Boeing offered to send a team to the United Arab Emirates to provide technical assistance in the investigation process. The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it would dispatch an aviation investigator to assist the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in its investigation of the crash. The accident was the first fatal accident involving UPS Airlines. Both crew members were based in UPS's Anchorage, Alaska pilot base. The captain, 48-year old Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida, died. The aircraft crashed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway. The aircraft was too high on the approach and passed over the airport before making a tight turn radar contact was lost shortly thereafter at 15:42 UTC. Although they were offered a diversion to Doha, Qatar, the pilots returned to Dubai, and were instructed to land on the airport's runway 12L. The pilots were under the control of Bahrain's air traffic control, and they could not initially contact Dubai air traffic control due to a radio failure. Crashįlight 6 departed from Dubai International at 14:53 UTC and at 15:15 the crew reported a fire in the cockpit when the aircraft was around 120 nautical miles (220 km) west-northwest of Dubai, and declared an emergency. Before the crash, it was among the newest (#1,393 of 1,418 the 26th from the last) Boeing 747-400s built. It had flown for a total of 9,977 hours, and had a major inspection performed in June 2010. Even though supersonic transports did not readily materialize for the most part, and did not supersede the Boeing 747 as initially envisioned, over time, the Boeing 747 was not only embraced as a successful passenger and cargo aircraft, many passenger Boeing 747 aircraft were ultimately converted into cargo 747 aircraft, known as BCF - Boeing Converted Freighter(s) when it was no longer viable that they continue to be used as passenger aircraft.The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 747-400F, registered N571UP and was delivered to UPS Airlines in 2007. Consequently, if a passenger 747 aircraft were ever to be adapted as a cargo version with a hinged cargo door, it would be much more cost effective and considerably easier to convert existing passenger aircraft into cargo aircraft if the cockpit were located above the nose, thus enabling existing passenger 747s to continue flying as transformed cargo planes. Interestingly, the large, quad-engine Boeing 747 was initially conceived in the mid-1960s, when supersonic transports were also concurrently on the drawing board, and viewed more favorably at the time as the likely successor for the future travel, Boeing engineers and Pan Am CEO, Juan Trippe opted for the Boeing 747 to be designed so that it could be readily converted into a freighter by merely retrofitting the fixed nose of the existing passenger aircraft with a large hinged cargo door. The first 787-8F (Freighter) was delivered to launch customer, Cargolux in late 2011. The Boeing 747-8F also boasts a greater payload capacity than its predecessor, the Boeing 747-400ERF, the aircraft from which it was derived. Easily discernible from earlier 747 models by its prominently curved aerodynamic wings with raked back wingtips and chevrons on its engine nacelles, the Boeing 747-8 was initially introduced in 2005 as a larger, quieter and more advanced and fuel-efficient variant of its predecessor, the Boeing 747-400, and utilizes the same cockpit and engine technology as its sibling, the Boeing 787, which is acknowledged by the suffix, 8 after 747 (747-8F), with the "F" designating it as a "Freighter." Unlike the passenger version of the Boeing 747-8i, which can carry more than 400 passengers in a 3-class configuration, the Boeing 747-8F freighter variant not only has a noticeably shorter upper deck, it is manufactured with a hinged opening nose door along with a side door on the main deck and a side door on the lower deck to facilitate loading and unloading the aircraft. An accurate, true-to-scale reproduction of the actual aircraft, the model is great for collectors and features authentic, highly detailed graphics and markings. Comprising superior quality, solid, substantial injection molded plastic components with a simple snap-fit design that allows for easy assembly without the need for glue, this SkyMarks 1/200 scale UPS Boeing 747-8F - with Registration N606UP - measures approximately 15-1/16-inches long with a 13-5/8-inch wingspan and comes complete with Landing Gear and a Display Stand.
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