Washington:
Not less than 5 individuals have been killed, and three others have been critically injured after an Amazon cargo airplane skidded off the runway on the Miami Worldwide Airport and rammed automobiles parked on the aspect and engulfed in flames. Movies of the incident posted on social media confirmed a blue and white Boeing 767 overshooting the diagonal runway throughout touchdown and barrel-rolling into parked automobiles on a aspect street utilized by warehouse staff and different companies that encompass the airport.
After the airplane, working as Prime Air Flight 7598, struck the automobiles, it caught fireplace, with clips displaying thick smoke billowing from the plane as fireplace vehicles raced to the scene.
🚨 BREAKING: New video reveals the Amazon Prime Air 767 OVERRUNNING Runway 30 in Miami, leaping a street, and coming to a cease earlier than catching fireplace
MANY extra lives would have been misplaced if Miami did not have an Arresting System (EMAS) on the finish of the runway.
Thank GOD for that.… pic.twitter.com/WixKhY8o1I
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 6, 2026
Casualties Reported
“The airplane did strike a few automobiles,” which left “a few victims that have been truly trapped within the automobiles,” Miami-Dade County fireplace chief Ray Jadallah informed reporters. He stated that along with 5 casualties, 5 others have been injured, and three of them have been transported to trauma facilities “in important situation.”
The accident occurred round 2 pm (native time) whereas the airplane was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The crash trapped the pilot and copilot within the cockpit and a few occupants in automobiles, in line with Jadallah. The company stated crews additionally needed to extricate an individual who was trapped below a automobile. It wasn’t instantly clear if the pilots survived or if these killed have been all in automobiles when the airplane struck.
Probe Launched
The crash halted flights on the busy journey hub for a lot of the afternoon, with the airport closing all runways and taxiways and asking travellers to examine immediately with their airline earlier than heading to the airport.
“A complete of 60 fireplace apparatuses arrived, simply brief, simply shy of 200 women and men from Miami-Dade Hearth Rescue, to start the precise search and rescue and firefighting,” Jadallah stated.
“The precise explanation for the incident shall be decided by the FAA and the NTSB,” he added, referring to the Federal Aviation Administration and Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
The NTSB stated in an X submit that they’ve “launched a go staff to research Sunday’s runway tour accident.”
Amazon’s Assertion
Amazon put out an announcement saying the plane “skilled an incident whereas making an attempt to land.” It didn’t say if anybody was harm or killed.
“It is a fast-moving state of affairs, and we’re nonetheless gathering particulars. We’re working intently with native authorities and officers to grasp precisely what occurred,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel stated within the assertion.
In an analogous incident final yr, a UPS airplane crashed after shedding its engine whereas accelerating down the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali Worldwide Airport. The crash killed all three pilots and 12 individuals on the bottom. Twenty-three extra have been injured.
