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Miami Plane Crash Starts Debate About Requiring a Buffer for Runways

A technology involving crushable concrete has been credited with saving nearly 500 passenger lives by helping halt planes that overshot their landings.

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An image provided by Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport showing a commuter flight stopped by an engineered materials arresting system, or EMAS, last year.
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Officials Search for Answers After Fatal Miami Airport Cargo Plane Crash

A cargo plane, operated for Amazon, plowed into two vehicles on Sunday, leaving five more injured and disrupting Labor Day weekend travel for thousands.

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Investigators are continuing to try to determine what caused the crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport.
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Vacationers Scramble After Miami Plane Crash Snarls Travel

Security lines and restaurants were largely empty as passengers digested the news and tried to frantically to rearrange travel.

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An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami’s airport on Sunday, temporarily closing the airport and disrupting hundreds of flights.
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Fatal Cargo Crash in Miami Echoed One That Killed 5 in 1997

Both crashes highlighted Miami’s role as a cargo hub to the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Smoldering wreckage of a DC-8 cargo that crashed at Miami International Airport in 1997.
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Cargo Plane Crashes at Miami Airport, Striking Vehicles

Officials said five others were injured. Flight disruptions at Miami International Airport continued on Monday morning.

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A cargo plane overran a runway after landing at Miami International Airport and crashed into vehicles on Sunday, the authorities said.
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