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Latest update from CBS News: More details are emerging on the Amazon cargo plane crash near the Miami International Airport that left five people dead and more injured. To stream CBS 8 on your phone, you need the CBS 8 app. Example video title will go here for this video WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are looking into why an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway Sunday at Miami International Airport, crashed into vehicles and killed at least five people. The cargo jet was arriving at the Florida airport around 2 p.m. Eastern from San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it barreled off the runway, continued traveling for roughly 1,300 feet, crossed a road where it hit two vehicles and caught fire. The cargo plane hit a Ford van owned by a professional cleaning company for airlines at the airport, said Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, at a Monday news conference.
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An engine compartment fire sent heavy flames and plumes of thick, dark smoke into the air, according to the fire department.
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Latest update from CBS News: More details are emerging on the Amazon cargo plane crash near the Miami International Airport that left five people dead and more injured. To stream CBS 8 on your phone, you need the CBS 8 app. Example video title will go here for this video WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are looking into why an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway Sunday at Miami International Airport, crashed into vehicles and killed at least five people. The cargo jet was arriving at the Florida airport around 2 p.m. Eastern from San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it barreled off the runway, continued traveling for roughly 1,300 feet, crossed a road where it hit two vehicles and caught fire. The cargo plane hit a Ford van owned by a professional cleaning company for airlines at the airport, said Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, at a Monday news conference.
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