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Runway excursions, where a landing aircraft fails to stop within the declared stopping distance available for a given configuration, sit near the top of the failure modes that commercial freight regulators track most closely.
The risk compounded Saturday afternoon at Miami International Airport when Prime Air flight 7598, a Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air, overran a diagonal runway while landing around 2 p.m.
local time, struck multiple vehicles, and caught fire. The Federal Aviation Administration imposed a full ground stop, and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue mobilized more than 60 units.
The aircraft had departed Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. County computer-aided dispatch records place the first emergency call at approximately 1:55 p.m.
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