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MIAMI (CNN) – New details have been revealed about the Amazon cargo plane that overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday and struck two vehicles, killing five people.
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The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary update after analyzing the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders. The new information gives investigators a closer look at what happened in the final seconds of the fatal flight.
About two minutes after the Amazon Air Boeing 767 was cleared for landing, the plane was descending toward the runway, and one of the pilots said the aircraft was going “too fast.” The pilot also “made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed.”
“While we have that data, crew accounts and crew interviews will help fill in some of the blanks for us that the crew remembers in terms of actions that they might have done but not verbalized,” Chihoon Shin, the NTSB investigator-in-charge, said.
The summary notes that several automated warnings from the ground proximity warning system were heard in the cockpit as the plane descended.
Twice, the computerized voice warned “sink rate,” alerting the pilots that the plane was dropping too fast. And five times, it warned “too low terrain,” which can mean the plane is flying too low and too fast.
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The NTSB update does not identify why certain protocols weren’t followed.
“When we analyze the full list of parameters, we’ll have a better idea of the aircraft’s performance during this landing. Was it normal? Was it not, and what was working?” Shin said.
As the plane was traveling at nearly 140 mph, one of the pilots released the brakes and moved the throttles to full takeoff power, which are the steps for a go-around.
Four seconds later, the throttles were returned to idle and the brakes were reapplied, but by then the plane was careening off the end of the runway.
An Amazon spokesperson said the company is committed to supporting families and the community impacted by the crash.
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