Amazon Cargo Plane Crash Raises Questions About Pilot Decision-Making
A cargo plane operated by Amazon's Prime Air crashed at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026, killing five people on the ground. The pilots survived the incident.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released preliminary information from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, which suggests that the plane was traveling too fast as it approached the runway.
According to the NTSB, the plane's nose and right landing gear touched down about 30 seconds before the recording ended, while it was traveling at 158 knots (approximately 181 mph). The pilots began braking several seconds later, when the plane was traveling at 146 knots (about 168 mph).
The NTSB also released a transcript from the cockpit voice recorder, which shows that one of the pilots cautioned that the aircraft was going too fast for almost two minutes before it crashed.