Posted on 09/06/2026 10:17:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
At least five people are dead and five others are injured after an Amazon Prime Air plane, a Boeing 767, crashed at Miami International Airport due to overshooting the runway upon landing.
The cargo plane overran Runway 30, struck multiple vehicles, and came to rest at a field next to the airport.
“21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
"Prime Air Flight 7598 overran Miami International Airport’s diagonal runway at approximately 2 p.m. today, leaving the aircraft disabled at the northwest end of the airport. All MIA runways and taxiways are currently closed, and a full ground stop is in effect," Miami International Airport stated.
"Passengers with flights scheduled today should check directly with their airline for flight status updates before heading to the airport," it added.
NBC News shared further:
Three people were in critical condition and were taken to a trauma center, and two others were taken to a local hospital, Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied Jadallah said.
A hotline has been set up for relatives of people who may have been involved in the accident. The scene remains active.
Video showed plumes of smoke billowing from the wreckage. The plane, Jadallah said, struck “a couple of vehicles.”
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the flight was operated by 21 Air and was coming in to land when the incident occurred.
“We’re heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss,” Nantel said.
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CBS News has more:
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) said the plane hit several vehicles near the 2100 block of Northwest 42nd Avenue, and more than 60 of its units were responding. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said it is also responding.
MDFR said when the crews arrived, they found the plane with heavy smoke and flames showing had stopped beyond the airport's operational boundary. Using foam and specialized airport firefighting units, MDFR crews fought to extinguish the fire. Crews also conducted search and rescue operations for the pilots and co-pilots inside the cockpit while locating and assessing patients throughout the scene, MDFR said.
One person was trapped under an involved vehicle and was extricated by specialized MDFR technical rescue personnel, officials said.
Likely to separate taxiing cargo aircraft from passenger aircraft, and to allow the cargo aircraft to be closer to its loading and unloading area. The airplane crashed into the parking lot of the Amazon warehouse.
Someone speculated that the flaps were in the wrong position for landing............
They already have the B and C teams doing what the A team did previously but in addition, pilots taking the Labor Day weekend off could have left the D team to the task, especially foreigners for whom Labor Day has little or no meaning and thus wouldn't take days off for it.
FWIW, that’s not it since that runway routinely handles both passenger and cargo aircraft.
Yeah, you can tell which websites don't want to offend Amazon as an advertiser.
Or all three
Depending on the cargo facility, in this case Amazon, it looks like it's an easier taxi from Runway 26 than from 9 to the Amazon cargo terminal.
Also, they may have been using 26 for landings and 9 for takeoffs.
Likely was easier for all involved.
When conditions permit.
For anyone else curious, per AI and sourced to Time magazine...
“Overview of 21 Air and Amazon PartnershipPartnership
Start: North Carolina-based and Miami-headquartered cargo carrier 21 Air began operating Boeing 767-300 freighters on behalf of Amazon Air in late 2024.
Fleet Share: 21 Air operates a small fraction (around 8 planes) of Amazon’s broader cargo network, which utilizes over 100 aircraft through various third-party contractors.”
scary stuff
I was mistooken. Now that more complete information is available, the fire did in fact start in the #2 engine.
Why not just wait until we know more instead of exposing your childish ignorant garbage?
Except you don’t know jack about the cause of the accident.
Embarrassing.
And then people wonder why postings have curtailed here and then wonder why people don’t donate.
Perhaps, but that would be technically an overshoot, not an overrun.
If it truly was an overrun.. I would not assume its pilot error as most likely culprit.
Of course the media could be misreporting, and calling it an overrun when it was indeed an overshoot.
Initial data and visual reports suggest the plane overshot the landing zone by a large margin and then overran the end of the runway by a large margin.
From videos I’ve seen it looks like the pilot flying was fighting a quartering crosswind and/or windshear and landed too fast and too long. I never saw the spoilers deploy on rollout. Pilot should have initiated a go-around. Maybe a go-around was attempted but was rejected/failed for some reason.
In any case, barring mechanical failure, the pilots will be ex-pilots.
On another board someone mentioned that the flaps were wrong. There is a video of the landing before the crash.......
A few simple fixes would be great. Who even knows html code anymore? And to just post a pic is dreadfully obscure. Find pic. Find pic hosting site. Send pic to hosting site. Link pic to posting site. Post pic.
Just go back to FORTRAN.
Then that is an overshoot not an overran
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