‘Too fast,’ ‘too low’ warnings called out ahead of MIA plane crash, NTSB says

The National Transportation Safety Board released transcripts of recordings Wednesday from the Amazon cargo plane that skidded off the runway at Miami International Airport, revealing repeated warnings that the plane was flying too close to the ground and too quickly just before the crash. Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Filipe Silva Molina, 37, were the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane from 21 Air, which overran the end of Runway 30 during landing on Sunday afternoon. The jet crashed into a passenger van, killing five people and injuring five others. As part of the investigation, NTSB recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the crash site and transported them to a laboratory in Washington, D.C. for analysis. The agency released a summary of some of the events captured during “the final few minutes of the recording,” with time stamps running down until the recordings cut off: 04:18: ​The flight crew checked in with the Miami airport tower and were cleared to land.

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