The widow of an airport driver killed in a deadly Amazon cargo jet crash has filed the first lawsuit in the incident, alleging "multiple, concurrent failures" led to her husband's death. Yaraisi Santiso Morejon is suing Amazon and the aviation company 21 Air, which operated the doomed flight that resulted in five fatalities, including her husband, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo.
Naranjo, 53, was driving a van carrying cleaning crew workers when Amazon Prime Air Flight 7598 overran Runway 30 at Miami International Airport and crashed into the vehicle on Sept. 7, 2026. The lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade County's 11th Judicial Circuit Court, states that the victims were airport workers and a motorist on a public road who had reason to believe they were safe.
"This disaster was not an unavoidable accident. It was the foreseeable and preventable result of multiple, concurrent failures," the suit contends. The lawsuit claims systemic failures by Amazon, 21 Air, and the pilots contributed to the crash. Specific factors cited include the operation of a 32-year-old aircraft with braking, thrust reverser, and spoiler systems under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, inadequate training, and pilot error for attempting a landing with a tailwind while failing to execute a go-around. The suit also names pilots Joseph Carroll and Jamie Felipe Silva Molina as defendants, alleging they failed to declare an emergency during the runway excursion.
"Each of these failures, standing alone, was sufficient to cause death. Together, they were catastrophic," the lawsuit stated. Attorneys for Morejon allege that the plane was traveling at 167 knots (approximately 192 mph) with only 5,000 feet of paved surface remaining on the runway, far beyond the intended touchdown area.
"We allege that this was not a freak accident, but a foreseeable and preventable disaster caused by negligence," said attorney Mike Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. "What we’ve already uncovered points to a series of failures by the people flying the plane, the companies that put it in the air and the systems that were supposed to prevent this exact kind of tragedy."
Morejon is seeking damages exceeding $50,000. In addition to the five fatalities, five other individuals were injured in the crash. Both pilots survived the incident. 
