Cargo Plane Crashes at Miami Airport, Striking Vehicles

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said more than 60 units had responded to the incident.

“Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing,” the department said in a statement.

The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and landed at the Miami airport around 2 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

Kelly Nantel, a spokeswoman for Amazon, said in a statement that an “Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land” at the airport.

The crash happened during a busy Labor Day holiday weekend. The airport had more than 300 flights, outbound and inbound, that were delayed or canceled as of Sunday afternoon, according to FlightAware.com, which tracks flights. Disruptions continued into Monday morning, with at least 160 flights delayed and 65 canceled by around 11 a.m.

David Ovalle and Richard Fausset contributed reporting.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/us/plane-crash-amazon-miami-airport.html