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NTSB Says Doomed Amazon Cargo Jet Was on Third Flight of Day
(MENAFN) The Boeing cargo plane that skidded off a runway at Miami International Airport and killed five people had already completed two flights earlier that day before the fatal crash, federal investigators said Monday.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters the aircraft, Amazon Air Flight 7598, had flown from Cincinnati to Miami and on to San Juan before returning to Miami for its final, catastrophic landing.
"I would describe it in one word of devastating, utter devastation," Homendy said.
According to investigators, the 1994-built Boeing 767-33 Alpha touched down on Runway 30 at 1:53 p.m. local time (1753 GMT) Sunday and failed to stop in time, sliding roughly 1,300 feet (396 meters) beyond the paved surface.
The out-of-control jet slammed into a white Ford Econoline van carrying seven workers from a contract cleaning crew before tearing through the airport's perimeter fence. It then struck a Toyota Corolla Cross SUV traveling on a nearby public road and finally skidded to a halt close to a Tesla Robotaxi station, Homendy said.
Miami-Dade County officials reported five deaths and five injuries from the crash, with three victims listed in critical condition.
A 32-member NTSB team has since recovered the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which are now being flown to Washington for detailed analysis, Homendy said.
Investigators are zeroing in on one critical absence at the runway's end: an Engineered Materials Arresting System, or EMAS — a crushable-material bed engineered to safely halt planes that overshoot a runway. Homendy said the agency will determine whether such a system, had it been installed, might have softened or prevented the impact.
The probe is also examining pilot and crew performance, the mechanical condition of the aircraft, and the business arrangement between Amazon and 21 Air LLC, the company that operated the flight. Crews at the crash site are still working to contain extensive fuel spills that have made the area hazardous.
Homendy cautioned that without action on whatever safety recommendations emerge from the investigation, accidents like this one are likely to happen again.
The crash triggered a full shutdown of Miami International Airport's runways, snarling air travel across the region. Two runways have since reopened, though disruptions continue.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters the aircraft, Amazon Air Flight 7598, had flown from Cincinnati to Miami and on to San Juan before returning to Miami for its final, catastrophic landing.
"I would describe it in one word of devastating, utter devastation," Homendy said.
According to investigators, the 1994-built Boeing 767-33 Alpha touched down on Runway 30 at 1:53 p.m. local time (1753 GMT) Sunday and failed to stop in time, sliding roughly 1,300 feet (396 meters) beyond the paved surface.
The out-of-control jet slammed into a white Ford Econoline van carrying seven workers from a contract cleaning crew before tearing through the airport's perimeter fence. It then struck a Toyota Corolla Cross SUV traveling on a nearby public road and finally skidded to a halt close to a Tesla Robotaxi station, Homendy said.
Miami-Dade County officials reported five deaths and five injuries from the crash, with three victims listed in critical condition.
A 32-member NTSB team has since recovered the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which are now being flown to Washington for detailed analysis, Homendy said.
Investigators are zeroing in on one critical absence at the runway's end: an Engineered Materials Arresting System, or EMAS — a crushable-material bed engineered to safely halt planes that overshoot a runway. Homendy said the agency will determine whether such a system, had it been installed, might have softened or prevented the impact.
The probe is also examining pilot and crew performance, the mechanical condition of the aircraft, and the business arrangement between Amazon and 21 Air LLC, the company that operated the flight. Crews at the crash site are still working to contain extensive fuel spills that have made the area hazardous.
Homendy cautioned that without action on whatever safety recommendations emerge from the investigation, accidents like this one are likely to happen again.
The crash triggered a full shutdown of Miami International Airport's runways, snarling air travel across the region. Two runways have since reopened, though disruptions continue.
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