MIAMI — Federal investigators said late Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, that flight data from Sunday’s deadly Amazon-branded Boeing 767-300 freighter overrun at Miami International Airport show the 21 Air crew briefly commanded go-around thrust after a problematic landing — and that recorded parameters show no deployment of speed brakes or thrust reversers, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, Fox News, and Aviation Week.

The jet, operating Amazon Prime Air Flight 7598 from San Juan, overran Runway 30, crossed a road, hit a cleaning-crew van and an SUV, killed five people on the ground, and injured five more. Neither pilot was seriously injured. Miami-Dade has identified the five dead as employees of Professional Ocean Service Corp., as Insanity Developing reported Tuesday.

What the FDR shows

Investigator-in-charge Chihoon Shin said the aircraft’s nose and right main gear touched down at about 158 knots ground speed. Brakes were applied roughly seven seconds later with the left main still off the pavement; the left gear touched about 11 seconds after the first bogies, at about 134 knots. Four seconds after that, brakes were released and “throttles increased to values consistent with go-around thrust,” Shin said, per Aviation Week. About four seconds later, throttles went to idle, brakes returned, and ground speed was about 117 knots — then idle thrust and braking continued until the end of the recording. Final recorded ground speed: about 65 knots.

There was “no indication in the recorded data that speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed,” Shin said.

On the 767, both main-gear bogies typically must be down to activate armed speed brakes or deploy thrust reversers; manual wheel brakes and speed brakes can still be applied by hand. Aviation Week noted ADS-B and unverified online video suggesting touchdown roughly 4,000 feet down the 9,360-foot runway — past the usual touchdown zone that often triggers an immediate go-around. Weather included a thunderstorm, shifting winds, and broken clouds.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the captain is 55 with 7,145 total flight hours and received his 767 type rating in May; the first officer is 37 with 2,655 hours and a 767 rating from April 2025. Cargo was chiefly contact lenses (~32,000 lb); no hazmat, officials said. Planned landing weight was about 231,000 lb.

“We’re interviewing the pilots [Sept. 9], and we want to hear their account of the accident before we release a readout of the cockpit voice recorder,” Homendy said. Both recorders returned high-quality data.

EMAS and the runway end

Homendy said investigators will examine the absence of an engineered material arresting system at the runway end. “Should EMAS be everywhere at every airport? That will be a key part of our investigation,” she said. Cause remains undetermined; Amazon said it will cooperate with the NTSB and coordinate with 21 Air.

For victim IDs and earlier black-box context, see our Sept. 8 identification report and prior overrun coverage.

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