Posted on 09/10/2026 7:48:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
The pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami, killing five people, were issued multiple warnings for flying “too low” to the ground — and acknowledged they were going “too fast” before they overshot the runway, officials said.
The National Transit Safety Board (NTSB) released transcripts from the Boeing 767’s cockpit voice recorder Wednesday that revealed one of the two pilots made a remark about the plane’s high rate of speed about 100 seconds before they hit the ground.
“The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording. There was not a consistent verbal response to the comments about speed,” the NTSB said
The autopilot appears to have disconnected seconds later, according to the recording, and a “too low terrain” callout was issued electronically four times.
The recording then captured the plane landing on the runway and ”sounds similar to the aircraft departing the paved surface.”
Prime Air flight 7598 crashed on the runway at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. Sunday before plowing into multiple vehicles and bursting into flames, officials said.
Five people died in the incident. Five others were injured, including the pilots, identified Tuesday as Felipe Silva Molina, 37, and Joseph Carroll, 55.
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97% of the Amazon van drivers in my area are DEI.
So, when will we know if it was a DIE pilot landing?
IMO:
We’re not going to find some sort of “obvious smoking gun” in either pilot’s background. So far, on paper, they seem well qualified to be flying a heavy freighter. For reasons I hope we will find out, they made some catastrophically bad decisions on their approach. Rather than saying “eff it ... let’s go around” they were bound and determined to get it on the deck. They succeeded ... in the long run, landing is mandatory ... but in the process caused a disaster.
By who (or is it "whom"?)?
I think Columbian.
Ground Proximity Warning System, most likely..........
Why didn’t the tower order them to go around?
My primary flight instructor used to say “never fall in love with a landing”. I didn’t get it at first then I found out it means we all get it wrong every once in a while so no shame in going around.
When you land at a Navy Air facility, before final, the pilot is required to say “landing checklist complete, gear down and locked, READY FOR THE GO AROUND”.
That about says it all.
Well, they released their names, ages and flight hours.
PRISON
The tower is not flying the plane.
Yes, they were.
I remember my dad reviewing the flight patterns for go arounds before flying to a new airport. They assign specific go around patterns to avoid interfering with other air traffic.
One more thing ... when they land on a carrier, they slam in FULL POWER ... only reduce to idle when it is clear they caught a wire.
It’s baked in to NavAir that the landing is fxxked until proven otherwise.
Too bad these two pilots didn’t have that mentality.
21 Air See Matt Walsh.
Better an exciting go-around than ending up 1300 feet off the end of the runway and smashing a couple cars in the process.
I believe they were ESL pilots. Learning the language used by ATCs might be a good idea. Just sayin’.
Evidently they are penalized by their bosses foe go around.
Amazon is evil
Amazon say, use a DEI hire and your plane catches fire.
Hey! Filepe, didn’t you see that stop sign.
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