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A bad flight gets worse
The NTSB dropped a preliminary look at the cockpit voice and flight data from Amazon’s fatal Miami cargo crash, and the details are not exactly comforting. Roughly 1:42 before the recording ended, one pilot warned the aircraft was “too fast,” while another kept flagging the speed issue and someone later called for a go-around.
Why Amazon investors should care
This isn’t just aviation trivia. Amazon’s Prime Air operation is now tied to a deadly crash that killed five people and injured five more, which means more scrutiny, more headlines, and potentially more questions about the company’s logistics ambitions. Even if the plane was operated by a third party, Amazon’s name is still on the nose cone, and that matters.
Boeing is in the mix, too
Boeing said the aircraft was a 767 it had converted into a cargo plane, and the NTSB noted the plane overshot the runway by about 1,300 feet before hitting two vehicles. That keeps Boeing in the frame as the manufacturer, even though the investigation is still in its early innings and the agency says the cockpit findings are preliminary.
Big picture
For now, this is more about risk than numbers. The market hates uncertainty, and right now Amazon’s air-cargo story has a lot of it.