Pilot raised speed concerns before Amazon cargo plane crash, NTSB says

Federal investigators said Sept. 9 that one of the pilots of the Amazon Prime Air cargo plane that overran a runway at Miami International Airport repeatedly commented about the aircraft's excessive speed during the final one minute and 42 seconds of the cockpit voice recording.

In an investigative update, the National Transportation Safety Board said there was not a consistent verbal response to the remarks about speed and that the aircraft's system announced "Too low, terrain" several times before the plane touched down. The agency did not identify which pilot made the comments.

The latest findings come as the wife of one of the victims killed in the Sept. 6 crash filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the accident was caused by multiple failures involving the two pilots aboard, aircraft operators and others connected to the flight.

Investigators have not determined the cause of the crash, which killed five people and injured five others after Amazon Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A operated by 21 Air LLC, overshot the runway and struck two vehicles. Preliminary findings from the NTSB have pointed to questions about the aircraft’s speed as it approached the runway and the crew’s handling of the landing.

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