Amazon cargo plane overshoots Miami runway, crashes into vehicles and catches fire

An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane, a Boeing 767, overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, September 6, around 2:00 pm local time. The plane, which had flown from San Juan, Puerto Rico, crashed into multiple vehicles and caught fire.

Videos from the scene showed thick black smoke rising from the plane and a fire. The Miami-Dade Fire Department reported that over 60 firefighters responded to the emergency and were working to extinguish the fire and assess patients. The airport closed all its runways and taxiways due to the accident.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, there was no immediate word on casualties in the incident. The Miami-Dade Fire Department stated that multiple patients were involved, but details were not provided. The incident occurred near Perimeter Road, with residents in the area reporting hearing an explosion before seeing the column of smoke.

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