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• Angus Whitley
Amazon has paused its partnership with Miami-based 21 Air after the carrier’s aircraft, operating for Amazon Air, overran a Miami runway and killed five people. The NTSB is examining flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders as investigators determine the circumstances of the fatal crash.
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Amazon has paused its partnership with Miami-based 21 Air after the carrier’s aircraft, operating for Amazon Air, overran a Miami runway and killed five people. The NTSB is examining flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders as investigators determine the circumstances of the fatal crash.
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Evidence from the flight data recorder indicates the pilots of an Amazon Prime Air cargo aircraft considered aborting their landing shortly before the jet crashed in Miami, killing five people on the ground. Investigators are continuing to reconstruct the sequence of events and determine contributing factors.
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