NTSB says Amazon cargo jet hit van, car after runway overrun

Robert Langreth, Bloomberg News on Sep 7, 2026

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The Boeing Co. 767 cargo jet that crashed at Miami International Airport overran the runway, and plowed through two vehicles before stopping roughly a quarter-mile past the paved surface, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its first detailed federal account of Sunday’s fatal accident.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy described the crash scene in a Labor Day news conference as “utter devastation” with “debris everywhere.” The accident killed five people and injured five others, Miami authorities said Sunday.

The jet hit a white Ford Econoline van after it went off the runway, leaving it “torn apart,” she said. It had been transporting a cleaning crew inside the airport perimeter and had seven people inside, Homendy said. The aircraft then hit a small Toyota SUV that was on a road just outside the airport fence. All the victims were from those two vehicles, she said.

The flight, operating for Amazon.com Inc., was operated by 21 Air LLC as a sub-contractor. Before it hit the cars, it also struck navigational equipment at the airport.

Homendy said the agency didn’t have access to the aircraft itself yet because recovery operations were still ongoing. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered and were being flown to NTSB headquarters Monday night for download. NTSB has 32 people investigating the accident, she said. The investigators started arriving Sunday evening and will be on scene for at least a week.

Two runways remained closed as recovery work continued.