Federal investigators recovered both flight recorders from an Amazon Air cargo jet operated by 21 Air that overran Runway 30 at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing five members of an airport cleaning crew and injuring five other people.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said during a Monday media briefing that investigators would send the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder to the agency’s laboratory in Washington for evaluation. Investigators have not determined what caused the crash.
Jet strikes cleaning van
Flight 7598 was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico, with two pilots aboard at about 1:53 p.m. The Boeing 767-300 left the paved runway, hit airport navigation equipment and struck a 2012 Ford Econoline van carrying seven employees of Professional Ocean Service Corp.
The jet then crossed the airport perimeter fence and hit a Toyota Corolla Cross traveling on Northwest 67th Avenue. It stopped about 1,300 feet beyond the paved runway.
All five people killed were in the van and ranged in age from 47 to 75. The pilots had left the hospital, while two other injured people remained in critical condition and another was stable, authorities said Tuesday.
Probe focuses on landing
The NTSB plans to examine the jet’s touchdown point, speed, braking performance, aircraft systems, crew actions, weather, air traffic control and runway safety measures.
Investigators will also review the airport’s lack of an engineered materials arresting system, which uses a bed of crushable material to slow aircraft that overrun a runway. The system is not installed at every U.S. airport.
Homendy said investigators would document the scene and collect evidence before moving the aircraft. She called the crash path “utter devastation” and said debris, damaged fencing and jet fuel remained across the area Monday.
The Miami accident came less than a year after UPS Flight 2976 crashed near Louisville on November 4, 2025, killing 15 people and injuring 23 people on the ground, as The Dallas Express previously reported.
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