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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At this point its pretty clear pilot effed up, or at very least decided to continue with a landing, after exiting the landing envelope at multiple stages, thinking they could save it.
I’m not naive enough to believe this is the first or last pilot to decide to continue to attempt a landing in such situations rather than a go around, and most often those that choose too wind up getting away with it.
From what it looks like, the last second attempt to try a go around and then back off it, rather than just break with everything might have stopped it from hitting the road... Had the air breaks and reverse thrusters been deployed and they gone all in rather than spend 4 seconds trying to take back off, they likely would have not reached the road...
Well, like I always say, I enjoy the career I am in.. when I make a mistake, it stinks, but nobody dies.
It seemed that way to me too.
“Not to mention this outfit seems to be pretty sketchy. I doubt top talent wants to work for such.”
I was told yesterday by a pilot of a major airline that Prime Air has the reputation of hiring folks that other airlines pass over.
When I saw it it was obvious from the get-go that the talking heads were being trolled. They were trying to be so serious, but that only added to the comedic effect.
Matt Walsh has a take on this that no one else is talking about. He says that the crew were hired by contractors and that this is attributable to DEI. I believe him.
The Amazon Wide body flew multiple legs before Mia. Maybe he was short on fuel and took the downwind runway and couldn’t make a go around and dropped it in. There was very little fire after the crash. Kind of like the Korean wide body the hit the embankment at SFO years ago; flew multiple legs and did not take on any fuel. Seems he ran out of fuel on final.
How ‘bout illegal aliens licensed by an FAA office in California?
Matt must be smoking something.
Stop it! You’ll upset the narrative that the DEI fanatics are trying to push!
As if we didn’t already have enough of our own homegrown incompetents
The go around is pretty violent initially as those engines really bite when the jet is in flight with take off power.
Latest Captain Steeeve video, with cockpit transcript. He’s absolutely incensed about what went on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6G7EOP5Qc
The pilot is American.
It doesn't work that way. Airliners potentially short of fuel declare a fuel mayday
They still know the plane’s status, and will often order the wave off.
How does someone “look” Venezuelan?
Up to making a wager on what I will call the command pilot is a native born US citizen?
I’m trying to help you out here with your ignorance. Help me help you.
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