5 cleaning crew workers were killed in Amazon cargo plane crash at MIA. Here's what we know about them.
Updated on: September 10, 2026 / 5:05 PM EDT / CBS/AP The five victims who were killed when an Amazon cargo plane smashed into their van were all wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at Miami International Airport when the crash happened, according to one of the victims' lawyers. Two other workers from Professional Ocean Service Corp, who, according to their website, clean both the interior and exterior of airplanes and have been doing so for 15 years at the airport, are still in the hospital in critical condition as of Wednesday following the crash on Sunday. The injured workers were identified as Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, and Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36. The plane also crashed into a Toyota Corolla driven by Eugenio Corredor, 79, who also remains in critical condition, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Rodriguez Naranjo came to the U.S. from Cuba in 2011 and worked multiple jobs for his family over the past 14 years, according to the family friend and attorney representing them, Jorge Garcia.
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The five people who were killed were identified as: Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo's wife, Yaraisi Santiso Morejon, and family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon, the plane's operator, 21 Air, and the pilots, identified as Joseph Caroll and Jaime Felipe Silva Moreno, on Wednesday morning through the law firm Morgan and Morgan.
