Two Louisville men are desperately awaiting word on the whereabouts of a 45-year-old woman believed to have been at an auto-parts store that was hit by the UPS plane that crashed Tuesday, according to CNN affiliate WDRB.
The woman’s boyfriend said she had gone to Grade A Auto Parts to drop off some scrap metal after work – around the same time the freight plane crashed after taking off from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
“I was like, ‘I don’t want to go, (you) go ahead,’” the boyfriend told WDRB outside a family assistance center authorities have set up at the Louisville police training academy.
He went to the center with another man who shares two children with the missing woman. Both struggled to put how they’re feeling into words.
“She’s all I got, so … I don’t know how this is going to turn out,” the woman’s boyfriend said.
The two men said officials at the center took their information and promised to “give us the news as it comes in.”
Asked what it was like being in the center with other emotional families reporting missing loved ones, the boyfriend said, “I had to go – I can’t be in there.”
WDRB reported a “steady flow” of Louisville residents going to the family assistance center, some returning multiple times.
It’s unclear how many people may be missing after the crash, officials said at a news conference Tuesday night. The crash impacted a “large-scale area,” but fire crews will continue to search for victims as they work to further contain flames from the crash, Louisville Fire Department Chief Brian O’Neill said.
“You’ve got a fire that’s covering almost an entire city block. So, we’re going to very, very carefully make sure we go back and check. Obviously, we hope that there were no other victims,” the chief said.
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