Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshoots runway and crashes in Miami, killing at least 5 people

At least five people were killed, and five more injured, authorities said, after an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, striking multiple vehicles and erupting into a blaze.

At a news conference Sunday afternoon, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said the engine was shut down, the fire had been contained, and there was no ongoing threat to the public. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.

"This is a fast-moving situation, and we're still gathering details," Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in an X post on Sunday. "We're working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened."

The five people who died were inside the cleaning van, Cordero-Stutz said on Tuesday.

Homendy also said there was a team of 32 investigators on-site, and that the NTSB has recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, also known as black boxes, which are actually colored orange.

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In a subsequent Tuesday evening presser, Homendy shared details of the aircraft's pilots. The 55-year-old captain had over 7,000 hours of flying experience and received his type rating for the Boeing 767 in May, she said. The first officer, 37, had about 2,600 hours of flying experience and received his type rating in April 2025.

Shin said the brakes were applied once the plane's right landing gear touched down; its left touched down seconds after. The brakes were then released about 15 seconds before the recording ended, and Shin said the throttles were increased to levels "consistent with go-around thrust."

Homendy added that NTSB would release a readout of the cockpit voice recorder on Wednesday.

The plane took off from Puerto Rico at noon and reached Miami around 2 p.m., according to data from the aviation tracking website Flightradar24. The website also showed the plane was traveling at 112 knots as it exited the usable part of the runway and the perimeter fence, ultimately going about 1,300 feet past the pavement into an area where Tesla robotaxis were stationed. Weather data shows there were thunderstorms and gusting winds at the time of the crash.

The plane involved was a Boeing 767-300 freighter, registered as N1997A, and first delivered as a passenger jet in 1994 to the now-defunct Belgian airline Sobelair. It passed through several more airlines before being converted into a freighter by a third party — not Boeing — and re-entering service in 2016. That means it had been operated and maintained by multiple companies over three decades before Sunday's crash.

Homendy said a key piece of the investigation will be whether an Engineered Materials Arresting System (EMAS), a crushable material placed at the ends of runways to help stop overrun planes, would have helped in this crash.