Amazon cargo jet pilot 'told wife career is over' after Miami Airport plane crash

Amazon cargo jet pilot 'told wife career is over' after Miami Airport plane crash Investigators revealed on Tuesday the reverse thrusters were not used by pilots to slow the plane down as it overshot the runway by 400 metres, killing five people in a van nearby One of the pilots flying the Amazon cargo jet which crashed in Miami, killing five, reportedly told his wife ‘my career is over’ moments after the incident. Investigators are now probing the crash which saw an Amazon Prime plane overshoot the runway at Miami International Airport by around 400 metres on Sunday (September 6). Five people, travelling inside a van nearby, were killed when the plane crash-landed. Another five were injured. In the days after the crash, an eyewitness says he let one of the pilots use his phone to call his wife moments after the tragedy, CBS News reports. Abraham Altamar told the outlet he was working inside a nearby building and on the phone to his wife when the pilot approached him. "He was, like, shaking and, and a little injured in his forehead and his hand," Mr Altamar recalled. After the pilot said he needed to call his wife, Mr Altamar lent him his phone. "He was just, like, telling her that he was fine, 'Just tell my mom that I was in the accident, but I'm already out of the plane, that I'm good,'" Mr Altamar continued. His wife, Alexis, said the pilot was upset and said: "My career is over." The pilots were identified Tuesday as Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37. It wasn't immediately clear which pilot Altamar spoke with. Flight data suggest an Amazon cargo plane tried to abort an unsteady landing at Miami International Airport before smashing into a van and killing five people inside, according to information investigators released Tuesday (September 8). National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators will interview the pilot and co-pilot on Wednesday as they try to determine why the jet overran the runway while landing Sunday. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said they are reviewing flight data and cockpit recordings to figure out what happened in the seconds before the aircraft slammed into the van on airport property, careened through a fence and then smashed an SUV on a city street. Homendy said investigators want to talk to the pilots before releasing anything from the cockpit voice recorder about why they appeared to briefly attempt to perform a go-around to retry the landing approach before abandoning that and trying to stop the plane. She said the data showed the thrust reversers were never used to help stop the plane.