Amazon Pauses 21 Air After Fatal Miami Crash
Amazon Pauses 21 Air After Fatal Miami Crash
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Amazon is suspending its use of 21 Air, the Miami-based cargo carrier that operated the Amazon-branded plane that crashed in Miami this month, killing five people.
The Sept. 6 flight overran the runway at Miami, Bloomberg reported. The dead were on the ground, not aboard the aircraft.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the pause on Sunday. Amazon confirmed the suspension the same day.
Timeline
An Amazon-branded freighter operated by 21 Air LLC overruns the runway on landing at Miami. Five people on the ground are killed.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is pausing operations with 21 Air. Amazon says the same day that it is suspending its use of the carrier.
Reactions
Amazon said Sunday it was suspending its use of the cargo carrier involved in the crash, according to NBC News. The company has not publicly assigned blame for the accident.
21 Air, a Miami-based contract freight operator, has not issued a public statement reported by the wire sources covering the suspension.
What's Next
Amazon has described the move as a pause, and has not said what conditions 21 Air would have to meet to resume flying Amazon freight, or how long the suspension lasts.
The cause of the Sept. 6 overrun has not been established in the reporting on the suspension.
More
Amazon does not fly its own air freight directly. It brands aircraft operated by contract carriers, and 21 Air was one of them — which is why an Amazon logo was on a plane the company did not itself operate.
The story was carried Sunday by Bloomberg, Reuters and NBC News, all crediting or matching the Journal's report.
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