Widow of pilot who died in UPS plane crash files lawsuit
USA TODAY
The fiery plane crash in November 2025 killed 15 people, including UPS pilot Dana Diamond.
The wife of a pilot who died when a United Parcel Service airplane erupted into a deadly ball of fire and crashed in Louisville in November has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against three companies she claims contributed to leaving her widowed.
The crash on Nov. 4, 2025, killed 15 people, including all three crew members on board the cargo plane and 12 people on the ground ranging in ages from 3 to 62. It was the deadliest crash in UPS Airlines history.
Donna Diamond, the wife of 62-year-old UPS pilot Dana Diamond, filed the suit in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Feb. 25 against Boeing Co., General Electric Co. and VT San Antonio Aerospace, reported the Louisville Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. The lawsuit states the companies contributed to mechanical failures that led the UPS MD-11 plane to crash just seconds after takeoff.
Dana Diamond lived in Caldwell, Texas, with his wife and worked for UPS for 37 years. He was serving as the international relief officer aboard UPS Flight 2976, a scheduled cargo flight to Honolulu, when the plane went down.
"Tragically, Donna would never see her husband alive after that day," the complaint reads. "Even more tragic, Defendants could have prevented Dana’s suffering and death with simple honesty and a little bit of care. But they didn’t."
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