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By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: November 12, 2025 astatine 5:42 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A gramps and his young granddaughter. An electrician with 2 young children. A pistillate lasting successful enactment astatine a scrap metallic business.
They were among the 14 radical who died successful the fiery clang of a UPS level successful Louisville past week. Their names were released Wednesday arsenic Mayor Craig Greenberg lamented the lives that volition “forever beryllium unfinished.”
“As we stock the names of those who we‘ve lost, our metropolis feels the afloat value of this unimaginable tragedy,” Greenberg said astatine a quality conference. “Behind each 1 of these names is simply a ellipse of family, friends, stories that volition everlastingly beryllium unfinished.”
Eight days aft the level plowed into the crushed successful a monolithic fireball, the section coroner's bureau said it completed the grim tasks of recovering victims' remains, identifying them and notifying their loved ones. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board stay astatine the clang site, Greenberg said.
Victims included 3 pilots connected committee erstwhile the clang happened during takeoff astatine UPS Worldport, the company’s planetary aviation hub located astatine Muhammad Ali International Airport. They were Capt. Richard Wartenberg, First Officer Lee Truitt and International Relief Officer Capt. Dana Diamond.
Dramatic video captured the craft crashing into businesses and erupting successful a fireball. Footage from eyewitnesses and information cameras has fixed investigators grounds of what happened from galore antithetic angles.
Authorities judge that each the victims person been located and identified, Greenberg said Wednesday.
John Spray, 45, was killed astatine Grade A Auto Parts & Recycling erstwhile the level crashed into the business. The parent of his child, Tifany Torok, said successful a GoFundMe relationship for Spray’s girl that helium “was successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time.”
The household of Louisnes Fedon, 47, said “his decease has created a abrupt and immense void that goes acold beyond affectional grief"; a GoFundMe was acceptable up by a person of Fedon’s children. Like Spray, relatives accidental Fedon and his 3-year-old granddaughter, Kimberly Asa, were successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect clip erstwhile the level crashed to the crushed conscionable disconnected the runway.
Matthew Sweets, 37, was severely burned and died days later. He worked arsenic an electrician and had 2 young children, Cohen and Rayne, according to his obituary.
Another victim, Ella Petty Whorton, 31, was astatine the recycling concern erstwhile the clang occurred. Her boyfriend, Eric Richardson, said they worked unneurotic collecting scrap metallic to assistance marque a living. They had been a mates for much than a twelvemonth aft being introduced by a communal friend.
“She was a large person,” Richardson said this week by phone. “Everybody loved her. I miss her truthful much.”
Others killed successful the clang were Angela Anderson, 45; Carlos Fernandez, 52; Trinadette Chavez, 37; Tony Crain, 65; John Loucks, 52; and Megan Washburn, 35. Officials haven’t publically shared details astir them, including wherever they were erstwhile the level crashed.
Greenberg credited the coroner's bureau for “working tirelessly, nether incredibly challenging conditions," to retrieve the victims' remains, place them and notify the families.
“I had a household subordinate inquire maine yesterday, ‘how bash you ever get utilized to this?’ And I said, ‘I don't,” Jefferson County Coroner Jo-Ann Farmer. “If I get utilized to this and it doesn't fuss maine anymore, I'm successful the incorrect profession.”
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