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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...

A man was arrested in Brooklyn on federal charges after he allegedly stole nine coronavirus stimulus checks from the mail. The US Postal Inspection Service arrested 31-year-old Feng Chen on Tuesday. Chen was seen rummaging through mail at four different buildings in Sunset Park on Friday, April 24, according to federal prosecutors. At the time of his arrest authorities said Feng had multiple credit cards, mail and checks bearing different names. He was charged with possession of stolen property and criminal trespass. In a bulletin obtained by ABC News, the Postal Inspection Service warned about the potential theft of stimulus...

An Asiana Airlines Inc. captain nervous about making a manual landing in San Francisco inadvertently disabled a speed-control system before the plane crashed into a seawall on July 6, documents show. Lee Kang Kuk, a veteran pilot with Seoul-based Asiana who was being trained on the Boeing Co. 777-200ER wide-body, had momentarily adjusted the power without realizing the plane’s computers then assumed he wanted the engines to remain at idle, according to information released today at a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board hearing. The documents, while showing the pilots made errors, raise questions about how auto-throttles on Boeing planes are...