Crashed Amazon cargo jet struck two vehicles, ended up 1,300 feet past runway, NTSB says

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An Amazon cargo plane crashed after overshooting the runway at Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami, Florida, on Sept. 6, 2026. The Boeing 767-300, operated by 21 Air as Prime Air Flight 7598, overshot the runway and burst into flames on Sunday, killing at least five people and shutting down the airport's runways. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Amazon cargo jet that crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday overran the runway by about 1,300 feet, crashing into vehicles both inside and outside the airport boundary and killing multiple people, a federal official said Monday. The accident killed at least five people and injured at least five others. The scene of the accident is "utter devastation," Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said during a press briefing Monday. "There's debris everywhere," she said. Homendy didn't offer details on the cause of the crash. Investigators, who will be on site for at least a week, "will not be determining probable cause while we are on the scene," Homendy said. Investigators recovered the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, which will arrive at NTSB headquarters late...

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