On a September Sunday at one of the nation's busiest cargo hubs, a Boeing 767 carrying Amazon freight overran the runway at Miami International Airport, killing five people aboard. The incident — captured in images of rising smoke and wreckage — reminds us that even the most routine passages through the sky carry within them the full weight of human vulnerability. The FAA now takes up the slow, careful work of understanding what went wrong, as it must whenever the systems we trust to hold us aloft fall short.
Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport, five dead
Five people died in the crash.