{"id":393947,"date":"2026-09-08T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393947\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:18:17","slug":"victims-identified-in-fatal-amazon-cargo-jet-crash-at-miami-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393947\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims identified in fatal Amazon cargo jet crash at Miami airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/miami-p-crash-getty-9.8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">MIAMI, FLORIDA &#8211; SEPTEMBER 07: Investigators continue work to determine what caused the crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport on September 07, 2026 in Miami, Florida. According to reports, at least five people died, and five o <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MIAMI, Fla. &#8211; Authorities in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miami<\/a>\u00a0identified the five people killed when an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, crashing into vehicles and catching on fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz released the names of the victims in a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">They were identified as: Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and 47-year-old Javierkys Reyes Quevedo.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/4-family-members-flying-bahamas-florida-small-plane-missing-coast-guard-joining-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1 FOUND DECEASED AFTER 4 FAMILY MEMBERS FLYING FROM BAHAMAS TO FLORIDA IN SMALL PLANE GO MISSING<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Five others were injured. Three of those people remain hospitalized, with two of them in critical condition. The two pilots were treated and released, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Amazon Air Flight 7598 was traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on its third flight of the day, when it tried landing at the Miami airport.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/pilotless-cargo-aircraft-could-change-how-packages-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PILOTLESS CARGO AIRCRAFT COULD CHANGE HOW PACKAGES MOVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The jet overshot the runway by at least 1,300 feet beyond the paved surface and crashed into multiple vehicles, including a 2012 white Ford Econoline van with passengers inside, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ntsb-report-details-controller-decision-tech-failures-led-deadly-runway-collision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jennifer Homendy<\/a>\u00a0said during a Monday press conference.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The aircraft then crashed through the airport perimeter and struck a civilian vehicle, a Toyota Corolla Cross LE.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/united-airlines-jet-flew-low-slow-striking-light-pole-truck-near-newark-airport-ntsb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UNITED AIRLINES JET FLEW TOO LOW AND TOO SLOW BEFORE STRIKING LIGHT POLE AND TRUCK NEAR NEWARK AIRPORT: NTSB<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The plane then &#8220;continued into the grass and impacted another fence line, which separated an area where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/tesla-robotaxi-miami-launch-comes-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tesla robotaxis<\/a>\u00a0were stationed,&#8221; Homendy said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All the victims were inside the vehicles, she said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Homicide<\/a>\u00a0detectives with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office are investigating the deaths, Cordero-Stutz said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fox News Digital&#8217;s Bonny Chu contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/victims-identified-fatal-amazon-cargo-jet-crash-miami-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOXNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was gathered by Fox News Digital&#8217;s Louis Casiano and Bonny Chu.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article MIAMI, FLORIDA &#8211; SEPTEMBER 07: Investigators continue work to determine what caused the crash of an Amazon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47,123,125,124,115,628],"class_list":["post-393947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fl","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393947","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=393947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}