On a stormy Sunday in Miami, a cargo plane carrying no passengers nonetheless delivered the heaviest of losses — five lives ended not in the sky, but on the ground, inside a van where airport workers rode between the quiet tasks that keep air travel possible. The Boeing 767, operated by 21 Air on behalf of Amazon, overshot the runway at Miami International Airport by some 1,300 feet, breaching a fence and crushing the vehicle where Rolando Aleman Leon, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, Julio C. Pineda, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo had gathered as part of an ordinary workday. Invest
Amazon cargo plane attempted go-around before Miami crash that killed 5
Five airport workers—Rolando Aleman Leon (55), Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo (53), Julio C. Pineda (75), Carlos Acosta Fajardo (53), and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo (47)—were killed in the van; five others injured with two in critical condition.