Man Left 2 Minutes Before UPS Plane Crash Decimated Home in ‘Flames and Fireballs.’ 3 Friends Died, He Says

A Kentucky man narrowly escaped tragedy after leaving his trailer just moments before it was destroyed in the fiery UPS plane crash near Louisville earlier this week.

“It was just terrifying,” said Robert Sanders, a maintenance worker for Grade A Auto Parts and Recycling who had lived on the property for 12 years, in an interview with CBS affiliate WLKY. “I’d never been that scared, you know? And it’s still messing with me.”

According to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Todd Inman, the MD-11-F cargo plane was traveling from Louisville to Honolulu when it crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Nov. 4

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