you.’ And they even have a graphic, like a gif where they have a stroke in your head —”

“Oh my gosh!” Bash exclaimed, clearly shocked.

“And they said that — I remember one that they claimed, ‘oh, the doctor let us down,’ and ‘why did they have to save his life?'” Fetterman added. “I mean, just really — I just can’t imagine people are wishing, ‘I wish he dies,’ or ‘I want him to die,’ you know, literally cheering for a stroke. And I don’t know what the kind of a place where that comes from.”

“That’s much different from calling me a name,” he explained. “And that’s really been consistent in that community online.”

Just a few days earlier, HBO host and comedian Bill Maher was commenting on the exact same issue with Cheryl Hines, wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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🚨NEW: Bill Maher, Cheryl Hines *RAIL AGAINST* Democrats over “HOW MEAN” they are🚨

HINES: “The Republicans have been very kind to me from the beginning. Even … when Bobby was running as a Democrat, they weren’t mean. And they never have been. And I can’t say that for the… pic.twitter.com/9DiWjCh8rN

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 10, 2025

“The Republicans have been very kind to me from the beginning,” Hines remarked, saying that even when her husband had run as a Democrat, Republicans had not been “mean” to them. “They never have been. And I can’t say that for the Democrats.”

“I agree. And it’s sad because it’s not the Democrats we grew up with,” Maher replied, adding, “I’m not going to pretend I don’t notice how different they are. How mean they’ve become.”

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