HORRIFYING footage shows the Louisville jet on fire moments before it crashed – with a report saying the explosion which killed three may have been caused by an engine issue. In the

A second aviation expert Marco Chan says the footage shows “the left engine catching fire during take-off”, followed moments later by “a burst of smoke from the upper centre engine”. “A single engine fire can usually be managed, but losing two engines within seconds would have made the plane impossible to control or climb away,” he tells us.

The crash Tuesday at UPS Worldport, the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville, killed 13 people, including the three pilots on board. The NTSB is leading the investigation. Inman said it would be months before the transcript of the cockpit recording is made public as part of that investigation process.

"Looking at this MD-11 UPS crash , this is some of the most terrifying and sad footages I have seen," Ahmed Baokbah told Newsweek.