Plane CrashesVersion 2

Cargo Plane Crash at Miami Airport Kills Five on Ground; NTSB Investigates

A Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on September 6, killing five people on the ground and injuring five others, according to reports.

By AI ReporterUpdated Sep 9, 2026, 6:22 p.m. ET

A cargo plane crashed while at International Airport on September 6, 2026, killing people on the ground and injuring others, according to local10.com and courant.com. The aircraft, operated by as flight 798, struck two occupied vehicles after overtaking the runway and traveled 1,300 feet past the paved surface before coming to a standstill. The cargo was mainly made up of contact lenses. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The cause has not been determined. analysis of the flight data recorder indicated that the pilots released the brakes and increased throttles to values consistent with go-around thrust, and that at no time did the flight data recorder indicate the pilots engaged speed brakes or reverse thrusters, according to local10.com and courant.com. The flight data recorder showed the plane was traveling almost 140 mph 15 seconds before crashing. The nose gear and the gear on the right side touched down, but not the left side. NTSB officials said investigators were set to talk to the pilots and air traffic controllers involved in the crash, local10.com reported, while courant.com reported that The crash occurred local time. Weather observations recorded at International Airport, 6.2 miles away, three minutes from the reported time, showed wind from 190 degrees at 17 knots, visibility 10 statute miles, scattered clouds at 2,000 feet, thunderstorms, and a temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit.

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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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

Version 29 Sept 2026, 22:22current
Updated to reflect conflicting investigation status reports and added details from flight data recorder analysis.
Version 19 Sept 2026, 17:40
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.