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The NBC6 South Florida News streaming channel plays local South Florida news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nearly 30 years before Sunday's crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport , a similar fatal incident unfolded at the airport. Fine Air flight 101 had just taken off from MIA the afternoon of Aug. 7, 1997 when it suddenly crashed and caught fire. The crash of the cargo plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 that was headed to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killed five people, including three flight crew members and a security guard on board and a motorist on the ground.
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Federal Aviation Administration officials said the plane reach an altitude of around 600 feet before apparently stalling and crashing. The National Transportation Safety Board later determined the probable cause of the crash was an incorrect loading of cargo.
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