{"id":416079,"date":"2026-10-01T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416079\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:26:11","slug":"preliminary-ntsb-report-details-how-amazon-cargo-plane-overran-mia-runway-killing-5-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416079\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary NTSB report details how Amazon cargo plane overran MIA runway, killing 5 \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Transportation Safety Board has released their preliminary report detailing how an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport last month<\/a>, killing five people in a van on the ground.<\/p>\n

The 12-page report released by the NTSB on Thursday doesn’t give a possible cause of the Sept. 6 crash of the Boeing 767, but does offer details about how fast it was going and how it ran off the runway.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the plane touched down about 3,750 feet past the threshold of the 9,360-foot runway at a ground speed of 160 knots, or about 184 mph.<\/p>\n

The plane reached the end of the runway at around 130 mph before going off the paved surface and onto the grass, before slamming into a van carrying workers from a plane cleaning company and an SUV and finally stopping about 1,200 feet from the paved surface, the report said.<\/p>\n

Five of the seven employees of the cleaning company were killed, and five other people were hurt including the driver of the SUV. The two pilots weren’t seriously injured.<\/p>\n

The last recorded ground speed of the plane was around 75 mph just after it crashed through a perimeter fence and crossed Northwest 67th Avenue.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA survivor of the Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport was “flung into the air” and suffered multiple fractures after the jet hit the van he was sitting in, according to a new lawsuit filed Friday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Data from one of the flight recorders showed the plane’s speed brakes remains stowed and the thrust reversers didn’t deploy during the landing and landing rollout, the report said.<\/p>\n

Wheel brakes were manually applied at a groundspeed of 168 mph but the brake pedals were released about eight seconds later as the speed dropped to 138 mph, and the “throttle resolver angle for both engines increased to go-around thrust values” with about 930 feet of runway remaining, the report said.<\/p>\n

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About four seconds later, the wheel brakes were reapplied with about 415 feet of runway remaining, and the plane ran off the runway, the report said.<\/p>\n

The account matches information previously released by the NTSB that said one of the pilots tried to warn the other that they were going too fast as they approached for landing and that the plane had touched down awkwardly and briefly attempted to take off before the crash.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFederal investigators revealed new details Tuesday in the investigation into a deadly plane crash at Miami International Airport that left five people dead. NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A summary of cockpit voice recordings compiled by the NTSB said the fellow pilot never gave “a consistent verbal response” to the warnings.<\/p>\n

The preliminary report includes a summary of the cockpit recordings from the last few minutes of the flight in which there were a series of automated warnings from the plane about the speed of descent and the approaching terrain.<\/p>\n

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An image from the NTSB preliminary report on the Amazon cargo plane crash at MIA.<\/p>\n

Also included in the report is information about the weather and wind in the area during the landing, which said sensors showed wind at 17 knots, or 19.5 mph, with gusts to around 30 mph around the time of the landing as thunderstorms reached the area.<\/p>\n

The report said the controller issued a landing clearance to the plane “but did not issue information about the wind.”<\/p>\n

“Per FAA Order JO 7110.65BB, titled ‘Air Traffic Control,’ both wind direction and velocity were required to be stated when authorizing use of a runway when a tailwind component exists,” the report said.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Following the crash, Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air<\/a>, the cargo airline that flew the plane, and multiple family members of the people killed or injured in the crash have filed lawsuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPreliminary black box data has been released after the crash, but officials stress they are very early in their investigation. NBC6’s Briana Nespral reports.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In a statement Thursday, 21 Air said they were reviewing the NTSB report and will “take all appropriate action to improve our safety based on the facts as they are established.”<\/p>\n

“Our focus since the accident has been on supporting everyone affected, to include providing resources to those who were injured, the loved ones of those who lost their lives, and our colleagues and commercial partners. We also continue to work closely with the NTSB as a party to the investigation and will do so until its investigation is complete,” the statement read, in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Transportation Safety Board has released their preliminary report detailing how an Amazon cargo plane overran a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-416079","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\/416079","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=416079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}