One of the two pilots aboard the Amazon Air cargo jet that overran a runway at Miami International Airport called for a go-around just 15 seconds before the aircraft left the pavement and struck a van, killing five people on the ground, according to a cockpit voice recorder readout released by the NTSB.

The recorder, which captured more than two hours of audio, shows the crew was discussing the aircraft's speed well before the abort call. About one minute and 42 seconds before the crash, one pilot warned they were going too fast, and continued to make comments about the airplane's "excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording," the NTSB summary states.

The timeline compresses rapidly in the final half-minute. Roughly 30 seconds before impact, sounds similar to the aircraft touching down can be heard on the recording. Fifteen seconds later, one of the pilots called for the go-around. Five seconds after that call, the aircraft had already veered off the runway.

The flight, Amazon Air Flight 7598, was arriving from Puerto Rico. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the aircraft was carrying about 32,000 pounds of cargo, consisting mostly of contact lenses. When it overran the runway, it struck a Ford Econoline van owned by a company that cleans aircraft. Seven people were inside the van at the time.

The Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Narajo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47. The aircraft's two pilots were treated at a hospital and released, according to the sheriff's office.

The flight data recorder adds detail on what the aircraft itself was doing in the final seconds. At a press briefing on Tuesday, NTSB investigator Chihoon Shin said the FDR indicated the airplane was on approach when, several seconds before the recording ended, the throttles advanced to a setting consistent with go-around thrust. A few seconds later, the crew reapplied the brakes and held brake pressure until the end of the recording.

Notably, the FDR showed no indication that speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed — deceleration devices that would normally factor into a rejected landing or an overrun on the ground. The combination of a late go-around call, continued brake application, and the absence of spoiler and reverser deployment will be central questions for investigators reconstructing the crew's decision sequence in the final seconds.

The NTSB released the selected cockpit voice recorder moments the same day it expected to interview the two pilots, Homendy told reporters at an earlier press briefing. The board's Wednesday update did not include any information from those interviews.

A preliminary report is expected within the next few weeks. That document will likely formalize the timeline now emerging from the two recorders — the speed-related crew comments beginning nearly two minutes before the crash, the touchdown, the go-around call, and the five-second interval before the aircraft departed the runway.

The crash site remained an active inspection scene two days after the accident, with workers examining the aircraft and law enforcement officers walking in front of a destroyed engine, and officials inspecting the destroyed van. The five fatalities were all ground personnel in or near the vehicle, a circumstance that will likely draw attention to runway safety areas and vehicle positioning near active runway thresholds as the investigation proceeds.