The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday identified the five people who died when an Amazon cargo plane crashed through a runway at Miami International Airport two days earlier.
The jet operated by 21 Air overshot a runway at MIA and crashed into a passenger van carrying seven people working for a cleaning company at the airport, then into a Toyota Corolla Cross. Five of the people in the van, ranging in age from late 40s to early 70s, died, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said Tuesday.
Those who died: Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Narajo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierk Reyes Quevedo, 47, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
“It’s an incredibly tragic incident that has occurred,” Cordero-Stutz told reporters at the Sheriff’s Office’s Doral headquarters. “One leaves their house to go to work, to visit family, to do what we normally do, without thinking that is even a possibility.”
Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz pauses as she releases the names of the victims of the Amazon cargo plane crash during a press conference at Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Headquarters in Doral, Florida, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Cordero-Stutz said the pilot and co-pilot on the jet were released from the hospital.
Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Filipe Silva Molina, 37, were the pilots, the Miami Herald learned after matching the names released by the Sheriff’s Office with the Federal Aviation Administration’s pilot database.
Carroll is listed as a pilot and captain for 21 Air, a cargo carrier that Amazon uses to fly its packages and that was operating the plane Sunday. According to his FAA profile, he is qualified to fly a variety of aircraft, from multi-engine jets to helicopters.
Silva Molina’s LinkedIn profile lists him as a first officer with 21 Air. The profile said he received a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in Colombia, and he flies domestic and international flights for 21 Air.
Two passengers from the van who survived — Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, and Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36 — remain in the hospital, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. A third person in the hospital, 79-year-old Eugenio Corredor, was in the Toyota when the plane crashed, the agency said. Corredor and Diaz were listed as being in critical condition by the Sheriff’s Office; Torres was listed as stable.
Investigations continue at the plane crash scene on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, after an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 crashed off a runway west of Miami International Airport on Sunday. PHOTO BY AL DIAZ adiaz@miamiherald.com 
Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz releases the names of the victims of the Amazon cargo plane crash during a press conference at Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Headquarters in Doral, Florida, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
This story was originally published September 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM.
CORRECTION: This article was updated with corrected spellings of some of the names of victims of the cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport.
Corrected Sep 8, 2026