GoKawiilAn 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.
The 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 later Monday for evaluation, she said.
Investigators hope to be able to release additional information abut the crash on Tuesday, she said.
The plane, which was being operated for Amazon by 21 Air LLC, overran the runway around 2 p.m. Sunday. The flight was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was the third flight for the aircraft that day.
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