Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshoots runway and crashes in Miami, killing at least 5 people
An Amazon Prime plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport and crashed on Sunday.
Marco Bello/REUTERS An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday.
The Boeing 767 had flown from San Juan, Puerto Rico, the FAA said.
At least five people were killed in the crash, authorities said.
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.
Videos from the scene showed a fire and thick black smoke rising from the plane.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said in a Sunday evening statement that more than 60 of its units and about 200 personnel responded to the incident, arriving to find an airplane with "heavy flames and smoke showing." At an afternoon news conference, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said the fire had been contained and that there was no ongoing threat to the public.
It was not immediately clear on Sunday how many people were on the plane, and whether those killed were people on the ground.
Officials did not identify the deceased.
An Amazon spokesperson said that "an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport." "This is a fast-moving situation and we're still gathering details," the spokesperson, Kelly Nantel, said in an X post around 4 p.m.
"We're working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened." Of the five people who were injured, three were taken to a trauma center, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said.
The other two were taken to area hospitals.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said HazMat units safely shut down the plane's engine.
"Firefighters encountered a complex engine compartment fire and used foam from specialized airport firefighting units to extinguish the flames," the agency said.
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