On a September afternoon in Miami, a cargo plane carrying Amazon freight overshot its runway by a quarter mile, struck vehicles, and caught fire — killing at least five people in a moment that has since rippled outward into questions about institutional accountability, aging aircraft, and the human cost of decisions made in the final seconds of flight. Amazon's subsequent pause of all operations with carrier 21 Air reflects an old tension in commerce: the pressure to move fast, and the price paid when systems built for speed encounter the limits of human judgment. Investigators are now tracing
Amazon halts 21 Air operations after Miami cargo crash kills five
At least five people killed and five injured when the cargo aircraft struck vehicles after overshooting the runway.