LOUISVILLE, KY — City residents were just getting out of work, starting to think about dinner and otherwise going about their Tuesday when they saw something they still can’t believe.
A UPS cargo plane barreled out of the sky and slammed into a number of businesses on the ground, causing a massive explosion. At least seven people were killed, including all three aboard the plane.
SJ Matthews, a University of Louisville nursing student who was just grabbing dinner at a nearby restaurant and walked outside with his food around 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, when he “saw a big cloud of dust.”
“You’d think the world was ending,” the 21-year-old told The Louisville Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. “I was just shocked, and then I find out a plane crashed and blew up, then my heart ached for the people in the plane.”
Damon Fortner, a long-haul UPS truck driver, told USA TODAY that he saw the plane go down.
