{"id":392577,"date":"2026-09-07T04:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:10:12","slug":"travelers-face-canceled-flights-after-deadly-miami-international-airport-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392577\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers face canceled flights after deadly Miami International Airport crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the four runways reopened Sunday night at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/miami-airport-plane-disabled-9-6-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami International Airport after an Amazon cargo plane crashed, killing at least five people and causing a total ground stop<\/a> for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Long lines wrapped through the airport on Sunday night as the crash investigation continued on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m flying out of Orlando Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. That&#8217;s the best bet,&#8221; one traveler named Joe said.<\/p>\n<p>All runways and taxiways at MIA were closed for several hours, causing widespread travel delays.<\/p>\n<p>Are Miami International Airport flights delayed?<\/p>\n<p>Countless passengers told CBS News Miami they couldn&#8217;t find another flight until at least Tuesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They delayed it like three times and then eventually just canceled it, so our alternative is not leaving until Tuesday,&#8221; said Marah Edwardo, who is traveling to North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Airport employees handed out bottles of water as passengers waited in long lines to rebook their flights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was booked on United first, and it got canceled and I rebooked it immediately with American&#8230; stand in this line for some time, and now my second flight is canceled,&#8221; said Polina Radchenkova.<\/p>\n<p>Miami International Airport flight cancellations continue<\/p>\n<p>Cancelations continued well into Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our bags are being checked, but the flights aren&#8217;t 100% guaranteed,&#8221; said Hayley Mitchell, who is traveling to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Many were shocked and saddened to hear that five lives were lost in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get a hotel if we have to and be thankful to God that we weren&#8217;t involved in the crash and pray for the families that were involved,&#8221; said Juanita.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s horrible, I&#8217;m sorry, that&#8217;s terrible, I hope it never happens again, and they learn from their mistake,&#8221; said Radchenkova.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the four runways reopened Sunday night at Miami International Airport after an Amazon cargo plane crashed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,1063,124,1064,3118],"class_list":["post-392577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}