Flight data indicates the Amazon cargo plane that went off the runway at the Miami International Airport (MIA) attempted to abort an unsteady landing before crashing into a van, killing five people, and an SUV, injuring three more.
“No indication in the recorded data that speed or thrust reversers were deployed,” National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator Chihoon Shin stated during a press conference.
Former Federal Aviation Administration official Mike O’Donnell also suggested that the pilots may have hesitated based on the plane’s landing.
“A go-around probably should have been executed sooner than that. And it seems like they hesitated,” O’Donnell asserted, citing the plane’s landing on its nose and right landing gear.
NTSB Will Release Evidence After Pilot Interviews
NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy confirmed that investigators have recovered the plane’s cockpit recorder and flight data recorder from the accident site.
“The cockpit voice recorder contained more than two hours of good-quality audio,” Chair Homendy affirmed.
Homendy shared that investigators will be interviewing the flight’s pilots on Sep. 9, 2026, and that the NTSB will release a readout of the audio from the cockpit voice recorder after getting accounts of the accident from the pilots.
Details on The Incident
On Sept. 6, 2026, Prime Air Flight 7568 overran the runway while landing at MIA around 2 p.m. ET after departing from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The plane first hit a van used to shuttle crews that clean planes before tearing down a fence and crossing a public road, where it struck an SUV, Chair Homendy confirmed.
Information on The Victims
Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz identified the five deceased as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.
The pilot and co-pilot have been released from the hospital, while two people remain in critical condition and a third is in stable condition.
