{"id":395227,"date":"2026-09-09T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395227\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:44:08","slug":"witness-describes-shaken-pilot-moments-after-fatal-cargo-plane-crash-at-miami-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395227\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness describes shaken pilot moments after fatal cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A cargo plane pilot who <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\/\">escaped a fiery crash near Miami International Airport<\/a> was visibly shaken and urgently asked a nearby warehouse worker to use his phone to call his wife, a witness said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abraham Altamar was working Sunday near the airport when he heard a loud noise and ran outside with co-workers to investigate. He said they found thick, black smoke rising behind their floral warehouse near Northwest 36th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(As) soon as we saw the plane, we start running to see what was happening,\u201d Altamar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Altamar said he soon encountered 37-year-old Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, one of the pilots who had escaped the burning Prime Air cargo jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe was shaking, he seemed stressed,\u201d Altamar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Altamar said he offered to call 911, but Molina instead asked to use his phone to call his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI just asked him if he wanted me to call 911, but he\u2019s like, \u2018No, I need your phone to call my wife,\u201d&#8217; Altamar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Altamar said he overheard Molina expressing concern about his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe was like, \u2018Oh my career, my career is over,\u2019\u201d Altamar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Altamar said Molina had cuts to his forehead and arm. He was taken to a hospital Sunday, treated and released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other pilot was identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/09\/first-lawsuit-filed-following-fatal-amazon-cargo-plane-crash-at-miami-international-airport\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/09\/first-lawsuit-filed-following-fatal-amazon-cargo-plane-crash-at-miami-international-airport\/\">55-year-old Joseph Carroll<\/a>. He also suffered minor injuries and was treated and released from a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Altamar said the crash was difficult to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pilots were scheduled to speak with investigators about the accident and the actions they took before the aircraft overran the runway and crashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Interactive graphic<\/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 A cargo plane pilot who escaped a fiery crash near Miami International Airport was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-395227","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\/395227","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=395227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}