Two dead in UPS cargo jet crash in Birmingham, Ala.

A large UPS cargo plane crashed early Wednesday morning near the airport in Birmingham, Ala., killing the pilot and co-pilot, in the latest in a series of aviation accidents in the United States this year.The plane, an Airbus A300, clipped trees and nearly hit a house before plowing across about 200 yards (meters) of an empty field short of the runway, a senior official with the National Transportation Safety Board said.Pictures from the scene showed the partially crumpled nose section of the aircraft still largely intact,