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UPS Airlines Flight 1354 (5X1354/UPS1354) was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama. On August 14, 2013, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed and burst into flames short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport .
In 1995, UPS purchased a second aircraft type from Boeing, the Boeing 767 freighter. The launch customer of both aircraft, UPS Airlines would purchase 75 757s and 32 767s, more than doubling the size of its aircraft fleet. To update the oldest aircraft in its fleet, the 727-100QF conversion was introduced (QF=Quiet Freighter).
The first joint package car center operation in Dartford, Kent, was opened in 2006. On August 28, 2007, United Parcel Service celebrated its 100th anniversary. [36] All Nippon Airways, a Star Alliance member, and UPS formed a cargo alliance and codeshare agreement to transport member cargo in 2008, similarly to an airline alliance. [37]
The company built a custom 35-foot trailer (5 feet longer than the biggest Airstream available at the time) that lacked wheels so it could be transported on a flatbed truck or a cargo airplane.
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A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express, which is the largest cargo airline in the world. Unit load device LD3 containers being loaded into the belly cargo hold of a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux. Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of ...
Last month the International Air Transport Association said that total demand for air cargo, which is measured in cargo ton-kilometers, climbed 18.4% in January compared with the prior-year period.
UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a scheduled international cargo flight operated by UPS.On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Cologne, Germany, developed an in-flight fire, which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board.