Amazon Cargo Plane Crash Kills Five in Miami

An Amazon Air cargo plane that overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday crashed into a van, killing five people. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are working to determine what caused the accident.

The NTSB has recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the plane, which was arriving from Puerto Rico with about 32,000 pounds of cargo, mostly contact lenses. The recording contains 2 hours of good-quality audio, while the flight data recorder holds 55 hours' worth of data.

According to the NTSB, some data has already been reviewed, indicating that the plane was coming in for landing but then increased throttle consistent with a 'go-around thrust.' Brakes were reapplied and continued to be applied until the end of the recording, but there is no indication that speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed.

The NTSB expects to interview the two pilots who were in the cockpit at the time of the crash. Once they have been interviewed, a readout from the voice recorder will be released on Wednesday.