Amazon cargo pilot repeatedly warned aircraft was 'too fast' before deadly Miami crash, NTSB says

One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami last weekend, killing five people on the ground, repeatedly warned the other pilot the aircraft was "too fast" during the final approach and after touchdown, according to newly released information from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).The pilots have been identified as Capt.Joseph Carroll, 55, and First Officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, both of cargo airline 21 Air.The NTSB did not identify which pilot was making the warnings or which pilot was receiving them as they approached Miami International Airport on Sunday.The warnings continued for nearly two minutes, but the receiving pilot never gave "a consistent verbal response" to them, according to the NTSB's summary of the cockpit voice recorder.A parking lot filled with Tesla Cybercabs is seen in the foreground as the nose of a Prime Air cargo plane rests on the ground on Sept.

7, 2026, after the aircraft overran the runway and struck cars the previous day at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida.(CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP via Getty Images)AMAZON CARGO JET PILOT REPORTEDLY TOLD WIFE, 'MY CAREER IS OVER' SHORTLY AFTER DEADLY CRASHInformation from the flight data recorder shows the plane made an unstable approach in strong winds.

After touchdown, the pilots briefly tried to take off again by advancing the throttles and releasing the brakes before abandoning the maneuver about four seconds later.The cockpit voice recorder also captured a series of automated warnings, including repeated "sink rate" and "too low terrain" alerts, as the aircraft descended toward the runway.FlightRadar24 data indicates the Amazon plane first touched down nearly 5,000 feet into the airport's 9,360-foot Runway 30, leaving it with less than half the remaining runway to stop.Officials inspect an Amazon cargo plane two days after it overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on Tuesday, Sept.8, 2026, in Miami.

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