Fatal Amazon Boeing Plane Crash at Miami Airport: What We Know

An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday. (Getty Images)

Key Points

• Five people died after an Amazon Boeing 767 cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport, crashed into vehicles and caught fire.
• The aircraft, operated by 21 Air, was a 32-year-old Boeing 767-300 freighter that departed from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• The Federal Aviation Administration launched an investigation, and 21 Air said it is cooperating with the FAA and the NTSB.

Five people have died after an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport, crashing into vehicles and catching fire.

The plane, a Boeing 767-300 freighter operated by 21 Air, overran the runway after landing at around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a social-media post on X. The FAA, which immediately launched an investigation, said the aircraft departed from Luis Munoz Marin International in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Boeing aircraft is 32 years old and was used for commercial flights between 1994 and 2015 before being converted to a cargo plane, according to flight-tracker Flightradar 24.

Officials confirmed that at least five people have died, with several more injured, during a televised press conference.

“We’re heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said.

“The airplane, which was operated by 21 Air, was attempting to land when this incident occurred,” she added.

21 Air is an all-cargo airline based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The airline details two types of aircraft on its website, the Boeing 767-300 and Boeing 767-200. The former, it said, has excellent fuel efficiency, operational flexibility and can carry 55 tons.

“We are devastated by the accident involving one of our aircraft in Miami today,” CEO Keith Winters said in a statement, adding that the company was cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA.

The aircraft flew from Miami to Luis Munoz Marin earlier in the day, departing at 6.49 a.m. ET, according to another flight-tracking site FlightAware. It also flew from Cincinnati to Miami in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Around 200 personnel from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived “to find an airplane that had stopped beyond the airport operational boundary with heavy flames and smoke showing,” the fire service said in a post on X. They transported five patients to local area hospitals.

More than 100 flights departing Miami International were canceled Sunday, or around 17% of the schedule, while 24% were delayed by more than 15 minutes, according to data from flight tracker FlightAware. Cancellations early Monday morning were down to around 2%.

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