Posted on 09/07/2026 7:30:48 PM PDT by dynachrome
Federal regulators said the two crew members aboard the Amazon cargo jet that crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday survived the accident.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) provided the update during a Sunday press conference after officials said the cargo plane overran the runway and caught fire while landing. The crash killed five people and injured five others, authorities said Sunday.
The jet collided with two vehicles carrying at least eight occupants, according to NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy.
Seven of the victims were in a van that was struck and "torn apart" on airport grounds, Homendy said. The 2012 white Ford Econoline van was owned by Ocean Service Corporation, a contract cleaning company that provides services for airlines, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
Came in too fast on a short runway. Should have powered out and gone around.
Performance review was on their minds not safety
Seems the company did a lot of DEI hires.
I hope they survive, but I don’t think I’d want to be on a plane where they are the pilots. I suspect they’ve flown their last, professionally at least.
Looks like they came in hot, landed long and were not properly configured for landing (flaps and slats).
CC
From what I saw of the plane it looked very unlikely that they would have been killed. One side of the plane was burned up. But I don’t think the fire got inside. Not sure. And they would have not experienced any serious G’s in the crash by the looks of it.
Coulter's Rule is from Ann Coulter who pointed out that the longer we go without being told the race of a shooter, the less likely it is to be a white man.
Corollaries to Coulter's Rule apply to crimes other than shootings, including politically inconvenient screwups caused by such things as Didn't Earn It (DEI) hiring.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.