MIAMI — On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office identified the five people killed Sunday when an Amazon-branded Boeing 767-300 cargo jet operated by 21 Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport and struck ground vehicles, according to NBC News and BBC.

All five dead were inside a Ford van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a contract airline cleaning company, officials said at a Tuesday news conference:

  • Rolando Aleman, 55
  • Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53
  • Julio C Pineda, 75
  • Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53
  • Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47

Five other people were injured. Eugenio Corredor, 79, and Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, remained in critical condition; Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36, was listed as stable, NBC News reported. The two pilots — Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, and Joseph Carol, 55 — were treated and released.

“Our employees are far more than the people who work beside us each day, they are family, and they are deeply loved,” Professional Ocean Service Corp. said in a Tuesday statement, calling itself “heartbroken.” “Our hearts and prayers are with every employee and every family whose lives have been forever changed.”

Third trip of the day; NTSB still leading

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Monday the jet was on its third flight Sunday — Cincinnati to Miami, Miami to San Juan, then back to Miami — when it overran the runway on landing from San Juan, struck navigational aids, hit the cleaning van inside the airport, tore through a perimeter fence, and struck a Toyota SUV on Northwest 67th Avenue near a Tesla robotaxi staging area.

Homendy described the scene as “devastating” and said the van had been “torn apart,” per NBC News Monday coverage of her briefing.

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered. Homendy said it was too early to assign a cause; the NTSB is leading the probe. Amazon and 21 Air said they are cooperating. 21 Air CEO Keith Winters offered condolences to victims’ families on the company’s website.

“It’s an incredibly tragic incident that has occurred,” Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz told reporters Tuesday, per BBC. “One leaves their house to go to work, to visit family, to do what we normally do, without thinking that is even a possibility.”

Cause remains undetermined. For prior scene and black-box context, see our Sept. 6 overrun report and Homendy’s Monday briefing.

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