NTSB data shows Amazon cargo plane was going too fast on approach before fatal crash at Miami International Airport

Newly released National Transportation Safety Board data offers a first look at the final moments before Sunday's fatal Prime Air crash, as investigators work to determine what caused it.The NTSB released transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from Prime Air Flight 7598. Aviation attorney Pablo Rojas said the data points to excessive speed during the aircraft's approach."It confirms a lot of the clues that we've seen so far that we've gotten out of the videos, at least on one dimension of this terrible tragedy, which is that the plane was coming too fast," Rojas said.According to investigators, the pilots attempted a go-around approximately 30 seconds before impact. Rojas noted that the timing of the flaps was significant."Normally you would want the flap deployment to happen at a much higher altitude, much further away from the ground," Rojas explained. "The deployment of the flaps- those are in the back of the wings- that's part of what helps the plane kind of slow down and gently approach a landing.

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