Amazon Air cargo plane overruns runway at Miami; 5 dead, 5 injured

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An Amazon Air flight from Puerto Rico overran a Miami runway, killing five and injuring five, officials said.

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An Amazon Air cargo jet from San Juan overran a runway at Miami International Airport, killing five people and injuring five more, a human tragedy that will also land in investors' field of view. Beyond the immediate loss of life, the crash exposes operational risk in Amazon's logistics backbone, where aircraft safety, fleet maintenance, and ground handling can suddenly become regulatory and insurance focal points. For a company with decent top-line growth but strained profitability, this is the sort of shock that creates real near-term costs and reputational friction without necessarily changing the long-term e-commerce and cloud thesis.