Cargo plane crash survivor remains hospitalized, files civil lawsuit in Miami-Dade

The NBC6 South Florida News streaming channel plays local South Florida news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A survivor of the Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport was "flung into the air" and suffered multiple fractures after the jet hit the van he was sitting in, according to a new lawsuit filed Friday. Roosevelt Perdomo Torres survived the Sunday's crash but five of the other people in the van with him were killed when the plane went speeding off the runway. Torres and his wife Gladys are suing Amazon, cargo carrier 21 Air, other related entities along with Captain Joseph Carroll and First Officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina. According to the lawsuit, Torres and six others, employees of a cleaning service that works at the airport, were in the van wrapping up their eight-hour shift when the collision happened. "Just moments before impact, Mr.

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