Miami plane crash witness hears pilot say “my career is over”

By Global News

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Five people died when an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport and crashed into two vehicles on the ground just before 2 p.m. Sunday. Emergency crews responded to the scene within 30 seconds and “started putting water on the craft immediately to avoid a… bigger fire that would have spread,” Miami-Dade County Commissioner for District 6 Natalie Milian Orbi said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy described the crash scene, saying, “There's debris everywhere. The Econoline van is torn apart” — referring to a van that was hit while carrying a team from airline cleaning company Professional Ocean Service Corp. The victims of the crash have been identified as: Rolando Aleman Leon, 55, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, Julio C. Pineda, 75, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47. The two pilots of the aircraft survived, and witness Abraham Altamar said he saw a man who appeared to be a pilot who “

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