investigating the crash<\/a>. One focus will be on the lack of a system to slow and stop speeding jets at the end of runways.<\/p>\nMiami is not one of the 120 airports in the U.S. with lightweight, crushable material that the Federal Aviation Administration says has saved around 500 lives.<\/p>\n
Even without a runway excursion system, Miami\u2019s airport appears to be compliant with federal rules because it has a 1,000-foot safety buffer at the end of its runways, experts said.<\/p>\n
NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said her agency\u2019s goal is to prevent tragedies, but runway excursions continue to happen even after the board has suggested installing the systems in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur recommendations must be implemented or we\u2019re going to be here again,\u201d she said at a Monday news conference.<\/p>\n
Investigators recovered the flight data recorder and the information is being reviewed. Interviews with the pilot, co-pilot, air traffic controllers and others are being scheduled, Homendy said.<\/p>\n
All the people killed were in a cleaning service van<\/p>\n
Amazon said in a statement that it is cooperating with the investigation and the company\u2019s deepest sympathies go to the victims and their families.<\/p>\n
The five people killed were all in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a company that cleans planes. The company said it wouldn\u2019t comment on the crash out of respect for the families who lost loved ones.<\/p>\n
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An NTSB investigator works near a damaged van at the site where an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway two days earlier while landing at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Miami. (Rebecca Blackwell\/AP)<\/p>\n
\u201cOur employees are far more than the people who work beside us each day, they are family, and they are deeply loved. Our hearts and prayers are with every employee and every family whose lives have been forever changed,\u201d the company said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade sheriff identified the deceased as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.<\/p>\n
The jet appeared to hover for a long time over the runway<\/p>\n
The Amazon jet was landing after a two-hour flight from Puerto Rico as storms brewed around the Miami airport.<\/p>\n
The NTSB said the plane barreled roughly 1,300 feet past the end of the runway.<\/p>\n
Homendy called the scene \u201cutter devastation,\u201d with pieces of the vehicles, air bags, destroyed navigational equipment and fencing along the plane\u2019s route. She said she had to be careful because jet fuel was still all around 24 hours after the crash.<\/p>\n
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Law enforcement officers walk in front of a destroyed engine as they inspect an Amazon cargo plane two days after it overshot a runway at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Miami. (Rebecca Blackwell\/AP)<\/p>\n
Strong winds over 25 knots were reported Saturday afternoon. Experts who viewed video of the landing said it appears that a strong tail wind propelled the plane far down the runway past the point where it was supposed to land. The plane remained airborne without flaring the nose to force the wheels onto the ground.<\/p>\n
It is not immediately clear why the pilot didn\u2019t abort landing and go around to try again.<\/p>\n
Air traffic controllers also had not changed the approach to the runway to allow the plane to land into a headwind. Airports routinely change which direction planes land on a runway when the winds shift.<\/p>\n
The jet started as a passenger plane before converting to cargo<\/p>\n
The flight had been operated by 21 Air, a cargo carrier based in North Carolina. The 32-year-old Boeing 767 was originally built to carry passengers and flew for several airlines in foreign countries for more than two decades before being converted to a cargo plane in 2015, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.<\/p>\n
Two of the four runways at the Miami airport remained closed Tuesday, and Homendy said they will not be reopened until NTSB investigators gather all the information they need from the crash scene. She said the NTSB would try to release the runway back to the airport as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
Flight delays at the airport continued Tuesday, with at least 40 cancellations and nearly 250 delays, according to tracking website FlightAware. Some flights were diverted to other airports in Florida, including Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/p>\n
Funk reported from Omaha, Nebraska, and Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina. David Fischer contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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Due to an error in a news release from the Miami-Dade County Sheriff\u2019s Office, an earlier version of this story misspelled the last name of victim Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By GISELA SALOMON, JOSH FUNK and JEFFREY COLLINS MIAMI \u2014 The five people killed when an Amazon cargo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[112,28,114,266,123,125,124,373,115,109],"class_list":["post-394161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394161","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=394161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}