Amazon Air cargo jet overruns Miami runway

A Boeing 767-300 flying as Amazon Air overran the runway at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, 6 September 2026. The FAA statement names it 21 Air Flight 7598, a cargo flight that left Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Miami International Airport said Prime Air flight 7598 overran the airport's diagonal runway and sat disabled at the northwest end. As of 3:00 p.m., all runways and taxiways were closed and a ground stop was in effect, with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue on scene. That is a full-field halt into a Labor Day weekend peak, not a single-runway delay.

Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told The Verge that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air had an incident while attempting to land at MIA. She said details were still being gathered and that the priority was the safety and care of everyone involved. Amazon Air is the brand on the tail, 21 Air is the certificated operator, and Amazon does not hold its own air operator certificate for these Prime Air legs. It contracts carriers such as 21 Air to fly them.

These are FAA and airport operational statements, plus a company comment and a later county casualty briefing. They are not an NTSB probable-cause report, and they are not an Amazon certificate finding.

Early coverage said injuries were unclear. Miami-Dade County officials later briefed that at least five people were killed and about five were injured, including people on the ground after the jet left the paved field. That five-dead figure is a county briefing, not an NTSB finding. The NTSB has launched an investigation and has not issued a probable cause.

ABC later reported the ground stop lifted after about three hours, with two of four runways reopened Sunday evening. The casualty count still moved through the afternoon as officials briefed.

A holiday-weekend ground stop is an operations story, closer to a physical halt such as Thailand's paused data-center projects than to product news like Waymo's new robotaxi cities or iRobot's Roomba Duo concept. Large compute buyers are already resetting delivery plans after OpenAI's data-center chief left.

If you have passengers or freight still routed through MIA on this holiday weekend, assume Sunday's full ground stop still ripples into Monday connections, rebook anything that cannot absorb a missed Miami turn, and treat 21 Air as the operator of record for any Amazon Air recovery on the San Juan to Miami lane.