On a Sunday afternoon in Miami, an Amazon Air cargo jet arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico overran the runway at Miami International Airport, crossed the airport boundary, and struck vehicles on an adjacent road before catching fire — killing five people and injuring five more. The moment collapsed the ordinary into catastrophe, transforming a routine landing into a major emergency that halted all airport operations and drew more than sixty firefighters to the scene. As investigators begin the slow work of understanding what failed — whether in machine, method, or circumstance — the event sta
Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport, 5 dead
Five people confirmed dead and five injured when the cargo plane struck vehicles on the road after overshooting the runway.