The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane crashed at about 5:15 p.m. It was taking off for Honolulu. The FAA said the plane was scheduled to fly to Honolulu after it took off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

A UPS MD-11 plane crashed shortly after take-off near the Louisville, Kentucky, airport, according to preliminary information, a source says.

The Louisville airport in Kentucky said on Tuesday an aircraft was involved in an incident and that the airfield has been closed, after local media reported that a cargo plane had crashed. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru;