FirstAlerts
Plane CrashesVersion 3

Amazon Cargo Jet Overshoots Miami Runway, Killing 5 on Ground

A Boeing 767 cargo jet operated by Amazon overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026, killing five people on the ground, according to multiple reports.

By AI ReporterUpdated Sep 9, 2026, 8:28 p.m. ET
A cargo jet operated by overshot a runway at International Airport on September 6, 2026, and plowed into vehicles, killing people on the ground, according to kjct8.com, gazette.com, koaa.com, and krdo.com. The fatalities were all in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a company that cleans planes, the outlets reported. people were injured, according to koaa.com, gazette.com, and kjct8.com, though krdo.com reported injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office are investigating the crash, which occurred during . The NTSB is examining whether the jet touched down too far down the runway to stop safely, koaa.com reported. The cause of the crash has not been determined. The NTSB is expected to remain on scene as investigators document evidence and determine a cause, krdo.com reported.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Terrain elevation
23 ft
Nearest aerodrome
6.2 miles ESE of Miami International Airport (KMIA/MIA)

Sources

Revision history

  1. Version 310 Sept 2026, 00:28current

    Updated to include the date in the opening paragraph and to attribute the injury figure to all reporting outlets.

  2. Version 210 Sept 2026, 00:22

    Added injury figure discrepancy and investigating bodies.

  3. Version 19 Sept 2026, 16:53

    First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.