An aviation consultant said the Bombardier Challenger 600 is "very susceptible" to ice contamination in the upper wing.

An MD-11 cargo plane is the style plane that crashed into Louisville businesses, shortly after the left engine caught fire and detached. She did not link the retirement of MD-11s to the crash. "Over the next year or so, we will replace much of that capacity with new, more efficient, Boeing 767 aircraft," Tome added.

A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board shows Boeing had previously reported problems similar to what UPS Flight 2976 experienced.

A model of a Boeing jet suffered a catastrophic failure during a public event. Officials with the National Archives Museum were sharing news of the upcoming Freedom Plane National Tour. They unveiled the model of the plane – the one that will carry those founding documents – to applause,