UPS plane crashes in Dubai

A UPS-owned 747 crashed on take-off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with two crew members aboard.

A spokesperson for the Atlanta-based company, Ronna Branch, said she did not know the names or nationality of the crew members or where they were based. Nearly three hours after the crash at noon eastern time, no casualties had been confirmed.

The flight was going from Dubai to Cologne, Germany. Branch said she could not speculate on the cause of the crash until the investigation was complete.

Branch said there had been no previous crashes involving UPS-owned planes and UPS airlines had never lost a crew member. One plane caught fire after landing in Philadelphia in February 2006, but Branch said she did not know the cause of that fire. No one was injured in the blaze.

The company's airline is headquartered in Louisville, Ky. UPS owns and operates 238 planes; 216 of them are currently in service. The company has a dozen 747-400s, the plane that crashed. The maximum payload of that aircraft is 258,600 pounds, the largest UPS operates.

Branch said she did not know the payload of the plane that crashed in Dubai.

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