Crime & Safety
Amazon Cargo Plane Crash Victims Were In Vehicles That Were Hit, NTSB Says
All those who were killed were in the two vehicles that were hit, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Monday during a news conference.
September 8, 206
The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update Monday afternoon on its investigation into what caused an Amazon cargo plane to overshoot a runway at Miami International Airport and crash into two vehicles before coming to a stop and bursting into flames on Sunday.
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Five people were killed, and at least five others were injured, officials said. All those who were killed were in the two vehicles that were hit, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Monday during a news conference. The NTSB also said it recovered both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.
Homendy said the flight, Amazon Air Flight 7598, was a Boeing 767-33 Alpha operated by 21 Air LLC. It had arrived from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was on its third flight of the day, having gone from Cincinnati to Miami, then Miami to San Juan and back to Miami.
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