News Summary

• The US firms say they are grounding the aircraft "out of an abundance of caution" The crash on Tuesday, local time, at UPS Worldport in Louisville killed 14 people.
• Investigators say it will be months before a transcript of the cockpit recording is made public.MD-11 aircraft make up about 9 per cent of of the UPS airline fleet.
• Western Global Airlines is the only other US cargo airline that flies MD-11s, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.
• The final deliveries were due in 2000.