Sunday Airplane Crash Amazon almost destroyed some of Elon Musk’s latest inventions.
At least five people were killed and five others injured after the Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.
Images showed the plane coming to a stop next to a parking lot where several dozen people appeared to be standing Tesla Cybercabs.
The gold-colored robotaxis has no steering wheel or pedals and is equipped with striking gold wheel hubs. Tesla officially launched the cabs in Austin last week to much fanfare.
The launch has prompted an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to check whether Tesla followed all the rules.
As the Boeing 767 passed the end of the runway in Miami on Sunday, it appeared to hit several vehicles, but stopped short of the parking lot full of Cybercabs.
Tesla has not yet officially confirmed that it is testing or planning to roll out Cybercabs in Miami, but it has announced its robotaxis modified Tesla Model Yshave been available in the city since July. Teslarati, a Tesla blog, shared a photo of about 40 Cybercabs at Miami Airport three days before the crash.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, although Musk wrote “Weird” on X in response to a post from the financial blog Zero hedge about the presence of Cybercabs.
According to radio broadcasts from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recorded on Broadcastify, the plane crossed 67th Avenue, a nearby road, before colliding with a truck.
“We have a patient trapped,” a first responder said, according to the recordings.
The plane was operated by 21 Air, a charter airline, and had flown from Puerto Rico to Miami.
Weather data shows that there were thunderstorms and gusts of wind at the time of the crash.
It was not immediately clear Sunday how many people were on the plane or whether the dead were people on the ground.
This was the second 767 freighter crash of Amazon’s Prime Air network. In 2019, an Atlas Air freighter flying on behalf of Amazon crashed in Trinity Bay near Houston, killing the three people on board.
