Flight Recorders Recovered: Amazon Cargo Plane Crash
The Boeing 767-300 was operating under Amazon's air cargo network when it overshot the runway and struck the vehicles.
Flight recorders from the Amazon-branded Boeing 767-300 that overran a runway at Miami International Airport have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed, as investigators work to establish why the cargo jet failed to stop before reaching ground vehicles beyond the runway's end.
Five people were killed in the collision — all of them civilians who happened to be in the aircraft's path. Four died inside a van carrying a cleaning crew; a fifth was in a separate passenger vehicle. Five others were seriously injured, according to the NTSB. None of the dead were on the plane.
The Boeing 767-300 was operating under Amazon's air cargo network when it overshot the runway and struck the vehicles. Boeing 767 freighter variants have logged millions of hours across global cargo operations, making runway excursions of this severity statistically rare — though not unprecedented.
The recovered flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder will now be transported to the NTSB's Washington laboratory, where analysts will reconstruct the aircraft's final approach parameters, braking performance, and crew communications. Investigators have not yet indicated whether weather, mechanical failure, or crew action is the leading hypothesis.
Miami International Airport partially resumed operations after the incident. The NTSB has said a preliminary report should be available within 30 days.
For a cleaning crew heading to a job on an ordinary Tuesday, the runway was the last thing between them and morning. It should not have been.
