Amazon Cargo Plane Crash in Miami Kills Five, Pilots Tried to Abort Landing. Here's what each side is saying, and what none of them are telling you.
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NTSB officials said that flight data recorder evidence from Saturday's Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport shows the pilots attempted a go around before the crash that killed five people on the ground. The data showed the nose and right landing gear touched down 30 seconds before the recording ended, the left landing gear touched down 19 seconds before the end, then the brakes were released and the throttles increased to go around thrust with no indication that speed brakes or thrust reversers deployed. The Boeing 767, operated by 21 Air LLC under contract to Amazon on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, traveled about 1,300 feet beyond the runway through a perimeter fence.
The Miami-Dade sheriff identified the five people killed as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, Julio C. Pineda, 75, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47, all employees of Professional Ocean Service Corporation who were struck in a Ford Econoline van. The victims were in a shuttle van used by an aircraft cleaning crew. Additional people were hospitalized, including men aged 79 and 32, with several remaining in critical condition.
NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the 55-year-old captain had 7,145 flight hours and the 37-year-old first officer had 2,655, and that the pilots would be interviewed Wednesday with cockpit voice recorder details released after that. CBS News identified the pilots as Captain Joseph Carroll, 55, and First Officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, both of 21 Air, who were treated and released from a Miami hospital.
Investigators are focused on the absence of runway deceleration systems at Miami International Airport, which is not among the 120 US airfields equipped with such crushable materials, though it complies with rules through a 1,000-foot safety buffer. Strong tailwinds exceeding 25 knots were reported, and air traffic controllers had not adjusted the landing direction for the wind. Two of the airport's four runways remained closed as more than 225 flights were canceled.
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The Guardian foregrounds the cockpit sequence and the human cost, leading with flight data showing the pilots released brakes and pushed throttles to go around thrust with no sign speed brakes or thrust reversers deployed. It centers the five named cleaning-crew victims and the surviving pilots released from the hospital, framing the story around the NTSB's step-by-step account and the pending pilot interviews. It leaves out the airport infrastructure questions and ta
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