On a Sunday afternoon in Miami, a routine cargo flight from Puerto Rico became a catastrophe when an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 overran the runway, struck vehicles, and caught fire, killing at least five people. The accident, unfolding in the ordinary rhythm of one of America's busiest airports, reminds us how swiftly the familiar can become the unthinkable. Federal investigators have begun the slow, careful work of understanding what broke down in those final moments of an otherwise unremarkable arrival.
Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport, killing at least five
At least five people were killed and multiple others injured when the cargo plane struck vehicles at the airport; three were critically injured and two hospitalized with less severe injuries.