- Two pilots released from hospital after Amazon cargo plane overran Miami runway, struck vehicles and killed five people.
- Three others hospitalized; two in critical condition and one stable following Sunday’s accident.
- NTSB leads investigation, while Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office conducts a separate probe into the ground fatalities.
- Flight and cockpit recorders recovered; Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air for Amazon stopped about 1,300 feet past runway end.
The two pilots of an Amazon cargo plane that overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport, striking a van and killing five people, have been released from hospital, officials said Tuesday.
Three people remain hospitalized, two in critical condition and one stable, following Sunday’s accident, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said at a press conference.
Cordero-Stutz said the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was leading the investigation into the accident while the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office would conduct its own inquiry into the deaths on the ground.
NTSB chief Jennifer Homendy said Monday that officials have recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the plane, which tore through a perimeter fence and slammed into two vehicles.
The five fatalities were in a cleaning-services van struck by the plane.
Homendy said the plane came to a halt about 1,300 feet (400 meters) past the end of the paved runway surface.
Hundreds of flights were delayed at Florida’s busiest airport following the crash.
Homendy said the plane was a Boeing 767-300 built in 1994 and operated by 21 Air LLC, based in Miami and contracted to Amazon. It was on its third flight of the day, and was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
