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Part of the McClatchy Media Network $0.99 for 1 month, renewing at 9.99 per month Already a subscriber? Sign In log in The deadly crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport evokes the memory of a Fine Air cargo plane that crashed at the edge of the airport after takeoff nearly 30 years ago. See the original Miami Herald coverage of that crash, published Aug. 7, 1997: INFERNO FROM ABOVE CRASH OF CARGO JET KILLS 4 NEAR MIAMI INTERNATIONAL TERRIFIED WORKERS, DRIVERS IN BUSY DISTRICT ARE SPARED By Manny Garcia, Arnold Markowitz and Joseph Tanfani, Miami Herald staff writers A plane loaded with nearly 88,000 pounds of pants-parts crashed after takeoff from Miami International Airport on Thursday, bounced in an open field, exploded into a fireball, fell apart, skidded across four lanes of a busy highway and a car-filled parking lot. Its nose came to rest inside a computer store.
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Fine Air Flight 101 had a flight crew of three plus a security guard aboard, airport officials said. Iโm running for my life,โ he said. โI knew I had to get to the back of the warehouses because that was my only shelter.
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