Runway of Shame: Miami's Deadly Crash Exposes Aviation's Achilles Heel The National Transportation Safety Board's chair, Jennifer Homendy, walked away from Sunday's crash at Miami International Airport with a haunting phrase that will haunt the aviation community for weeks to come: "utter devastation.
" The Boeing 767 cargo plane careened off the runway, taking the lives of five people and leaving behind a trail of destruction.
As investigators begin to piece together what went wrong, one disturbing fact emerges: Miami's airport is woefully unprepared for such disasters.