{"id":394797,"date":"2026-09-09T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:16:29","slug":"first-lawsuit-filed-following-fatal-amazon-cargo-plane-crash-at-miami-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394797\/","title":{"rendered":"First lawsuit filed following fatal Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The widow of a man who was killed Sunday when an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/08\/national-transportation-safety-board-team-visits-fatal-cargo-plane-crash-site-in-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/08\/national-transportation-safety-board-team-visits-fatal-cargo-plane-crash-site-in-miami-dade\/\">Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport <\/a>has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging multiple failures contributed to her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/09\/viuda-de-una-de-las-victimas-presenta-la-primera-demanda-contra-amazon-tras-el-accidente-en-mia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/09\/viuda-de-una-de-las-victimas-presenta-la-primera-demanda-contra-amazon-tras-el-accidente-en-mia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yaraisi Santiso Morejon filed the lawsuit following the death of her husband, 53-year-old Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, who was killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the lawsuit, Amazon Air Flight 7598 landed at MIA on Sunday before overrunning Runway 30 and striking vehicles on and near airport property, including a van driven by Rodriguez Naranjo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The lawsuit names Amazon Inc. and Amazon Air Cargo as defendants, along with 21 Air LLC and other related companies involved in operating the aircraft, the plane\u2019s lessors and pilots Joseph Carroll and Jaime Felipe Silva Molina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The complaint alleges a series of failures contributed to the crash, including pilot error, inadequate training and the use of a 32-year-old aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur hearts go out to Yaraisi and her family, as well as all those who were impacted by what we believe was a preventable tragedy,\u201d Morgan &amp; Morgan founder John Morgan said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cNo one should lose their loved one this way, and the filing of this lawsuit is just the beginning of our fight to secure justice and accountability for Mr. Naranjo\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Attorney Mike Morgan said the firm alleges the crash was not a \u201cfreak accident,\u201d but instead a \u201cforeseeable and preventable disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we\u2019ve already uncovered points to a series of failures by the people flying the plane, the companies that put it in the air and the systems that were supposed to prevent this exact kind of tragedy,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cYaraisi deserves answers and justice. We intend to get her both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The widow of a man who was killed Sunday when an Amazon cargo plane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-394797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394797","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=394797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}