There are “multiple patients” after a cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday, according to local fire officials.
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Video posted on social media shows an Amazon Prime Air plane, a Boeing 767, off the runway with its tail over the fence and thick black smoke rising from the aircraft.
The cargo plane overran a runway after landing at the airport around 2 p.m. ET, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to NPR. It said Flight 7598 originally took off from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA said it will investigate the crash.
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The Miami-Dade Aviation Department said in a statement that the plane overran the diagonal runway and is disabled at the northwest end of the airport. “All runways and taxiways at MIA are currently closed as of 3:00 p.m.,” the department said. The FAA on Sunday issued a ground stop on planes until 3 p.m. that was later extended until 4:30 p.m.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said there are “multiple patients” and that firefighters were working to extinguish the fire with more than 60 fire units.
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Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
