Amazon Cargo Plane Crash: Pilots May Have Considered Abort Landing
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), pilots flying an Amazon Prime Air Boeing cargo plane may have considered aborting the landing before it crashed in Miami on Sunday. The incident resulted in five fatalities when the aircraft overshot the runway and collided with two vehicles.
The NTSB's Chair, Jennifer Homendy, stated that both pilots will be interviewed as part of the investigation. The agency will also release a readout of the onboard voice recording from the cockpit.
Analysis of the recorded data revealed that the nose landing gear and right main landing gear touched down 30 seconds before the end of the recording, while the left main landing gear touched down 19 seconds beforehand. Brakes were released 15 seconds before the end of the recording at a ground speed of 120 knots (138 mph).
However, according to Homendy, there was no indication that the aircraft's speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed. The captain had 7,145 hours of flight time, and the first officer had 2,655 flying hours.