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An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport, killing five people and seriously injuring five more.
The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft crashed just before 14:00 regionaltime (19:00 GMT) after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flight also hit several vehicles on the ground.
Amazon statedthat it is “working closely with regionalauthorities and officials to understand exactly what happened”.
All flights were ordered grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as fire crews raced to the smoking crash site. The crash comes over Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest travel times of the year.
“At least five people have lost their lives, and five others are injured,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava statedat a news conference on Sunday evening.
She added that rescue crews arrived at the scene within “seconds” of the crash.
“Right now, our focus is on the families, those who were injured, and the ongoing response,” she continued.
Three of the five people woundedare in critical condition, statedMiami Fire Chief Raied Jadallah. The mayor statedthey were all taken to medical centerwith “unknown injuries”.
Several of the woundedwere trapped inside or under vehicles on the ground, and needed to be extricated by fire and rescue crews, statedJadallah.
Officials say it is too early to k currentlythe cause of the crash, and that it will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The federal agency, which investigates all air crashes in the US, plans to hold a news conference on Monday.
The Amazon flight operated by 21 Air, a charter firmbased in North Carolina, “overran Miami International Airport’s diagonal runway and is disabled at the northwest end of the airport,” the airport statedin a statement.
Miami Dade Fire Rescue statedcrews “arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing”.
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