The 767-33A was carrying cargo on contract for Amazon Prime when it came high and fast over the Runway 30 on Sunday, Sept. 6, travelling about 203 mph just seconds before it came to a stop by crashing into a van carrying an airport cleaning crew and an SUV.<\/p>\n
The plane was about 105 feet above the runway surface when it passed the threshold where it should have touched down, the report states. It was roughly 3,750 feet past that point when its landing gear finally made contact with the ground.<\/p>\n
Flying experts say pilots are not expected to touch down exactly at the threshold, but should be within a couple of hundred feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHalfway down the runway robs the aircraft of the window of opportunity needed to slow down,\u201d said Pablo Rojas, an airline safety attorney with the Podhurst Orseck lawfirm, which is representing a passenger injured in the van \u2014 one of several plaintiffs in lawsuits that have been filed in the wake of the crash.<\/p>\n
The plane then continued north down the runway at around 130 mph as it hit lighting systems before leaving the paved surface onto the grass at about 100 mph, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The 200,000-pound jet then went another 1,200 feet at around 74 mph before crossing Northwest 67th Avenue, crashing through a fence and hitting the Ford Econoline van with seven people inside and a Toyota Corolla Cross SUV with one person inside, NTSB investigators say.<\/p>\n
Flight-recorder data showed the pilots tried in the last seconds to lift off again to attempt to abort the landing, but there was not enough runway left. There was no indication that speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed, according to the flight recorder.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office identified five people who died<\/a> among the seven inside the Ford van: Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierk Reyes Quevedo, 47.<\/p>\n The driver of the Toyota, Eugenio Corredor, 79, was critically injured.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly tragic incident that has occurred,\u201d Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz told reporters at her agency\u2019s Doral headquarters. \u201cOne leaves their house to go to work, to visit family, to do what we normally do, without thinking that is even a possibility.<\/p>\n In light of the report, 21 Air released a statement saying that while their focus remains on supporting those affected by the crash, it is reviewing the NTSB\u2019s findings before taking \u201call appropriate action to improve our safety.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSafety management is a mindset the entire 21 Air team carries every day in everything we do. Since current ownership acquired the company in April 2021, safety has been a core focus of our organization,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n Flying time that day<\/p>\n The plane left from San Juan, Puerto Rico at 11:24 a.m. and wasn\u2019t scheduled to arrive at MIA until 2:28 p.m., the report states. It was the third flight of the day for the aircraft and the second flight of the day for the aircrew<\/a>, captain Joseph Carroll, 55, and 37-year-old Jaime Filipe Silva Molina, the first officer. There were no other crew members on the plane.<\/p>\n The day of the crash was also the first time the two men flew together, the NTSB said. That morning, their first flight was from Miami to San Juan, with Silva Molina flying and Carroll serving as the observer. It departed Florida at 6:35 a.m. and landed in Puerto Rico at 8:58 a.m., according to the report.<\/p>\n When the plane flew from Puerto Rico back to Miami, Carroll was the pilot and Silva Molina observed, the report states.<\/p>\n Carroll is a veteran pilot who was hired by 21 Air in April 2026. He has a total of 7,267 flying hours, 150 of which are on the plane that crashed.<\/p>\n Silva Molina was hired by 21 Air in February 2025. He as 2,800 hours of total flying experience, with 800 on the plane that crashed, the NTSB said.<\/p>\n Former pilots of 21 Air, the air-cargo company operating the Amazon Prime plane that fatal Sunday, had previously gone on record shining light on a host of safety complaints well before the crash.<\/p>\n Pilot Karl Seuring accused the North Carolina-based operator of not giving pilots enough time off between flights, violating take-off speed protocols and other risks that endangered the public and flight crews, according to March 2024 sworn statements in an ongoing Department of Labor dispute with his former employer.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Ex-pilots for cargo company in MIA crash had concerns about safety: documents<\/a><\/p>\n Don Helmig, a retired airline and military pilot who flew for 21 Air, quit his job after he believed management ignored significant safety issues, a resignation email obtained by the Miami Herald read.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter three months, everywhere I looked, there are issues,\u201d Helmig wrote in a June 12, 2021, resignation email to 21 Air\u2019s majority owner, Jim Crane, who also owns the Houston Astros baseball team. \u201cIn my opinion, what they wished me to do is say nothing, but that is not how Safety is supposed to operate, to \u2018pay lip service to [Safety Management Systems}\u2019 and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Amazon suspended ties with 21 Air<\/a>, the operator of the fatal Flight 7598, following the fatal crash at MIA.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the tragic incident last weekend, we\u2019ve spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances,\u201d Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a Sept. 13 statement.<\/p>\n The plane that crashed was built in 1994 and originally went into service as a passenger plane before being converted to carry cargo in 2016, according to the NTSB report.<\/p>\n In the wake of the fatal crash, several family members of the deceased and a survivor from the wreckage have all filed separate lawsuits against numerous companies they say are liable, including 21 Air and Amazon, as well as the pilots.<\/p>\n Aleman\u2019s children, Duviel and Aylen, are suing multiple companies, including 21 Air, Amazon and the pilots, for their involvement in the death of their father. Duviel was supposed to be in the van with his father but because of appendicitis was not, inadvertently saving his life.<\/p>\n READ MORE: He could have been killed in Amazon plane crash. Now, he wants justice<\/a><\/p>\n Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres was one of the seven in the van with Aleman, and only one of two who survived the impact form the Boeing 767. His lawyers filed a similar lawsuit against 21 Air, Amazon and the pilots.<\/p>\n In the complaint, his attorneys wrote, \u201cThere was nowhere for him to go and no time to escape.\u201d Perdomo Torres was ejected from the van and thrown to the ground, breaking his leg, ankle and hand.<\/p>\n Two other lawsuits have been filed in connection with the crash. The widow of the driver of the van, Rodriguez Naranjo, filed a complaint<\/a> against the same parties. The sons of Pineda, another cleaning-crew member in the van, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit as well.<\/p>\n READ MORE: \u2018Nowhere for him to go,\u2019 \u2018No time to escape.\u2019 Van survivor sues 21 Air, Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published October 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM.<\/p>\n David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n Miami Herald<\/p>\n David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n View of an Amazon cargo that plane crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, causing a full ground stop that halted all flights, on Sept. 6, 2026. pportal@miamiherad.com History of safety complaints<\/p>\n
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