UPS aircraft crashed in Alabama
Pilot and co-pilot dead.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/14/211911221/developing-cargo-plane-crashes-in-alabama
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The two-person crew of the plane — a pilot and co-pilot — died in the crash, Birmingham Mayor William Bell tells and . Bell reportedly visited the scene this morning.
In a news conference held hours after the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board expressed its condolences to the pilots' families, according to Lousville reporter Gene Kang of .
"The crash occurred while on approach to Runway 18," . The agency is sending investigators to the scene.
Update at 9:05 a.m. ET: The Crash Scene; NTSB Sends Team To Site
The crash site is outside the fence-line of the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport, in a hilly green area. That information comes from the scene, where a says large parts of the plane lay some 50 yards apart in the field. Multiple fire trucks were spraying the smoldering field this morning.
Toni Herrera-Bast, a spokeswoman for Birmingham's airport authority, tells The Associated Press that there are no homes in the immediate area of the crash.