Nearly 30 years before Sunday’s crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport, a similar fatal incident unfolded at the airport.
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Fine Air flight 101 had just taken off from MIA the afternoon of Aug. 7, 1997 when it suddenly crashed and caught fire.
The crash of the cargo plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 that was headed to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killed five people, including three flight crew members and a security guard on board and a motorist on the ground.
Federal Aviation Administration officials said the plane reach an altitude of around 600 feet before apparently stalling and crashing.
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The National Transportation Safety Board later determined the probable cause of the crash was an incorrect loading of cargo.
Sunday’s crash happened when an Amazon cargo jet barreled off a runway after landing on a flight from Puerto Rico.
Five people were also killed in Sunday’s crash, though authorities haven’t said whether the victims were on the plane or on the ground.
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Another five people were injured, including three with critical injuries.
The cause of Sunday’s crash remains under investigation.