BTW, from what I can tell UPS Airlines has only had three 'hull-loss' (plane destroyed) incidents in their history-two with fatalities, including this one.
The first incident I actually witnessed (from a distance) and resulted in no fatalities. A DC-8 landing in Philly some years ago caught fire during its approach, filling the cockpit with smoke, but the two pilots got the plane on the ground safely. Shut the airport down for hours. This incident led to the restriction of shipping lithium batteries (as cargo) on passenger-flights, although ironically the same rule does not apply to cargo lines, although the incident happened on a cargo flight.
The 2nd hull-lost event was the plane crash in Dubai, which involved the first fatalities in the history of UPS airlines, and the only ones until last week. By comparison, Fed-Ex has had numerous incidents resulting a plane being declared a 'loss', including runway over-rans and a plane bouncing up in the air and landing on its back in Newark back in the 90's; one might think Fed-Ex has 2nd-class pilots (like their ground drivers), but they are the best paid in the world (much to the consternation of FedEx Express' not-as-well-treated "ground pil-" I mean delivery couriers; always want to call em pilots since they are classified as such and all). However, only the most recent incident-in 2009-resulted in fatalities of FedEx pilots; there was another crash with a single fatality in 2004, but the pilot was shuttling FedEx packages under contract in Alaska, using a Cessna.