Aviation expert and former RAAF fighter pilot Captain Byron Bailey has revealed the UPS cargo plane that exploded in Louisville, Kentucky had reached the “graveyard zone” during its fatal take-off - and that the pilot would have been incapable of preventing the crash.

That means it will be a while until the full scope of Tuesday night’s UPS plane crash tragedy is understood. The crash resulted in an explosion and sprawling fire near Muhammad

Determining the cause of the crash will be part of an already-in-progress National Transportation Safety Board investigation.

“If you bring us to a week from today, Democrats, you will see mass chaos,” he said at a news conference. “You will see mass flight delays, you’ll see mass cancellations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace because we just cannot manage it because we don’t have the air traffic controllers.”

A UPS MD-11 plane crashed near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The crash caused a fire, prompting local agencies to issue a shelter-in-place alert.

The plane at the center of a deadly Kentucky crash has been a workhorse in the cargo industry for years, but it had gained a reputation as an aircraft that was behind the times.

The black box flight recorders from an aircraft involved in a crash that killed two people at Hong Kong airport earlier this week have been recovered, authorities said Saturday.