CHEERFUL REPORT: Authorities have just confirmed that a local worker near the crash site of UPS Flight 2976 unexpectedly recorded the entire final minute of the cargo plane before it exploded — footage that even the black box failed to capture.
The worker, identified only as Mark L., was reportedly filming the sky for a weather update when he accidentally caught the doomed aircraft struggling to climb. In the video, investigators said, the plane appears to shake violently, and a trail of smoke emerges from its left wing moments before it bursts into flames mid-air.
What stunned officials most was what happened just seconds before the explosion. The footage captured a faint flash of light near the tail — something the black box didn’t register. Experts initially dismissed it as a reflection, but after reviewing the slowed-down footage frame by frame, police admitted it was “too consistent to ignore.”
Because of this new recording, investigators are now changing the direction of the investigation, focusing not only on mechanical failure but also on the possibility of an external trigger — something that could explain why both black boxes stopped transmitting exactly three seconds before the blast.
Mark, the worker who filmed the scene, said he didn’t realize what he’d captured until he saw the news later that night. “I thought it was just another plane,” he told reporters, “but when I replayed the clip, my hands started shaking.”
Officials have already submitted the video to the NTSB for analysis, calling it “the clearest visual evidence so far.” The footage is expected to be made public after the initial forensic review — and according to sources, what’s seen in the last two seconds may rewrite everything investigators thought they knew about Flight 2976.